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A new book edited by two Madison women offers tales of synchronicity and happenstance.

We physicians may be on the wrong side of the quit-smoking message when we follow the dictum that quitting means quitting. Cutting down doesn’t do much. New research, however, shows cutting do…

In a sure sign of spring, Canoecopia 2015 and Bike-o-Rama come to the Alliant Energy Center this weekend, with everything for paddlesports and bicyling enthusiasts.

Ever wish the royal family were a little less proper, less stuffy, less, you know, British?

CHICAGO — People often debate the merits of conference tournaments in college men’s basketball, but there is no question where this week’s Big Ten Conference tournament fell on the University …

Ramirez got his first extra-base hit of the spring, a two-run double in the first inning that sent Milwaukee past Colorado 5-3 Thursday.

CHICAGO — Vitto Brown hit the rewind button earlier this week and told a story from last summer.

Looking back on it, Matt Paape made a strong first impression when he debuted with the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team in 2011.

UW will close the regular season with a Big Ten series vs. Ohio State Friday and Saturday at the Kohl Center.

University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Mike Eaves emailed a letter to season ticket holders Thursday apologizing for something one of his assistants said last week.

M Adams of Freedom Inc. and the Young Gifted and Black Coalition and Nino Rodriguez of the MOSES Jail Taskforce argued against the jail renovations.

WAUNAKEE — The most recent time Drew Fredrickson and the Mount Horeb boys basketball team faced DeForest, they squandered a nine-point halftime lead before falling to the Norskies by one on a …

MIDDLETON — This season, Madison Memorial boys basketball coach Steve Collins grew accustomed to tight, back-and-forth games, when big shots down the stretch determined the outcomes.

INDIANAPOLIS — Road success that has been instrumental in Milwaukee’s surprising resurgence this season is suddenly elusive.

A fourth-quarter burst Thursday night lifted the Madison East boys basketball team to within one victory of a WIAA Division 1 state tournament berth.

Thursday’s results

ASHWAUBENON — Fall Creek held off a late charge from Marathon to pull out a 56-51 victory in a WIAA Division 4 state girls basketball semifinal Thursday night.

ASHWAUBENON — The chant by the Fond du Lac St. Mary’s Springs student section of “You can’t stop her” grew louder and louder as senior Kelli Schrauth proceeded to score a game-high 25 points o…

A forum pitting Mayor Paul Soglin against challenger Ald. Scott Resnick and hosted by an African-American organization Thursday night stayed largely tame and noncontroversial.

After a long winter and days of inactivity, the exercise that you get from searching the woods and valleys for sheds is welcomed by most of us.