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After the final point had been played, Jake Van Emburgh and Geri Uj approached the net, clasped hands and hugged.

Friday’s highlights

Veterans Memorial Stadium, UW-La Crosse

Minnesota’s Tyler Hanson was unsolvable for five innings, and the Madison Mallards couldn’t find enough offense to mount a comeback Friday night, falling 5-1 to the Willmar Stingers in a North…

Garrett Schreiber pitched a complete-game shutout, drove in a run and scored another as host Lodi overpowered McFarland 3-0 in a WIAA Division 2 regional final baseball game on Friday.

Madison Edgewood seniors Charlie Kirsh and Billy O’Brien picked an opportune time to put it all together.

Adam Lind hit a three-run homer among his three hits and drove in six runs to lift the Milwaukee Brewers to a 10-5 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.

Verona's Ryan Nameth finishes second and Madison La Follettee's Finn Gessner places third.

Belmont's Tucker Wedig, Boscobel's Dakota Kaufman and Cambridge's 3,200-meter relay team also bring home gold medals.

Mount Horeb's Nadia Williams wins the long jump and Edgerton's Alex Schmidt soars to the pole vault championship.

And the Milwaukee Bucks want a closer connection with Madison.

Only 21 states in the country grant patients full and direct access to the full scope of services that nurse practitioners are educated and trained to deliver.

I've read many differing opinions on how to get more women into engineering, but Raine Gardner's column from the May 24 Opinion page of the State Journal is one of the few that's gotten it right.

Monday's article "Nebraska is strangely conservative" highlighted it's unicameral legislature which "restricts parties power" and "forces lawmakers to work together." The report concludes with…

I understand the purpose of Phil Hands’ cartoon in Wednesday’s State Journal was to simultaneously highlight the past questionable practices of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. and to …

A Madison man was charged Friday with posting nude pictures of his ex-girlfriend on the Internet because he believed that she was cheating on him.

Gov. Scott Walker has a meeting next week with Mitt Romney.

Marchionni addressed the Dodgeville apparel retailer's shareholders meeting on Friday.

We have long supported the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, which provides government tuition subsidies for lower-income children in private schools. Though academically it hasn’t improved t…

Recent police shootings across involving mentally ill people have led to calls for more officers to receive the training.