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A month after finishing his UW career, the Illinois native locks up a spot on Team USA for the Rio games.

Rep. Bob Gannon wants to make businesses liable for any gun-related injury that might occur in the businesses' premises if they do not allow guns on their properties.

I am a liberal control freak.

I enjoyed reading the recent story about Pet Care Connections.

Every July Fourth we celebrate Independence Day and remember the battle cry of the Boston tea partiers: “no taxation without representation.” After achieving independence we formed a representative form of government. Elected representatives such as local school boards spend our…

A recent letter writer contended, "Progressives regularly engage in hate mongering." He went on to cite his experiences 40-plus years ago coming back from military service as demonstrative of "self-righteous elitists of the progressive left."

Gov. Scott Walker's refusal to improve our roads is eerily similar to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder ignoring the water crisis in Flint.

Bill Paulus of Cottage Grove is this week’s You Toon winner.

Yet another of the world’s great cities lamentably became the setting of a terrorist attack Tuesday as gunfire and explosions erupted in Turkey at Istanbul’s main airport.

A man and a woman are dead following a crash between a car and a motorcycle Sunday in the town of Primrose.

Rachel and Michael Wilson got a crash course on Madison's Near East Side after Rachel won dinner for two at 25 East Side restaurants, or $1,250 worth of meals.

The iconic sunburst chairs first appeared on the terrace sometime during the 1930s.

PLATTEVILLE - Lois E. Jentz, 80, of Platteville, died on Tuesday, June 28, 2016, at Southwest Health Center Hospital, Platteville. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, July 6, 2016, at the LUTHERAN CHURCH OF PEACE, Platteville. Rev.…

VERONA - Monsignor Delbert L. Schmelzer, age 86, passed away on July 2, 2016. Arrangements are pending.

WISCONSIN DELLS - On July 1, 2016, Heaven welcomed an Angel. With his loving family by his side, James Joseph Van Dinter, age 86, of Wisconsin Dells, Wis., decided it was time to go Home.

ALMA CENTER - James Rankin, 80, of Alma Center, formerly of Madison, died Monday, June 27, 2016, at his home. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 5, 2016, at IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH in Alma Center. Friends…

MARSHALL - Kenneth J. Krantz, age 65, of Marshall, died on July 1, 2016, at UW Hospital in Madison of a heart attack. He was born in 1950, in Pine Bluff, Wis., to John and Clara Krantz. He married Vickie…

ARLINGTON - Lynn M. Young, age 57, passed away at home surrounded by her family, on July 3, 2016. She was born on Feb. 22, 1959, the daughter of Mareen (Gilbertson) and Wayne Bluemn. She attended Chippewa Falls High School.…

Perhaps humans are destined by dint of our primal instincts to forever fear the other, to revolt continually against living peacefully in close proximity to those whose skin is a different hue, whose language lends a different sound, whose gods…

Graffiti may be on the rise at Devil's Lake State Park, where visitors have been putting their initials on rocks since as far back as 1901.