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MOUNT HOREB - Paul A. Schrameyer, age 66, of Mount Horeb, Wis., passed away peacefully on Thursday, July 2, 2015, at his home from a brief battle with cancer.

BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. / MADISON - David Norman Johnson, age 84, passed away peacefully, with his wife, Anita, and children at his side, on June 27, 2015, at Agrace HospiceCare. He had been diag…

STOUGHTON - Judith A. "Judy" Anderson, age 61, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on Wednesday, July 1, 2015, at Azura in Stoughton. She was born in Stoughton on Sept. 14, 1953, t…

STOUGHTON / MADISON - Hugh C. Emerson, age 81, passed away on Monday, June 29, 2015.

MADISON - Betty McEnery, formerly of Madison, passed away on Sunday, June 28, 2015, at the Valley VNA in Neenah, where she had resided for the past nine years.

MADISON - Joan Pariza, age 72, passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, June 30, 2015, surrounded by her family after a courageous battle with cancer.

PLATTEVILLE - Roger Deane Stephenson lost his struggle against lung cancer on June 19, 2015, in Platteville, Wis. He was born on Aug. 27, 1937, in Kansas City, Mo. His parents owned a radio an…

OREGON / RHINELANDER - Audrey L. Aylesworth, age 82, of Rhinelander, formerly of Oregon, passed away on Friday, July 3, 2015, at Milestone Senior Living in Rhinelander. Funeral arrangements ar…

STOUGHTON - Robert F. Brunsell, age 92, passed away on Wednesday, July 1, 2015, unable to overcome his failing heart. He was born on Jan. 25, 1923, to H. Fredric and Elizabeth (Gault) Brunsell…

MIDDLETON - On June 29, 2015, Jack Brugger passed away from complications of living a darn good life for 93 years.

For those who lived through the fight over Monona Terrace in the early 1990s, Madison in the 1950s would have felt eerily familiar.

We have bigger worries than the new motor-trolling law. And if people like me are proven wrong, we can let this rule die when it lapses May 4, 2018.

The second president's contribution to the birth and success of our nation is on par with Washington's, and much of his advice and principles still apply today

Road construction at the intersection of Mineral Point Road and Midvale Boulevard is scheduled to begin Monday, and the city of Madison says traffic delays are possible as a result.

Janesville police say they're seeking two Janesville men accused of striking and stabbing a Madison man in a park Saturday afternoon.

A Janesville man was arrested for his 10th OWI offense after a police officer found him sleeping in a vehicle stopped in traffic, Fitchburg police said.

A fight early Saturday morning on the corner of Johnson Street and State Street resulted in stab wounds for four men, Madison police said.

Independence Day weekend in south-central Wisconsin will be sunny and warm, with highs in the 80s both Saturday and Sunday, forecasters say.

Madison police have deployed their armored vehicle 29 times since last April, according to a list of uses the department provided to the State Journal.

On the Fourth of July 200 years ago, as the United States observed the 39th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, future U.S. senator Pegel Sprague asked two rhetorica…