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WORKING ON THE STEEPLE

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 4:41pm

‘No comment’ from officials is no help to the public | Jim Malewitz

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 4:30pm
As homelessness grows across Wisconsin, social service agencies are feeling a crunch. The federal government is slashing funding for tackling the problem, and state lawmakers aren’t helping much either.

Pressure of bond market has traders selling stocks

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 3:48pm
NEW YORK — Wall Street sank Tuesday as rising pressure from the bond market pulled U.S. stocks further from their records.

70-year-old man killed by stranger who broke into Mazomanie cabin

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 3:20pm
There’s no indication the two men knew each other before the suspect killed Thomas Muckler at his cabin, Sheriff Kalvin Barrett said.

Sauk County still searching for a link between Devil's Lake, Devil's Den homicides

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 3:00pm
The investigation began after tips came in from citizens and other law enforcement agencies noting the similar nature and locations of the killings.

US Space Command moving to Alabama

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 2:45pm
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado.

Native actor defied stereotypes

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 2:32pm
NEW YORK — Graham Greene, a trailblazing Indigenous actor whose long and successful career on the big and small screen included an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Kicking Bird in “Dances with Wolves,” has died. He was 73.

Madison seeks artist for State Street parking garage

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 2:05pm
The project will include public spaces within the facility, including the bus terminal, parking garage and adjacent Hawthorne Court.

McDonald's cuts prices for combos

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 1:30pm
McDonald's is cutting prices on some combo meals to woo back customers turned off by the rising costs of grabbing a fast-food meal.

3 things that stood out from Luke Fickell before Wisconsin football faces Middle Tennessee

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 12:53pm
An update on the quarterback position, the offensive line in flux and more from the Badgers football coach before the team's final game against a non-Power Conference foe this season.

Kitchen fire damages East Side apartment

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 12:20pm
Fire crews were sent to an alarm that had activated at 715 Rethke Avenue at 12:24 a.m. Tuesday, the Madison Fire Department said.

Authors tell the unknown stories of Asian chefs in the White House

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 12:16pm
“Cooking to the President’s Taste” (White House Historical Association, $45) was inspired by a fortuitous discovery.

These are some of Wisconsin’s weirdest laws

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 12:05pm
Wisconsin’s statute books are full of laws that have raised a few eyebrows or seem decades out of date.

Driver faces 2nd OWI after crash into parked car, tree on Far East Side

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 11:50am
Officers found the driver showing signs of impairment, and she was unable to complete standardized field sobriety tests.

Federal funding cut jeopardizes STEM camp for autistic kids at Vilas Zoo

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 11:46am
The cancellation of a National Insitute of Science grant was part of the federal government’s mass cuts of 1,700 research awards totaling $1.4 billion.

Parents seeking children must be interviewed

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 11:19am
McALLEN, Texas — President Donald Trump's administration started requiring parents looking to reunite with their children who crossed into the U.S. alone to show up for interviews where immigration officers might question them, according to a policy memo obtained by…

No arrests made after construction lift stolen, abandoned in Downtown Madison

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 11:10am
Officers were sent to the 500 block of West Main Street after a caller reported seeing four males driving a crane down the street, Madison police said.

Counting is not as easy it seems for some, but new book by Middleton author is designed to help

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 10:30am
Suzy Scudder, a retired elementary school teacher, is trying help young students expand their counting skills.

George Will: America has too many college students, unfilled jobs

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 7:30am
Autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (Keats), is also when too many young Americans head to college, where too many of them will study too little under the undemanding supervision of faculty who teach too little. Colleges illustrate the…

Wisconsin children sue over energy laws that make them ‘vulnerable’ to climate change

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 7:00am
The plaintiffs allege the laws harm children, as they’re “uniquely vulnerable” to climate change and will face life-long hardships due to ongoing exposure to pollution and extreme weather events.

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