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Darlington and St. Mary's Springs have combined for 37 state playoffs appearances, a 105-29 postseason record, eight state titles and eight runner-up finishes.

Some might say the most uncommon development in college men’s hockey this week can be found in a cold, snowy outpost in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Jason Kidd revealed a distrust of the Nets' front office and a desire to get past his messy departure from the franchise when he returned to Brooklyn on Wednesday as coach of the Milwaukee Bucks.

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LANCASTER — John Hoch didn’t have any secrets when he took over as coach of the Lancaster prep football team in 1982, and he hasn’t found any.

Everyone knows, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team is loaded with offensive talent.

Officially, the NCAA volleyball tournament doesn’t begin for a couple more weeks. But the University of Wisconsin and Illinois got a head start, playing a championship-quality match Wednesday …

NEW YORK — The Milwaukee Bucks overcame Brandon Knight’s shocking missed layup at the end of the first overtime to outlast the Nets 122-118 in three overtimes on Wednesday night in coach Jason…

The sophomore forward posts 25 points and 11 rebounds and the Badgers have no trouble dispatching the Phoenix at the Kohl Center.

Soglin lets city budget pass without his signature while the mayor and City Council vow a close look at capital spending.

Happy cows come from Wisconsin. Why? Cows are actually happier when it’s cold. When it’s hot they turn their noses up at food instead of eating the calories they need to produce milk or dinner.

Why has Wisconsin not adopted the Alaska model for funding? Oil companies contribute to Alaska's coffers for extracting oil.

The author of Sunday's column "Walker was right to fight public unions" has drunk the anti-union Kool-Aid. But the facts do not support his opinion.

It's time for the city to force people to remove the ice from their sidewalks. Why make people shovel sidewalks if we still allow ice on them? At least if you fall on snow a little something w…

I was pleased to see that Mayor Paul Soglin and the Madison City Council are acting to ban e-cigarettes in public. Now that we have the great scientific minds of our own elected officials safe…

A pair of armed robberies targeting State Street businesses has merchants concerned and police trying to figure out if the crimes are related.

Two men indicted in federal court last month for the robbery of a town of Lodi bank were indicted Wednesday for five other robberies in Dane and Columbia counties.

Madison's department is one of the first in Wisconsin to give naloxone to officers, according to a North Carolina health organization.

DODGEVILLE / MADISON - Barbara A. Kramer (Krapfl), nee Valdes, was born on June 14, 1934, and passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014.

BROWNTOWN - Helen L. Sarbacker, age 91, of Browntown, Wis., died on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, at the Monroe Clinic Hospital.