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MADISON - Jeanette Winifred (Thompson) Denu, age 88, passed away peacefully in her sleep Monday, June 20, 2016.

MADISON - Dorothy Lewandowski, age 92, passed away on Sunday, June 19, 2016. She was born on March 16, 1924, in Milwaukee, the daughter of Julius and Cecelia Gapinski. Dorothy was united in marriage to Stanley Lewandowski on June 14,…

DEFOREST / POYNETTE - Victor S. Schuster, age 91, of DeForest and formerly of Poynette, died peacefully at home on June 20, 2016.

WINDSOR / DEFOREST - On Sunday, June 19, 2016, Gail Ann (Harvey) Kempfer unexpectedly exchanged her earthly home for a heavenly one, and quietly slipped away.

NEW GLARUS - Iona Doris Aebly, age 95, of New Glarus, passed away on Monday, June 20, 2016, at the Glarner Lodge in New Glarus.

BELLEVILLE - Philip H. Johnson, age 79, of rural Belleville, passed away on Monday, June 20, 2016. Arrangements are pending with the Becker-Beal Funeral Home of Belleville. A full obituary will run in the Sunday edition of paper.

A warm front coming through southern Wisconsin could produce severe weather beginning early Wednesday morning, with some storms possibly reaching the severe to tornado stages.

Two men allegedly transporting heroin from Madison to their home in Cazenovia were arrested on Friday while driving in Sauk County.

It's a stinky job, but thank heaven somebody's going to do it.

Everything you need to know about tickets, TV, parking and the tournament schedule for the American Family Insurance Championship.

The sausage company paid employees to do service work and go to school after a fire destroyed the Johnsonville plant in May 2015.

Why did the turtle cross the road?Well, if you see one risking that journey from late May through early July in Wisconsin, you’ll have little trouble finding the answer.

CHICAGO — A suburban Milwaukee city won a hard-fought battle Tuesday to draw its drinking water from Lake Michigan, a key test of a regional compact designed to safeguard the Great Lakes region's abundant but vulnerable fresh water supply.

WATERTOWN — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he agrees that delegates to the Republican national convention should be free to vote their conscience, even if that means not supporting presumptive nominee Donald Trump.

The powerful nose of police dog Frees led Madison police to a kitchen knife allegedly used by a 12-year-old boy to stab a 12-year-old boy during a fight Monday on the city's Southwest Side.

Full-time teacher salaries declined by an average of about $2,000 since Gov. Scott Walker signed Act 10, restricting collective bargaining rights for most public employees, according to a study from a conservative legal group.

The rich are getting richer in Wisconsin, and that's not good news for the rest of the state, according to a report released on Tuesday.

Wild black raspberries, a.k.a. blackcaps, are ahead of schedule phenologically if one measures a Fourth of July pie as the marker.

The Dane County narcotics task force investigating heroin dealing in the area arrested three men Monday afternoon after pulling their car over on Madison's North Side.

An Oregon man stopped for speeding and following too closely on Monday was arrested for his alleged fourth drunken driving offense.