Wisconsin State Journal Local News

OREGON - Sandy McGregor, age 76, of Oregon, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014, at his home.

MADISON - Frank A. Skonie passed away on Monday, Nov. 3, 2014. He was born on June 14, 1928, in Hofa Park, Wis., the son of John and Clara (Brusky) Skonieczy.

COLUMBUS - Carol J. Hein age 80, died on Monday, Nov. 3, 2014, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg.

WAUNAKEE - Alice A. Rocca, age 73, passed away on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014. She was born on Dec. 3, 1940, in Calumet, Mich.

Pewaukee-based M&M Office Interiors has acquired Middleton-based Paragon Business Furniture Group Nov. 1.

The Badgers play an exhibition game vs. the Rangers at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Kohl Center.

Waunakee (9-2) plays host to Slinger (9-2) at 7 p.m. Friday in a Division 2 quarterfinal.

It might be worthwhile to buy a ticket or two in the three Wisconsin Lottery jackpot games since the jackpots have grown to total more than a half-billion dollars.

Madison's Central Library had a line of voters at 7 a.m., which election officials said they hadn't seen in prior elections.

Dry weather was a rallying cry for farmers trying to get their crops in during the last week of October.

A bullet fired during a home invasion Monday night lodged into a living room wall of the East Side apartment, but nobody was injured.

Tree and grass will take precedence over bricks and mortar in the new master plan for the UW-Madison campus.

The Madison-based insurer will help study what kind of roofing shingles last longest in different climates. 

Three ramps on Madison's Beltline freeway will be closed for construction at various times this week, starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Election Day.

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If deep frying can make even a fungi grown in animal dung taste good, it can't be all that bad.

An electrical fire caused about $30,000 damage to the Near West Side apartment on Monday, with no injuries reported.

A Brodhead man and a Janesville woman were arrested Monday for the robbery of a Brodhead liquor store in October. 

A heroin pipeline from Chicago to Janesville was plugged at least temporarily, when three suspects were arrested and almost $50,000 worth of the narcotic seized by police.