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Bucks: Jason Kidd taps into inner teacher for young Milwaukee squad

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 3:45am
Kidd coaches the NBA's third-youngest squad (average age 24.2), making him part teacher and part parent.

Badgers volleyball: Taylor Morey digs in, sparks UW's defensive surge

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 3:45am
Taylor Morey isn’t really a crazed daredevil with no regard for life or limb.

Prep girls tennis: Middleton junior Kaisey Skibba named all-area singles player of the year

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 3:30am
Waunakee's Bailey Chorney and Bobbi Stricker earn all-area doubles players of the year honor; Middleton's Deke Bradley named all-area coach of the year.

Jerry Davis: First deer certificates available

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 3:05am
Hunters who kill their first deer during any season and with any implement, gun or bow, may receive a first deer certificate from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

WIAA girls volleyball: A grand career — and then some — for Lakeside Lutheran's Sam Anthon

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 3:00am
Although Lakeside Lutheran senior Sam Anthon’s athletic resume is studded with achievements, one number stands above the rest:

Outdoors: Social media explodes over deer killing

Wed, 10/29/2014 - 2:00am
LEAD, S.D. - The Lead Police Department’s decision last week to shoot a trophy deer in a residential area on the town’s northeast side has created a social media firestorm critical of the acti…

Badgers football: Rutgers eyes end to skid amid uncertain quarterback health, other worries

Tue, 10/28/2014 - 8:30pm
It was only two weeks ago the Rutgers football team still had hope of crashing the Big Ten party by making a run at the powers in the conference’s East Division.

Dane County announces new administrator for Badger Prairie Health Care Center

Tue, 10/28/2014 - 7:30pm
Brotzman, whose starting salary will be $96,304, previously served as assistant administrator of a 400-bed nursing facility in Bridgeview, Illinois.

Hans Schneider, a mathematician of the most linear kind, dies at 87

Tue, 10/28/2014 - 7:00pm
Hans Schneider, 87, a UW-Madison mathematics professor who led a movement that restored linear algebra to prominence, died Tuesday.  Vectors, matrices and Google are better off for his attention.

You can split your ticket this election -- Peg Rasch

Tue, 10/28/2014 - 6:00pm
Both parties are running good candidates for various county and state offices this year.

Mitch Henck right about discolusure -- Bill Spevacek

Tue, 10/28/2014 - 6:00pm
Mitch Henck was right in his Sunday column, "Disclosure is answer to pricey campaigns."

Christians should vote pro-life -- Tom Flanagan

Tue, 10/28/2014 - 6:00pm
All Christians need to go to the polls Tuesday and vote. If you are truly a Christian, you should pray and ask our Lord to guide you in deciding who to vote for.

Take advantage of court ruling and vote -- Robert Pulvermacher

Tue, 10/28/2014 - 6:00pm
The U.S. Supreme Court, at least temporarily, stopped the restrictive and repressive voter ID requirement for voting in Wisconsin. Now a greater number of people will be able to vote Tuesday.

Irony in getting money out of politics -- Ron Dobie

Tue, 10/28/2014 - 6:00pm
I wonder how much money is being spent on the yard signs and fliers to try and get money out of politics?

Baiting bears is not sportsman-like -- Charlie Talbert

Tue, 10/28/2014 - 6:00pm
Hunters often fancy themselves sportsmen, and in his column in Sunday's State Journal, Patrick Durkin tells us how it was sportsman-like for a hunter last month to bait and shoot a 780-pound b…

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Tue, 10/28/2014 - 6:00pm
Mitch Henck right about discolusure

Los Angeles Times: No easy way to cap health costs

Tue, 10/28/2014 - 6:00pm
Critics of the 2010 Affordable Care Act complain it doesn’t do much to control the health care costs that are becoming unsustainable for families and businesses.

I'm voting for Mary Burke -- Stephanie Lowden

Tue, 10/28/2014 - 6:00pm
Mary Burke

I'm voting for Scott Walker -- Vince Caruso

Tue, 10/28/2014 - 6:00pm
Scott Walker

Two women charged with homicide in Stoughton overdose death

Tue, 10/28/2014 - 5:30pm
As an Edgerton man was dying in June from a drug overdose, two women, including his cousin, shoved him into the cab of his pickup truck and hoped that he'd recover but did not call for help, a…

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