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Billy Wilson singled in Michael Hull with the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning Thursday to give the Madison Memorial baseball team a 2-1 victory against visiting Verona in Big E…

Nine students involved in a sit-in on the UW-Madison campus over the issue of sweatshop labor were escorted out of Bascom Hall Thursday by UW Police.

The former Arizona State standout comes to Titletown with the 30th overall selection.

DEFOREST — From the time they all were 12 years old, this group has been playing baseball together.

The record-setting UW junior is the Badgers' first running back to go in the first round since Michael Bennett in 2001.

The Bulls finished four points away from the NBA playoff record for largest margin of victory.

After one of the most prolific seasons for a running back in college football history, Melvin Gordon will begin his professional career in San Diego.

By Monday morning, unattended personal property at the City-County Building will be relocated one block, to the corner of Pinckney and Wilson streets.

Interim director slams Gov. Scott Walker and vows the new statewide Council 32 will thrive despite recent money and membership woes.

WASHINGTON — “Wolf Hall,” the Man Booker Prize-winning historical novel about the court of Henry VIII — and most dramatically, the conflict between Thomas Cromwell and Sir Thomas More — is now…

Police said Shelton Kingcade fled from officers when they tried to arrest him Tuesday, but surrendered at the jail Thursday morning.

Sunday’s Opinion column by David Hemenway, “Scientists reach consensus on guns,” purported to prove through a poll of scientists that permissive gun laws cause increased suicides and homicides.

Take a look at what income inequality is doing to Baltimore and dozens of cities nationwide, including Madison.

Thanks for providing David Hemenway’s guest column Sunday, "Scientists reach consensus on guns." He does a good job in showing the scientific consensus that unregulated access to guns is a dan…

In the midst of all the violence in the United States these days comes the report of the Baltimore mom who slapped her son for participating in a protest. She said, “I don’t want him to be a F…

I don't doubt at all that Gov. Scott Walker prays before making decisions.

The recent death of Freddie Gray was a terrible tragedy.

"There comes a time when people get tired." -- Martin Luther King Jr., Dec. 5, 1955

"To me it's David and Goliath," said Terry Sauer, who owns an engine rebuilding shop in Waterloo. He's a diehard racer whose father helped establish the track and whose sons also race there.

Warmer winter weather than last year's is blamed for the decrease.