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The Badgers opened with double practices, focusing on fundamentals and repetitions in the morning and moving into more team work in the afternoon. Here's what stood out.

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Perkins hit his first two home runs of the season and drove in three runs in a victory for Milwaukee, which finished with a season-high 25 hits.

NEW YORK — Jeannie Seely, the soulful country music singer behind standards including “Don’t Touch Me,” died at age 85.

Her ascension solidifies liberal control of the high court for the next three years.

The 21-year-old standout sustained the injury while running the bases on a triple against the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday.

The U.S. stock market had its worst day since May on Friday after the government reported a sharp slowdown in hiring and President Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from several U.S. trading partners.

Above: Ridgewood swimmer Kira Wagner swims the butterfly portion of heat six of the women’s 100-meter individual medley preliminary Thursday in the 2025 All-City Swim Meet at Hill Farm Swim Club in Madison. Below left: Shorewood Hills’ Genevieve Hanson comes…

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WASHINGTON — U.S. hiring slowed sharply last month, the Labor Department reported Friday, as President Donald Trump’s erratic and radical trade policies paralyze businesses and raise doubts about the outlook for the world’s largest economy.

The Dane County Humane Society is reducing adoption fees during August as part of a nationwide adoption campaign.

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Former Food Network star Paula Deen announced Friday the abrupt closure of the Savannah restaurant that launched her to fame with its menu of fried chicken, banana pudding and other indulgent Southern dishes.

A woman who hit and killed a 66-year-old man and his dog with her car, while free on bail posted by “prison abolition” activists, was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison.

A jury convicted Maxwell Anderson in June of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, arson and hiding a corpse in connection with Sade Robinson's death last year.

The dog was taken to the Dane County Humane Society, Madison police said.

Although conditions have improved since Thursday, the Canadian wildfire smoke will continue to impact Wisconsin’s surface air quality over the next several days.

The incident was reported July 24 at a residential complex in the 6400 block of East Gate Road, Monona police said.

The fire was reported about 11:15 p.m. at an unspecified type of structure on Highway H in the town of Arena, Iowa County Sheriff Michael Peterson said.