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The Florida-based restaurant chain Bonefish Grill is opening its second Wisconsin location Nov. 17 on Madison's West Side, next to Barnes & Noble.

THE VILLAGES, Fla. - Barbara M. Blassick, age 77, of The Villages, Fla., passed away on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014, after a long fight with many health issues.

ELROY - Ann Krupp, age 95, formerly of Elroy, Wis., presently residing at Midway Manor in Sauk City, Wis., passed away on Nov. 3, 2014, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg, Wis.

MADISON - Barbara Jo Townsend, age 76, passed away on Nov. 2, 2014, with her daughters by her side, following a long battle with Parkinson's Disease. Barb was born on Sept. 15, 1938, in Chili,…

MADISON - Zaki Rehani, age 90, of Madison, passed away on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, at his home. He was born on Sept. 24, 1924, in Mosul, Iraq, the son of Yousif and Munira Rehani.

WAUNAKEE - Edna Marie (Michels) Schara, age 98, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Nov. 3, 2014. She spent this last year of her long precious life at The Artisan Assisted Living and Memor…

RICHLAND CENTER - Doris Marie (Susee) Chellevold, age 95, of Richland Center, died Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, at Pine Valley Healthcare. She was born Jan. 14, 1919, in Shell Lake, Wis., the daught…

MADISON - Kenneth A. Schumacher, age 91, died on Nov. 3, 2014, in his hometown of Madison.

A Juda woman, convicted in Dane County five years ago of first-degree reckless homicide for the heroin overdose death of a man in Madison, was charged Wednesday with possessing heroin after sh…

MONONA - Audrey Terrance, who departed life on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, was born in New Orleans, and lived there until 2005 when she relocated to Monona.

The Monona-based health insurer on Wednesday said about 30 of the hires would be in Madison.

Melvin acquired Lind, who will be the Brewers' everyday first baseman, from Toronto in a trade for pitcher Marco Estrada last weekend.

Workman, a 5-foot-5 senior from Los Angeles, played in 19 matches for the Badgers this season, primarily as a server and back-row defender.

The mutiny started in West Virginia, and within four hours, Republicans had seized control of the U.S. Senate from President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party.

It's snowing Up North, but Madison is only going to get rain as cold air starts blowing in overnight.

The city already has an agreement with the village of Shorewood Hills.

After nearly 50 years as a golf rules official and advocate of the game, Madison's David Cookson has been named as the 2015 recipient of the Joe Dey Award from the United State Golf Association.

"I have no desire to," he said of talk of retirement. "I just want to catch more big bass and hunt more big deer and hear more turkeys gobble."

The Republican governor will return for a second term with broader GOP majorities in the Senate and Assembly.

Citizens for a Responsible Government and the state Government Accountability Board are asking a federal judge to let the state Supreme Court decide what type of campaign coordination is illegal.