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The No. 2 Ranked Badgers take on No. 4 ranked Duke at the the Kohl Center on Wednesday. It should be an epic battle between good and the Blue Devils. 

A 72-year-old Madison man was arrested Sunday for allegedly stealing the wallet of an 80-year-old woman after she got out of her car at a gas station.

Taylor Morey is honored as defensive player of the year and Kelly Sheffield is selected coach of the year as UW dominates the Big Ten awards.

Monk's Bar & Grill and Beef Jerky Outlet to open this week followed by a Cabela's and Marcus Theatres complex in the spring.  in the s

An East Side homeowner who went outside early Monday to confront two men looking inside his car was knocked out and robbed by the suspects, police reported.

A man who appeared to have a gun in his sweatshirt robbed an East Side credit union Monday.

A 75-year-old woman at a West Side fast food restaurant allegedly had her purse stolen by three teen boys, with police finding and arresting the boys.

Monk's Bar and Grill in Sun Prairie is opening to the public at 11 a.m. Thursday.

Two out of three suspects who allegedly burglarized a Middleton jewelry store early Monday were arrested following a foot chase.

The FDIC quarterly report provides statistics for federally insured financial institutions for Sept. 30, 2014.

Weather more like winter than fall hampered field work and harvesting for many Wisconsin farmers, some saying they won't be able to get into their fields until spring.

The search has begun for the first ever vice chancellor for research and graduate education at UW-Madison.

An old contaminated gas station site in Grant County must be cleaned and made environmentally safe, according to a judgment made against the owner in a case dating back to 2000.

A game warden checking on hunters Saturday morning stopped an alleged drunken driver, with the driver getting arrested for his alleged sixth drunken driving offense.

State Journal reporters no longer shine editors' shoes. They do on occasion voluntarily pet-sit an editor's chicken.

Police say their Special Investigations Unit has been working since 2011 to turns peoples' lives around and get violent offenders off the streets.

They are especially tricky questions in Wisconsin, where getting drunk is almost the official state pastime.

"I'm hoping we can get as much better between now and the end of the season as you've seen us since the bye week (to) this point of time," defensive coordinator Dom Capers said Monday.

The anticipation for the matchup between the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team and Duke has been building ever since it was announced as the grand finale of ACC/Big Ten Challenge s…

Sy Staver is a nine-time letterwinner competing in football, basketball and baseball and has compiled a 3.82 GPA. A member of National Honor Society, Forensics club, FBLA and Student Governmen…