Wisconsin State Journal Local News

MANKATO, Minn. — The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team has never lost a game here, so there was no panic when the Badgers trailed by a goal after one period Saturday.

Ryan Suchanek of Milton reclaimed his Guinness World Record for fastest motorcycle wheelie on ice when he was clocked at 117.5 mph Saturday on Lake Koshkonong.

Those squeals of indignation you hear echoing from one end of Madison to the other are likely occasioned by Gov. Scott Walker's proposed cuts to the University of Wisconsin System budget.

The front page of last Sunday’s paper carried a story not just about gays and not just about prisoners, but about gay prisoners. These branches of the human family are often tackled individual…

If Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-run Legislature were really honest about their motivation to drug-test food stamp and other welfare recipients as a way to remove barriers to help peopl…

Gov. Scott Walker may well wish to rethink his leadership analogy.

Contrary to Tuesday’s letter “Worry about social injustice, not climate," the science of human-caused climate change is settled. Whether we will respond to it effectively is another matter. An…

To say the state can cut $300 million from the University of Wisconsin System without affecting the quality of education and research is simply not true. Far from saving money, failing to inve…

Dean A. Brown of Fort Atkinson is this week’s You Toon winner.

The 16-year-old boy lost control of the pickup truck he was driving and struck a tree at about 3:45 a.m. Saturday on Vilas Hope Road.

Walker is acting like a bully to UW.

PLAYER OF THE GAME

HARDEEVILLE, S.C. - Leslie Ann Milsap Hustedt, age 58, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015, at her home in Hardeeville, S.C., after a valiant struggle with cancer. She was born to Douglas W. a…

SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Earl Arthur Edwards Sr., age 96, passed away peacefully on Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, in Dayton, Tenn. He was born on Oct. 19, 1918, in Upland, Kan., the son of Eithel and Arth…

MADISON - Elizabeth Jean (Russell) Davis, age 66, of Madison, Wis., passed away peacefully with her loving family by her side, on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg, a…

MADISON - Rev. Ray W.G. Bayley, age 95, passed away peacefully on Jan. 29, 2015. A Funeral service will be held at DALE HEIGHTS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 5501 University Ave., Madison, on Saturday,…

MADISON - Marvin Warren "Marv" Hohlstein, age 78, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg.

MADISON - Natalie Francis Abeyta, age 78, of Madison, passed away on Friday, Jan. 30, 2015, at home, surrounded by her family.

FENNIMORE / MIDDLETON - Shirley Batten, age 89, passed away peacefully on Jan. 19, 2015, in Jackson, Wyo., with her two daughters by her side.

MADISON - Janice "Jan" Boeger, age 69, of Madison, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, at Agrace HospiceCare.