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The Madison Memorial girls basketball team took a shot at knocking Janesville Craig out of a share of the Big Eight Conference lead Friday night.

The Middleton boys hockey team was the decisive winner Friday night in a battle for the Big Eight Conference lead.

A man was killed when the vehicle he was driving ran off the road Friday night in the Town of Medina, according to the Dane County Sheriff's Department.

The losing margin is the largest in Mike Eaves' tenure as coach.

Indiana trailed by seven at the break, but held Milwaukee to 15 points in the third and went ahead to stay in the final period.

 All species are the same, regardless of whether they are pike, bass, walleye or panfish. Once caught, the fish stay on the ice or in a bucket. Unless the fish is tiny or short of the legal le…

Polls show Americans are optimistic for 2015. At the end of this year, we will look back and see how that optimism played out.

TAMPA, Fla. — Some could have viewed Thursday’s Outback Bowl as a glorified exhibition.

A recent letter to the editor published went on at some length to explain the writer's objection to the phrase "happy holidays." Since this is an expression that has enjoyed common usage for m…

Regarding Friday's article with U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan's reflections on his time in Congress to date, it was a smart move not to blame redistricting for him receiving such a large number of vote…

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Reports claim that two or three victims are involved in an incident in the village of Montfort.

Mark Bakken sheds CEO mantle at Nordic Consulting and opens Madison HealthX Ventures. 

A gun that wounded a 14-year-old boy in a South Side apartment last week had been passed around loaded and its trigger was pulled several times before the gun fired, according to a criminal co…

CUBA CITY - Mary Ellen Birkett, age 76, of Cuba City, Wis., died on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014, at Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque.

MADISON - Bonita M. (Meier) Doyle passed away peacefully on Dec. 30, 2014. She was born on July 2, 1935, to Joseph and Lois Meier (Hinman) in Madison.

BEAVER DAM - Geraldine M. Fouts, age 61, of Beaver Dam, died on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014.

EDGERTON - Wallace E. "Wally" Rusch, age 75, of Edgerton, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014, at Mercy Hospital in Janesville, with his loving family by his side.

WAUKESHA - Kenneth O. Redding of Waukesha died on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015, at Season's Hospice, at the age of 53. He was born on Feb. 18, 1961, in Madison, the son of Francis R. and Lillian E. …

Wisconsin visitors to New York City who toured the Big Apple on one of those double-decker open-topped buses are among 4 million sight-seers who were taken for more than that ride.