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Take a look at what income inequality is doing to Baltimore and dozens of cities nationwide, including Madison.

Thanks for providing David Hemenway’s guest column Sunday, "Scientists reach consensus on guns." He does a good job in showing the scientific consensus that unregulated access to guns is a dan…

In the midst of all the violence in the United States these days comes the report of the Baltimore mom who slapped her son for participating in a protest. She said, “I don’t want him to be a F…

I don't doubt at all that Gov. Scott Walker prays before making decisions.

The recent death of Freddie Gray was a terrible tragedy.

"There comes a time when people get tired." -- Martin Luther King Jr., Dec. 5, 1955

"To me it's David and Goliath," said Terry Sauer, who owns an engine rebuilding shop in Waterloo. He's a diehard racer whose father helped establish the track and whose sons also race there.

Warmer winter weather than last year's is blamed for the decrease.

Madison, Wisconsin - April, 2015 - Safe Bridge Solutions announced it has been named as one of Inavero's 2015 Best of Staffing® Client and

Joining First Weber Group as Sales Associates are: Heather Dipko, Jared Springer, Joel Swanson, and Tyler Flanagan, Fitchburg Office; Dawn Thruman, Middleton Office; Jeremiah Miller, Prairie d…

Fricano, a 6-3 redshirt freshman, will have three years of eligibility with the Tar Heels.

Madison, WI - April 16, 2015 - Brent Kimbel, a Private Wealth Advisor with Ameriprise Financial, has qualified for the company's 2014 Circle of Success annual recognition program and will be h…

STOUGHTON, Wis. (Tuesday, April 14, 2015) - Universal Acoustic & Emission Technologies' Board of Directors announces the election of Roger K. Ihne to the position of Director.

A UW-Madison student was charged Thursday with third-degree sexual assault for an incident that police said happened early Saturday at a campus dorm.

The Discover Science Channel's "How It's Made" , which airs nationwide tonight, April 30, 8 p.m., features Madison-based Bachmann Construction creating a 17,000 square foot building for Dairyl…

Bennett, the daughter of former UW men's coach Dick Bennett and an assistant at UW from 2008 to '10, was 57-93 in five seasons at NIU.

More than $50,000 worth of cash and services -- a record amount -- will be handed out to winners.

LA CROSSE - Julie Jean Overby (Keast), age 43, died unexpectedly at her home on Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Julie was born Oct. 8, 1971, in Madison, to Sandy (Nelson) Keast of Blue Mounds, and …

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Willam Russell Bechtel, born on Sept. 19, 1923, passed away on March 25, 2015. He will be memorialized on Saturday, May 2, 2015, at 2 p.m. in the JOSEPH E. HAGAN CHAPEL at J…

MADISON - James George "Jimmy" Lawrence returned to the Great Spirit on Saturday, April 18, 2015, at the age 84 years. He was born in Madison, son of George Leo and Amanda Mary (Faust) Lawrence.