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BRANDON - Robert H. Luchsinger, age 70, found peace and comfort suddenly on June 9, 2015, at his home in Brandon.

MONTICELLO - James R. Hopkins, age 93, of Monticello, formerly of Argyle, died unexpectedly on Saturday, June 13, 2015 at UW Hospital. Memorial services will be held on Tuesday, June 16, 2015,…

MIDDLETON - William S. Franken, age 72, died Saturday, June 13, 2015, in Rome, Wis. Arrangements are pending. A full obituary will follow.

COLUMBUS - Cameron Dean Kretschman, age 15, passed away peacefully, with his family by his side on Saturday, June 13, 2015, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg. A Celebration of Cameron's life …

MADISON - Laurance Larson, age 71, passed away peacefully May 28, 2015, after a courageous battle with cancer. Laurance was quite a character and had a wide variety of interests. He was a part…

SUN PRAIRIE - Madeline M . Carome, age 83, passed away at home on Friday, June 12, 2015. She was born on Dec. 19, 1931, in Milford, Conn., to James and Veronica Molyneux. She married Charles J…

SPRING GREEN/BROWN DEER - Edna M. Davies of Brown Deer passed peacefully on Thursday, June 11, 2015, at the Hospice Alliance- Hospice House in Pleasant Prairie. She was born on May 12, 1926, i…

VERONA / BLACK RIVER FALLS - James W. Steele, age 48, passed away Saturday, June 13, 2015, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg. Arrangments are pending, and a full obituary will be published Tuesday.

TOWN OF VIENNA, Wis. (AP) — A woman is in custody following an apparent homicide in south-central Wisconsin.

If you have kids you most likely have a vast surplus of toys. How do you keep toys organized? It is a daily struggle!

The Vineyards at Cambridge will include housing, a distillery and an events center designed to bring residents and tourists to the community.

Back in the ’90s, a recently-dumped friend decided the best way to soothe her broken heart was to throw herself fully into a “dirty summer.” Her break-up cure: Ill-advised coupling in a small …

First-time novelist Lucy Sanna learned a bit of surprising history that eventually would become the subject of her first novel: German prisoners of war had been dispatched to help pick cherrie…

Just Read It is a regular feature in which the State Journal seeks recommendations from authors, literary enthusiasts and experts, focused on the contributor’s particular genre of expertise.

James DeVita’s latest novel, “A Winsome Murder,” is a disturbing psychological thriller that he says was born of the “long, cold winters” of Wisconsin.

Think back to your last job search. What did you do first? Looked for listings online or in the newspaper? Responding to posted jobs is easily the most common job-search strategy, but is it effective?

Different schools of thought exist about archaeological clues about past life at and around Aztalan State Park.

Two have big plans for constructing new mosques, and the third is settling into a spacious new home on Madison's Far East Side.

Congregation Shaarei Shamayim commissioned the Torah, one of perhaps only a dozen or so in the world by a female scribe.

Republicans could fix most of the budget problems in the state if they simply accepted federal funding to expand Medicaid.