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The conga line was no longer a line, but rather a fluid knot of nearly a thousand happy children winding in and around itself throughout the aisles of the auditorium while Cyril Paul and the Calypso Monarchs played from the…

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting 10 to 16 named storms this season.

When it comes to dinosaur extinction, the working idea is what’s called the bolide impact. This is the hypothesis that a meteorite hit the Earth and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Jim Dunn of Oregon is this week’s You Toon winner.

SPRING GREEN, Wis. (AP) — Clete Ring can tell most of his story with relative calm.

Scholarships: The Thomas B. Jones and Grace Stevenson Jones Charitable Foundation awarded $74,700 in scholarships to several students in southwestern Wisconsin. Recipients from Grant County include: Casey Hines-Munson, Chantel Raimer, Montfort; Anna Johnson, Brandin Walz, Boscobel; Andrea Patterson, Bloomington; Meghan…

Matt Lennon hit a walk-off three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth to give host Reedsburg a 5-2 victory over Black Earth in a Home Talent League Northern Section baseball game Sunday afternoon.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS — Lucas Halstead already had three hits by the time the Madison Mallards catcher came to the plate with one out in the ninth inning and the go-ahead run on third base Sunday against the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters.

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The sophomore with a 275-yard drive will make his WIAA Division 1 state tournament debut Monday.

WEST WINDSOR, N.J. — The University of Wisconsin women’s lightweight four boat won the national title at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association’s national championships on Sunday at Lake Mercer.

Brewers starter Wily Peralta allows five earned runs in 4 1/3 innings.

UW-Madison students and three area mosques on Sunday held the county's first graduation for Muslim students living in the Madison area.

John Roach was 6 when his father, also named John, came home from his job at Badger Sporting Goods on State Street raving about a 17-year-old African-American boxer from Louisville, Kentucky, who had visited the store that day.

The 2015 HTL Pitcher of the Year suffered a knee injury in the off-season and may not be cleared to return until the 2016 playoffs.

At the May 2 meeting of the UW-Madison Faculty Senate, a faculty member stated the faculty did not have a union. I am writing to clear up this matter.

I realize it's a sign of the times, but the story "Janesville father, son bond over gaming" brought back memories of my bonding moments with my dad.

Rick Berg unloaded on Donald Trump in his May 29 column, “Trump deserves an F for romance.”

Last week, 20 national organizations and members of the Progressive Congressional Caucus launched “Take on Wall Street,” a campaign to hold Wall Street accountable to the people who live on Main Street.

A story on the front page of Tuesday's paper, "Great Barrier Reef coral being lost to hot water," was quick to blame catastrophic anthropogenic global warming for the decline in coral reefs. One line toward the end of the piece…