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Andrew Loupe topped the leaderboard at 8 under when play was suspended because of darkness after a rain delay of 3½ hours earlier Thursday.

GIRLS TENNIS

The much-anticipated battle at the crowded receiver position will have to wait until next week.

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — The Madison Mallards offense has hit a major funk during the team’s final trip of the Northwoods League amateur baseball season.

MILWAUKEE — Homer Bailey struck out 11 in six scoreless innings in his third game back from Tommy John surgery in the Cincinnati Reds’ 7-4 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night.

There are 25 Wisconsin athletes competing at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

Middleton senior Alexis Thomas was eager to see how the reigning WIAA Division 1 state champion Cardinals would react in the season’s first girls golf tournament.

Defensive backs coach Jim Leonhard says he isn't concerned that the group will be a liability.

Moving dissolution of the town of Madison up from 2022 could help Madison and Fitchburg address problems in the town's economically disadvantaged areas and could expedite redevelopment of the Alliant Energy Center.

COACHES’ PICKS

MARSHALL — Marshall football coach Matt Kleinheinz likes the qualities quarterback Adam Wehking exhibits, particularly his leadership abilities.

Nancy Kavazanjian provided her position on using genetically modified organisms on her Dodge County farm in a guest column in last Sunday's State Journal. She is comfortable with growing and eating food produced with GMOs. But I am not.

It is impossible for Hillary Clinton to take away all of our guns because Barack Obama took them all away after the 2012 election. Which, of course, was impossible because he already took all of our guns away after he…

Back in February, President Barack Obama requested $1.9 billion in emergency Zika funding. Republicans felt this was too much and settled on a bill that would allocate $1.1 billion instead.

The writer of the Aug. 6 letter to the editor "How can Christians support Trump?" thought any Christian evangelicals voting for Donald Trump was reaching the “peak of Mount Hypocrisy.”

As Chris Rickert suggested in his column Tuesday, panhandlers at road intersection would disappear if drivers did not give them money.

That's the seventh lowest since 1948, though there weren't any competitive statewide elections on the ballot.

The two accelerators give business tools to companies that are just out of the box.

Sister Cecilia Carey, who served as president of Edgewood College from 1967 to 1977 and as prioress of the Sinsinawa Dominican congregation from 1977 to 1986, died Friday at the age of 94.

Record production and yields predicted for corn and soybeans in Wisconsin and nation.