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Badgers women's basketball: New coach Jonathan Tsipis makes push for recruits, including former Nebraska commit Kathleen Doyle
Doyle, the player of the year in Illinois last season, has narrowed her list to UW, Iowa, Indiana, Marquette, Vanderbilt and Nebraska.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Conservatives lie about history to exonerate conscience
This one's for John. He's a reader who took issue with my recent column arguing that conservatism has become an angry and incoherent mess.
Man asked child, 5, about school bus in Fitchburg, police say
Fitchburg police are investigating a report of a man in a car asking a 5-year-old child what school bus the child was going to use, before the man spotted an adult in the area and quickly drove away.
Prep notes: Waunakee's Nate Lorenz, Colin Steck compete at national fishing tournament
Lorenz and Steck earn 10th place at recent national high school competition in Missouri.
Roll Call: Key votes from the Wisconsin congressional delegation this week
Here's how members of Wisconsin's congressional delegation voted on major issues this week.
Grandpa didn't take 'granddaughter in trouble' bait, called Madison police instead
A 79-year-old Madison man knew a scam when he heard it this week, not going along when a caller claiming to be his granddaughter told him she was in trouble and needed money right away.
Prep football: Ryan Kleppe in line to become new Mount Horeb/Barneveld coach
Kleppe's selection still must be approved by the school board in May. He would replace Travis Rohrer, who resigned in January.
Man punched after giving candy wrapper back to tosser, Madison police say
A Madison man who told a candy wrapper tosser "I believe you dropped this" while handing the wrapper back to the tosser was knocked out for this courtesy, by a friend of the tosser.
Steve Chapman: Liberals and conservatives should reject Bernie Sanders
In the polarized environment of modern American politics, there aren't many things that liberals and conservatives agree on. But they should be able to join hands and lift their voices in unison to say, ''Bernie Sanders will not do.''
Packers: 16-0? Las Vegas oddsmakers favor Green Bay in all but one game in 2016 season
The Packers are favored in 15 of their 16 regular-season games in 2016.
Cynthia Tucker: Tubman's $20 bill moves us closer to a more perfect union
The journey toward a more perfect union was quickened with the announcement that Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, Union spy and activist for women’s suffrage, will grace the front of the $20 bill. The Tubman twenty will be unveiled in 2020, timed…
Former Marshall man arrested in Colorado for Stevens Point homicide
A former Marshall man being sought for an alleged homicide in Stevens Point in March has been arrested in Colorado.
Lawsuit: UW adviser hid link to crash from victim's daughter
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The daughter of a jogger killed in a drunken crash has filed a lawsuit against a university adviser who had been texting with the driver. The woman contends the adviser offered to counsel her in an…
Miami Herald: One foot in grave for failed Cuban revolution
The cadaverous image presented by Fidel Castro on the closing day of the Communist Party Congress in Havana mirrors the decrepit state of the Cuban government, as well as its increasingly bleak future. Like Marxist ideology, the 89-year-old Castro looked…
Girls hit by truck in stable condition; driver who hit them also hospitalized, police say
The driver, who reportedly was driving erratically earlier on Highway M and refused to stop for a Dane County deputy, kept going after striking the girls, hit other vehicles before the truck became disabled, and was taken into custody at…
Block of Downtown street closing on Monday
A one-block stretch of West Main Street in Downtown Madison will be closed on Monday so work can be done on an adjacent building.
Cop camera brings clarity to UW controversy
OUR VIEW: Rather than speculating over what happened between an officer and student, the public can see and hear for itself
Oregon weighing TIF for business relocation, hotel
Oregon officials are nearing a deal to provide tax increment financing for the village's first hotel, while an established Oregon business is seeking TIF to relocate within the village.
The salty, satisfying squeak of fried halloumi
Halloumi and I first met at a pub. The slab of salty cheese was battered, fried and served with mushy peas. Terribly British.