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LEAD, S.D. - The Lead Police Department’s decision last week to shoot a trophy deer in a residential area on the town’s northeast side has created a social media firestorm critical of the acti…

It was only two weeks ago the Rutgers football team still had hope of crashing the Big Ten party by making a run at the powers in the conference’s East Division.

Brotzman, whose starting salary will be $96,304, previously served as assistant administrator of a 400-bed nursing facility in Bridgeview, Illinois.

Hans Schneider, 87, a UW-Madison mathematics professor who led a movement that restored linear algebra to prominence, died Tuesday.  Vectors, matrices and Google are better off for his attention.

Both parties are running good candidates for various county and state offices this year.

Mitch Henck was right in his Sunday column, "Disclosure is answer to pricey campaigns."

All Christians need to go to the polls Tuesday and vote. If you are truly a Christian, you should pray and ask our Lord to guide you in deciding who to vote for.

The U.S. Supreme Court, at least temporarily, stopped the restrictive and repressive voter ID requirement for voting in Wisconsin. Now a greater number of people will be able to vote Tuesday.

I wonder how much money is being spent on the yard signs and fliers to try and get money out of politics?

Hunters often fancy themselves sportsmen, and in his column in Sunday's State Journal, Patrick Durkin tells us how it was sportsman-like for a hunter last month to bait and shoot a 780-pound b…

Mitch Henck right about discolusure

Critics of the 2010 Affordable Care Act complain it doesn’t do much to control the health care costs that are becoming unsustainable for families and businesses.

Mary Burke

Scott Walker

As an Edgerton man was dying in June from a drug overdose, two women, including his cousin, shoved him into the cab of his pickup truck and hoped that he'd recover but did not call for help, a…

Two candidates from Spring Green will face off in the Nov. 4 election for the 17th Senate District seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center.

A Madison man who was arrested last week for allegedly taking nude videos of customers at a campus-area tanning salon was charged Tuesday, but not for the tanning photos.

Madison police say they have located a weapon that led to a scare Tuesday afternoon at an elementary school.

LODI - Jean B. Kirking died on Oct. 24, 2014, in Lodi. She was born on Oct. 2, 1925, to Dennis and Ruth (Brereton) Bayles, as the youngest of five children. Cortland, Favill, Lois (Gasser) and…