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A Southwest Side pizza restaurant was robbed Wednesday night by an armed suspect wearing a skeleton mask on his face.

Black lives matter. Blue lives matter. All lives matter. But some lives matter more than others.

Lucille offers one of the best dinner or lunch settings in town, especially in nice weather. Bypass the pizza and focus on the cocktails, salads and appetizers.

Frank German continued to dominate Northwoods League hitters, allowing just three hits and walking one in six scoreless innings as the Madison Mallards shut out the host Kenosha Kingfish 7-0 in an amateur baseball game Wednesday night.

If you haven’t been fishing this year, now is a great time to get out and spend some priceless time on the water.

She beats Marci Dubler for her second title

Schraufnagel plans to attend Quincy University. She was a key reserve for Verona's state title team.

The credit card was used to purchase gift cards at a convenience store and had been stolen out of parked car on Madison's Southwest Side , police said.

Left-hander Josh Hader and center fielder Brett Phillips have the makings of big league starters next season.

Plans to allow city employees paid time off for youth mentoring and to expand youth employment are among the initiatives to prevent violence that Mayor Paul Soglin says will be funded in next year's city budget.

Which of the two presidential candidates would you want your children to emulate?

Many white people object strongly to the Black Lives Matter movement.

A terrible stigma exists against homeless people in Madison, and it needs to be replaced with love for them and with social programs that help people empower themselves.

Results were released Wednesday for the Marquette Law School Poll.

Five Madison residents were indicted Wednesday on charges that they used counterfeit money to make small purchases in stores and restaurants in Sauk and Dane counties in January and February.

Wisconsin judges can weigh a risk assessment test that considers gender when sentencing offenders but can't use it as the sole factor in determining a sentence's severity, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

In an era when bipartisanship is rare, the U.S. House of Representatives has taken a step toward providing more care and treatment of severely mentally ill people.

Board members of the state's troubled jobs agency would be prohibited from answering reporters' questions and limited in what information they could release to the public under a policy being proposed by the state's Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.

MADISON - Kirk R. Dyer, age 61, of Madison, Wis., rode his Harley into the sunset on July 7, 2016, after a long battle with cancer. He was preceded in death by his parents, Kimball and Jean Dyer, and is…

MADISON - Marcella Newburg, age 101, of Madison, died Monday, July 11, 2016, at Oak Park Place Assisted Living in Madison. She was born on June 21, 1915, to Anna (Cavadini) and Peter Weber on the family farm in the…