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After extending its winning streak to 19 games, the Janesville Craig baseball team has lost two in a row.

The sophomore clears 16 feet, 10 3/4 inches for his best outdoor effort of the season.

MILWAUKEE — Two outs away from being no hit, the Milwaukee Brewers almost pulled off a miraculous comeback Friday night.

The senior distance runner helps the Cardinals win the boys and girls combined meet at their own relay invitational.

The new voter ID law worked as intended during the April 5 primary election in Wisconsin.

I totally disagree with the April 18 letter to the editor "Target bar owners, not the bartenders" when underage patrons are served. The bar owners should be ticketed.

Increasingly, school events, youth sports, recreational leagues and similar activities have encroached on Wednesday nights and Sunday mornings -- times communities used to set apart for church activities. But now when some Middleton parents try to create time and space…

Apparently some people have lived a sheltered life because they don't know anyone who had a hard time getting a photo ID. The April 10 letter to the editor "Having ID is personal responsibility" assumed everyone has family or friends…

Recently UW-Madison provided a lesson in racial disparity, institutional racism and unconscious bias. This past year has seen racist and anti-Semitic threats, as well as verbal and physical assaults on students.

The recent large raises for the State of Wisconsin Investment Board are out of line with reality.

The start time for Saturday's game has been moved up to 11 a.m.

The Badgers fall 4-0 in the Big Ten quarterfinals.

Ionic includes a coastal investor among its financial backers.

First-quarter results were released late Thursday.

Even with an atypical start to the recruiting cycle, Greg Gard emerged satisfied with UW's two recruits in the class of 2016.

Dane County has agreed to make a donation to a Monona food pantry as part of a settlement of a lawsuit over the response time to a fire that caused the death of a man in 2013.

MIDDLETON - James Norman Kosmond, born in Chicago in 1935, gently passed at Agrace HospiceCare on April 16, 2016.

WALWORTH / BOSCOBEL - Elaine Marie Jacobson, age 98, formerly of Boscobel, died peacefully on Wednesday, April 27, 2016, at Golden Years Healthcare Center in Walworth, Wis.

REEDSBURG - Elda M. Luetkens, age 92, died on Friday, April 29, 2016, at Meadow View Memory Care in Baraboo.

The Wisconsin firm, with offices in Madison, will become part of Husch Blackwell.