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Bonnie Block recently served a five-day jail sentence in Juneau County after being arrested at a peace protest last year.

This week's recipe took honorable mention in the State Journal's casseroles category in 1979 and was submitted by Lorraine Parks of Marshall.

In news only slightly more surprising than this morning’s sunrise, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced she is running for president again.

The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey program will have a variety of representatives involved in the Stanley Cup playoffs that begin today.

The mayor of Lisle, Illinois has declared April 16 "Frank Kaminsky Day."

BASEBALL

He stands 6-foot-5 and weighs over 200 pounds, with a 38-inch vertical leap that allows him to play above the rim and a wingspan that measures nearly seven feet.

A good start continued into the second game of a doubleheader, but a six-run sixth inning derailed the University of Wisconsin softball team’s chance at a sweep of UW-Green Bay on Tuesday at G…

Rock Cates hit two home runs and drove in four runs Tuesday evening to lead the Madison West baseball team to a 17-7 victory over Madison La Follette in a Big Eight Conference game at Warner Park.

Uri Fried, 58, was charged Monday with filing a false tax return in 2009. Under a plea agreement, Fried is scheduled to plead guilty to that charge on May 22.

The Dane County Zoning and Land Committee's unanimous decision follows a consultant's recommendation that the county require Enbridge Energy to carry $25 million in pollution insurance in orde…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A defense attorney has told jurors that ALS affected the brain of a former Dane County sheriff's deputy on trial for the killings of his wife and sister-in-law.

Paul Ginsberg spent four decades on the UW-Madison campus, including 18 years as the dean of students.

Geese mate for life. They do so in the second year of their lives.

Officials are looking for a Plan B to euthanize 180,000 chickens at infected egg-laying facility after nations halt imports of poultry from all state businesses.

“I like their approach. They’ve just got to keep playing and hone in on the fundamentals and apply those in the team setting," UW coach Paul Chryst said. "It’s kind of a process. That’s called…

I have seen lots of coverage of the Tony Robinson shooting, including his family and friends saying he took hallucinogenic mushrooms on the day he was killed.

When I read that the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands had banned its staff from discussions or work related to climate change, I Googled the board to learn what it does.

I disagree with Tom Oates’ narrow analysis in his Saturday column, "Dekker right to leave."

Every year, teachers face six seasons: fall, winter, spring, summer, construction and testing.