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Lawren Lange was 21, going to art school and working three part-time jobs when a nun’s question changed her life.

MADISON, WI, December 17, 2014 - First Business Bank announced today that Alton Multhauf has been promoted to Treasury Management Officer. First Business Bank is a part of First Business Finan…

Kathy Elvert is celebrating her 15th year of service with Wilson Law Group, LLC, a Madison based estate and business planning law firm. Kathy is the firm's senior paralegal and manages the est…

For those willing to keep their knee jerking in check, there may be things worth learning -- and celebrating -- in this officer-involved-shooting-that-wasn’t.

As Christians celebrate the birth of Christ, pastors offer thoughts on the religious significance.

Gloria Reyes brings her commitment to the city of Madison and her connections to the community to her new role as assistant to the mayor. 

Hear Madison Youth Choirs' most advanced singers perform "The Holly and the Ivy."

As if the linemen needed any more motivation to protect the quarterback from the fearsome defensive front of the Detroit Lions on Sunday.

GREEN BAY — Of all the low down dirty tricks the Detroit Lions have tried hoping to snap their 23-game losing streak on Wisconsin soil, the latest one might be the lowest.

Bobbie Kelsey knew her University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team would have a challenge as it tried to climb a rung or two on the Big Ten Conference ladder this season.

For a while, Barry Alvarez’s family Christmas dinner over the weekend felt like any other year.

I always dreamed of becoming a professional cartoonist. I distinctly remember looking at a “Calvin and Hobbes” book and thinking that drawing cartoons looked like an easy way to make lots of money.

Beverly "Bev" Dunn Philumalee, who ran the diner Bev's Restaurant and embodied the East Side, died on Dec. 21. She was 83.

2013-14 IN REVIEW

A final decision on leveling tariffs on Chinese makers of trucking containers is due in the first half of 2015.

PHOENIX, Ariz. - Larose, age 83, died at 9:15 a.m. on Dec. 22, 2014, at her granddaughter's home in Scottsdale, Ariz., after a long bout with lung cancer.

DELAVAN - Delores M. Murphy, age 80, of Delavan, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg.

MADISON - Wilma Ginder, age 97, passed away on Dec. 23, 2014, at Wynwood Assisted Living Facility.

FITCHBURG - Thomas Edwin Hamilton, age 77, of Madison, died on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg.

The weather forecast might be giving us a Christmas present in Madison that everyone can enjoy: sunshine.