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MIDDLETON - Maynard Charles "Bumpa" Carpenter, age 79, passed away on Sunday, April 12, 2015, at Agrace HospiceCare, Fitchburg, after a bout with cancer.

PLATTEVILLE - Francis W. "Ed" Abing, age 92, of Platteville, died on Monday, April 13, 2015, at Lancaster Care Center, Lancaster, Wis.

MADISON - Mary Jane Bull, age 69, of Madison, passed away on Monday, April 13, 2015, at St. Mary's Hospital. She was born on July 2, 1945, in Milwaukee, the daughter of Edward and Mary (Bruske) Bull.

The Madison area's lead economic development agency on Tuesday came out against Gov. Scott Walker's proposed $300 million budget cut to the University of Wisconsin System.

The suit alleges the district is continuing to honor illegal labor contracts negotiated after the enactment of Act 10, Gov. Scott Walker's signature legislation that significantly reduced coll…

Traffic was stopped and diverted on East Washington Avenue beginning at 10:30 a.m. as East High School students gathered on the street in front of the school's front doors. 

A Wausau woman who received a kidney transplant last month at UW Hospital was part of the longest kidney transplant chain ever completed, hospital officials said Tuesday.

GadellNet says it plans to add 15 jobs in Wisconsin.

A mall spokeswoman said there will be a big announcement soon regarding a new tenant.

A lawyer for former Dane County sheriff's deputy Andrew Steele, who shot and killed his wife and her sister in August, told jurors Tuesday to follow the science shown to them to find that Stee…

Tiffany Zander has opened The Salt Room at 202 S. Century Ave. in Waunakee.

UW-Madison and its affiliated UW Hospital and Clinics has an economic impact of $12 billion, supporting 158,350 jobs and generating $687.9 million in state tax revenue.

Maybe this is why state treasurer Matt Adamczyk is pushing for changes to an agency that have little to do with the agency’s work: He’s bored.

SUN PRAIRIE — Some things never change. But Sun Prairie coach Rob Hamilton refuses to take anything for granted.

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First impressions, second thoughts and the third degree:

Hannah Owens is a seven-time letterwinner competing in cross country and track field and has compiled a 4.012 GPA. A member of National Honor Society, Key Club, Forensics, and World Cultures C…

Ryan Nameth is a seven-time letterwinner competing in cross country and track field and has compiled a 3.5 GPA. Employed as a Lifeguard at Verona Area Natatorium, he also works at Berkeley Run…

Jackson Eversoll shot a 4-over-par 75 on Monday at Stoughton Country Club to lead the McFarland boys golf team to the championship of the 14-team Stoughton Invitational.

The guard has a superb game in the city where he earned rookie of the year honors last season.