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CRANDON / McFARLAND - Nancy Ann Roder (nee Hughes) (Weiss), age 81, died peacefully at AGI Healthcare in Crandon, Wis., on April 13, 2015.

MERRIMAC - Harry W. Larsen, Jr., age 81, of Merrimac passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, at Select Specialty Hospital in Madison. He was born on Aug. 20, 1933, in Chicago, Ill.,…

COLUMBUS / VERONA - Sandra Harrison Columbus, age 57, died peacefully at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg, surrounded by family on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, from reoccurring cervical cancer whic…

SAUK CITY - How do you sum up a life in a few short paragraphs? "The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they must be felt with the heart" ~ Helen Keller. Mom will fo…

Walker recently visited New Hampshire and South Carolina and his poll numbers in those states have since increased.

Three YouTube videos show how Madison police broke up a protest that had shut down traffic on E. Washington Ave. for eight hours on Tuesday.

Two men have been arrested in the murder of Jacob Payne, whose body was found by a canoeist on Saturday off of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota.

Jurors at the insanity trial of former Dane County Sheriff's Deputy Andrew Steele were read and shown a note Wednesday that Steele composed on his phone, which appears to detail what could be …

WASHINGTON -- Give credit to Republicans in Congress.

Whitewater went 45-0 and won three Division III national championships during Blanchard's time at the school.

Home purchases were up 18 percent over March 2014, while median price rose 6.3 percent to $220,000.

The Republican co-chairs of the Joint Finance Committee on Wednesday announced that they were removing the proposal from the budget.

Wausau-based Aspirus and Marshfield Clinic Health System plan to collaborate on hospital projects in Wisconsin Rapids and the Eau Claire area.

A Rock County man previously arrested on child pornography and exploitation charges now faces 69 new counts of child pornography after detectives finished reviewing evidence seized from his home.

Designated sex offenders can no longer live within 1,000 feet of where children congregate in the town of Cottage Grove.

Amid a constant parade of new beers, don't overlook the classics like this schwarzbier that turns 30 this year.

The versatile vegetable has a unique growing method that was discovered by accident. 

Every now and then one of my columns simply becomes a medley of recipes waiting to be shared by me. The dictionary would casually refer to it as “hodge-podge” and that’s exactly what today’s c…

Madison’s ride-sharing rules are too late and strict.

In 1876, Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward G. Ryan wrote that anything that interfered with women's “sacred duties” were “departures from the order of nature [and] treason against it.”