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Big cheers for the U.S. Justice Department crackdown on alleged corruption in FIFA, soccer’s international governing body.

We were in Des Moines, Iowa, for our granddaughter’s graduation on Memorial Day weekend, but many high school kids in our motel had come to town for the state track meet.

When I first moved to Madison I was very impressed with the police. I felt very safe and comfortable around them. Until lately.

May is Asthma Awareness Month. As someone who has a sister with asthma, I’m doing my part to raise awareness about a major trigger for asthma attacks: secondhand smoke.

The other day I came out of a grocery store rolling my full cart and mentally checking off another errand finished. 

If the GOP wants to move state offices out of Dane County, they should look for office space in Iowa. I'm sure it's cheaper there, and that's where the governor spends his time these days.

A provision in Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget to cap Wisconsin’s highly successful historic tax credit program would cripple a vital redevelopment tool that is turning around commun…

Isomark says its breathalyzer, touted for early identification of infections, can also sense if you are in weight-gain mode.

Also, the likely 2016 GOP presidential candidate suggested he won't seek votes in Florida and accused the media of WDS.

MOUNT HOREB - Richard F. Walker, age 88, of Mount Horeb, died on Thursday, May 28, 2015, at Ingleside Nursing Home. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Ellestad Camacho Funeral Home, 500 N…

REEDSBURG - Hazel E. "Peg" Grote, age 103, of Reedsburg, died on Thursday, May 28, 2015. She was a resident at Our House Senior Living for the past 13 years.

BARABOO - Clarence H. Schellenberger, age 103, of Baraboo, passed away on Friday, May 29, 2015, at Maplewood of Sauk City.

BLOOMGINTON - Betty Lou Mergen, age 83, of Bloomington, passed away very unexpectedly on Thursday, May 28, 2015, at the Gunderson Health Center in La Crosse. She was born on Sept. 2, 1931, the…

MADISON - Teresa Glaye Zais, age 53, died surrounded by love and family on Friday, May 29, 2015, from lung cancer.

EVANSVILLE - Jerrald L. Zweifel, age 68, of Evansville, passed away on Thursday, May 28, 2015, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg. Jerry was born on Sept. 22, 1946, to Wilbert and Velma (Smith…

BLAIR / MILWAUKEE - Mary H. Gohs, age 92, of Blair, Wis., formerly of Milwaukee, Wis., passed away Sunday, May 24, 2105, at Grand View Care Center, Blair.

Independent charter schools could be created in Milwaukee and Madison. 

Wisconsin lawmakers cut conservation spending by $88 million. Walker wanted a moratorium on stewardship land buys.

That corruption is at the top ranks of FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, is about as shocking as Capt. Louis Renault’s discovery of gambling at Rick’s cafe in “Casablanca.” That the legal a…

When speaking at the National Deer Alliance “summit meetings” in Louisville in early May, biologist Gary Alt wondered rhetorically if deer would still be on the landscape in two centuries.