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Aaron Meier, 14, chose to hunt during the two latest hunting periods, E and F. There are fewer birds because some have already been taken. Often gobblers are less responsive to hunting tactics in late May, too.

It aims to pick up where Lucky's left off, with the same casual, neighborhood sports-bar feel, but with more Wisconsin flavor.

In Wisconsin and across the nation, the crisis of college affordability and student loan debt demands solutions. Turning students into modern-day indentured servants is not among them.

Paulsen, who is from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, played at UW from 1999-2003.

I can't blame the mom whose child fell into the gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo. Harambe, the 450-pound endangered gorilla, had to be shot and killed after roughly dragging the child through the enclosure. As the father of a…

ALPHARETTA, Ga. / MADISON - Alison Mann Nottage, age 57, passed on May 31, 2016, in the presence of her loving family.

PRAIRIE DU CHIEN - Donovan Allan Daentl, age 81, of Prairie du Chien, died Monday, May 30, 2016, at Crossing Rivers Medical Center, Prairie du Chien, Wis. Donovan Allan Daentl was born Nov. 17, 1934, in Waunakee. He was the…

JANESVILLE - Patrick William Ryan died on May 30, 2016, in Janesville. He was born in Madison on Oct. 8, 1955, the son of Diana and Donald Ryan.

BARABOO - Dorothy J. Ennis, age 87, died on Wednesday, June 1, 2016.

MADISON - Raymond Theodore Klettke, age 86, died on Monday, May 30, 2016, at Meriter Hospital in Madison. He was born on June 22, 1929, in Fond du Lac, the son of Theodore Klettke and Verna (Batchelder) Klettke.

BARNEVELD - Kathryn A. Fargo, age 70, of Barneveld was called home by Our Lord on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, after a courageous battle with cancer. She was at Agrace in Fitchburg and passed away peacefully with her family at…

STOUGHTON - Nancy J. Reineke, age 72, of Stoughton, passed away on Thursday, June 2, 2016, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg.

EVANSVILLE - Dr. Howard Henry Krueger, DVM, age 85, died June 1, 2016, with his family around him. He was born to Edwin H. and Helen A. (Anschuetz) Krueger on Aug. 14, 1930, in Cedarburg, Wis., where he enjoyed his…

MADISON - Philip L. Talty, age 89, died on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, at Agrace HospiceCare. He was born on Sept. 14, 1926, to Leo and Ruby (White) Talty in Green Bay.

MADISON / ROCKFORD, Ill. / BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - John Joseph Gaffney, age 76, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, in Madison. He was born on Nov. 27, 1939 in Rockford, Ill., to the late Raphael and Catherine…

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Janesville said Thursday he'll vote for Donald Trump in the fall presidential election.

Walker says he is open to increasing funding for the University of Wisconsin System, while tying the additional money to certain performance categories.

Call it baseball-tainment. It’s that unique mix of sports competition and family amusement that returns to Warner Park every summer during the Madison Mallards amateur baseball season. And it all begins again on Friday night.

It could be clear and chilly in Madison Thursday night, before rain moves into the area Friday night and sticks around into Saturday night.

Two crashes on Thursday, one on Madison's East Side and the other Downtown, left three people injured, two seriously, with one crash involving a pedestrian and car and the other a truck, motorcycle and bicycle.