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Plans to allow city employees paid time off for youth mentoring and to expand youth employment are among the initiatives to prevent violence that Mayor Paul Soglin says will be funded in next year's city budget.

Which of the two presidential candidates would you want your children to emulate?

Many white people object strongly to the Black Lives Matter movement.

A terrible stigma exists against homeless people in Madison, and it needs to be replaced with love for them and with social programs that help people empower themselves.

Results were released Wednesday for the Marquette Law School Poll.

Five Madison residents were indicted Wednesday on charges that they used counterfeit money to make small purchases in stores and restaurants in Sauk and Dane counties in January and February.

Wisconsin judges can weigh a risk assessment test that considers gender when sentencing offenders but can't use it as the sole factor in determining a sentence's severity, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

In an era when bipartisanship is rare, the U.S. House of Representatives has taken a step toward providing more care and treatment of severely mentally ill people.

Board members of the state's troubled jobs agency would be prohibited from answering reporters' questions and limited in what information they could release to the public under a policy being proposed by the state's Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.

MADISON - Kirk R. Dyer, age 61, of Madison, Wis., rode his Harley into the sunset on July 7, 2016, after a long battle with cancer. He was preceded in death by his parents, Kimball and Jean Dyer, and is…

MADISON - Marcella Newburg, age 101, of Madison, died Monday, July 11, 2016, at Oak Park Place Assisted Living in Madison. She was born on June 21, 1915, to Anna (Cavadini) and Peter Weber on the family farm in the…

SUN CITY, Ariz. / BARABOO - Blake Lawrence, age 92, of Sun City, Ariz., formerly of Baraboo, passed away on Sunday, July 10, 2016, at home. He was born Aug. 6, 1923, in Ironton Township at home.

EVANSVILLE - David Keith Schnabel, age 58, of Evansville, Wis., passed away Monday, July 11, 2016, at Agrace HospiceCare, Madison, Wis., after a 7-month illness precipitated by a stroke. Dave was born in Anaconda, Mont., on Sept. 15, 1957, the…

EDGERTON - Wayne F. Farrington, age 83, of Edgerton, passed away on Friday, July 8, 2016, at Our House in Janesville.

FITCHBURG - Kimberly Marie Baker passed away on Wednesday, July 6, 2016. She was born on July 30, 1957, in Milwaukee, the daughter of Cynthia and Barry Nelsen. Kimberly attended Wauwatosa West High School and graduated with a Psychology Degree…

MONONA - Frank Anthony Rossi, age 85, of Monona, passed away after a battle with Parkinson's disease, on Tuesday, July 12, 2016, at UW Hospital with his loving family by his side.

MADISON - Sharon Ann (Kussow) Denissen, age 73, of Madison, passed away peacefully on July 11, 2016, following a stroke. The daughter of W. Sherman and Verna (DeRuyter) Kussow was born May 16, 1943, in Green Bay.

BLUE MOUNDS - V. Joseph "Joe" Ryan, age 86, of Blue Mounds, Wis., died on Wednesday, July 13, 2016, at Heartland Country Village in Black Earth. He was born on June 11, 1930, in Brigham Township, Wis., to Elmer and…

Pokemon Go has swept the nation and become the newest craze this week. So when Instagram user dongruibai posted a photoshopped image of Bucky Badger in the world's hottest mobile app, the University of Wisconsin's Twitter account picked up the…

He joins Joshua Ess, a defenseman from Lakeville, Minnesota; T.J. Koufis, a forward from Palatine, Illinois; and K’andre Miller, a forward/defenseman from Minnetonka, Minnesota.