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Katie Meriggioli sparked a mid-game run that carried Madison Edgewood to a 49-31 victory over host Monroe in a Badger South Conference girls basketball game on Tuesday night.

COLUMBUS – Poynette boys basketball coach John Weiss brought a team loaded with scoring punch to Columbus on Tuesday night.

MIAMI — Jason Kidd’s wins against Miami keep piling up.

The United Way of Dane County will spend $6.8 million for education, $6.4 million for anti-poverty programs and $4.9 million for health-related initiatives.

Trail-cams today shoot full-color video and high-resolution digital photos up to 20 megabytes in size. They’re stored on computers and catalogued for fast retrieval and viewing. 

One good location to take the kids in southern Wisconsin is Brittingham Park in downtown Madison’s Triangle area.

While the green-and-gold flu epidemic spread throughout Packer Nation last week, everyone was pointing fingers as to where to direct the blame for the meltdown. It seemed like everyone was wea…

Realizing Gov. Scott Walker is no friend to education, I braced myself for cuts to the University of Wisconsin System, especially given the Walker regime’s deficit problem. I would have guesse…

Online job applications have their good points and their bad points.

It would be interesting to know how many UW-Madison athletes specifically choose UW because of its high academic standards, not in spite of them. Most athletes will not have a lucrative profes…

Finally, I agree with Gov. Scott Walker on something. Last week he nixed plans for another casino in Wisconsin. I don't think our desire for jobs should be based on an industry that supports g…

The Koch brothers must be having second thoughts about their investments in Gov. Scott Walker. His refusal to allow the Menominee Nation a casino in Kenosha does not square with the principles…

All of the perseverating over voter ID laws discount one thing: It is hard enough to get people to vote once, much less twice.

The Madison-based insurer's regional TV buy, bolstered by social media, reflects a Super Bowl trend this year. 

A man who was arrested last week after police said he robbed a bank in Monona told police that he did not commit the robbery, and that the money he was carrying belonged to him.

The first Wisconsin outlet of a Texas-based burger chain plans to open in Fitchburg by mid-April.  

A former computer repair contractor was charged Tuesday with stealing as many as 17 laptop computers from the state Department of Workforce Development and selling them to support a heroin addiction.

If the tests aren't funded during the budget process this year, the state would have less than a year to roll out a new test by the following spring to remain in compliance with federal law. 

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MCFARLAND - Jeffrey Dean Herold, age 54, of McFarland, passed away unexpectedly in his sleep on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, at his home.