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One of Wisconsin’s most under-fished rivers is the Lower Wisconsin River, which flows from the cities of Sauk City and Prairie du Sac and runs 90 miles to its convergence with the Mississippi …

Chad Herbst hit a walk-off home run Monday to give the McFarland baseball team a 5-4 victory over visiting Monona Grove in non-conference play.

MILWAUKEE — Following a turbulent day, the Milwaukee Brewers gave new manager Craig Counsell a Hollywood ending at Miller Park.

MILWAUKEE — Ron Roenicke may have taken the fall but ultimately it was the players’ performance that put the Brewers in a 7-18 hole to start the season.

MILWAUKEE -- Now that the speculation about Ron Roenicke is over, the speculation about Doug Melvin can begin.

Why are there such problems in our community with our police and black men?

I have been a proud supporting member of Citizens' Utility Board for years, and I can't think of a more efficient, practical and citizen-supporting way to use my funds. Their newsletter is ful…

"Black lives matter" is the chant heard across the nation at the protests. One of the best ways the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition can make this message heard in Wisconsin is by making sure…

Thanks to our dear lawmakers, Wisconsin will soon have a 70 mph speed limit on freeways.

The mayor asks managers to offer proposed 2016 budgets and five year plans with 10 percent cuts

A third commercial chicken facility in Jefferson County and a fifth commercial turkey facility in Barron County learned Monday that they were infected with the virus.

A Madison man who head-butted another man as he tried to separate him from a woman who did not want his attention pleaded guilty Monday to battery and disorderly conduct charges and was placed…

The Wisconsin governor, in neighboring Michigan for the first time since forming a political committee to bolster his likely run, said he cut taxes by $2 billion over four years in Wisconsin t…

A Fall River man who ran a stop sign and crashed into another vehicle pleaded guilty Monday to a homicide charge for killing a passenger in his car.

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JEFFERSON - Debra Ann Herbst, age 61, of Jefferson, passed away Friday, May 1, 2015, while under hospice care at the Memory Care Center in Jefferson. She was born on Nov. 5, 1953, in Portage, …

LIVINGSTON - Bernice M. Orton, age 102, of Livingston, died on Saturday evening, May 2, 2015, at Upland Hills Nursing and Rehab Center in Dodgeville. Bernice was born on Sept. 5, 1912 in Beeto…

EDGERTON - Rae Eugene Spirra, age 82, of Edgerton, passed away on Friday, May 1, 2015, at LifeCare Hospitals, in Pewaukee. Rae was born on May 8, 1932, in the town of Nepeuskun, the son of the…

STOUGHTON - Richard F. Meier, age 85, passed away Sunday, May 3, 2015, at the Skaalen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center with his daughters at his side. He was born on Nov. 28, 1929, in Beaver …

COLUMBUS/DEFOREST - Rex Williams, age 87, passed away with family by his side on Saturday, May 2, 2015, at his home. He was born on Feb.4, 1928, in the Mount Hope/Cassville area to Harold and …