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Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is coming to Wisconsin to host a town hall meeting in Madison.

Some estimates find the stroke rate has declined 70 percent because doctors are aggressively treating high blood pressure.

On humanity’s irrational fear spectrum, animals performing targeted attacks on us isn’t at the top of the terrified-it-will-happen end of the range, but it’s probably close. Likely it falls so…

Let’s Eat Out!, an organization dedicated to bringing food carts in Madison to locations beyond Downtown, sponsors a Summer Concert Series from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at Burr Jones Field, 18…

David "The Bullet" Smith expects to make a splash Saturday when he rockets into Lake Monona.

A liability dispute between the town of Middleton and landowners could prevent a large land donation to the Ice Age Trail.

"Finders Keepers" by Stephen King tops this week's fiction list.

KENOSHA — Josh Serio had his only so-so outing of the Northwoods League season the previous time he started against the Madison Mallards.

Already stacked at the UW standout's forward position, Milwaukee needed to add some shooting ability, which the young guard from UNLV ought to provide.

The senior center goes No. 9 to Charlotte, while the junior forward lands in Houston at No. 18.

Lodi senior Adam Miller’s high hopes for the boys golf season took an unexpected turn when he twisted his knee playing pickup basketball this spring and ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament.

WASHINGTON — After a massacre like the one at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, our immediate reaction is to do something. Something, for politicians, means legislation. And for Democratic pol…

On a one-year trial basis, varsity games will consist of two halves of 18 minutes, not four quarters of eight minutes.

On a one-year trial basis, varsity games will consist of two halves of 18 minutes, not four quarters of eight minutes.

The right-hander strikes out seven and walks none in the eighth straight start in which he has given up two earned runs or fewer.

The Tuesday letter "Incompetence runs amok in government" complained about the federal government, and the author is right to spare local government from such harsh criticism. My experience wi…

The Islamic State is the epitome of evil and must be destroyed as soon as possible for this world as we know it to have any chance of a brighter future. They are a cancer that is spreading rap…

The two companies have agreed to work together to find potential cancer fighting drugs. 

MIDDLETON - Ruth Lorene Shaffer, age 74, died June 24, 2015. After a long journey with cancer, she left us as she lived, with grace and dignity.

CLINTON - Ada "Jean" Boudreau, age 68, of Clinton, Wis., died Wednesday, June 24, 2015, surrounded by her loving family. She was born Feb. 16, 1947, to the late Eugene and Florence (Graves) Sc…