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A 41-year-old Madison man suffered minor injuries Saturday night after crashing his motorcycle on the city's East Side, following a road rage incident in which he allegedly pulled a gun.

British vote attests from afar that the sentiment for protest is rising, if not raging

A man found bleeding from his head early Friday morning on Madison's Near West Side might have been assaulted, police said.

Summer school classes and other activities were canceled at Sun Prairie High School on Monday, after a suspicious package was placed near the main doors.

Henningsen chose the Badgers over scholarship offers from Northern Illinois, Illinois State, Buffalo, Western Illinois, North Dakota and South Dakota.

A one-block stretch of West Main Street in Downtown Madison will be closed on Wednesday for ongoing construction work at a hotel.

Beloit police were busy with gun incidents Friday night, answering three calls involving guns, including shots fired near a park, a man overdosing on prescription drugs and an alleged drunken man in a domestic fight.

Lodi police have identified the suspect in Thursday's bank robbery as a Lodi man who has been convicted of several thefts in the past, court records show.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down Texas's restrictions on abortion clinics, which could have implications in Wisconsin where Republican lawmakers have replicated such regulations.

The House speaker in showing leadership that's less partisan and more knowledgeable

A pickup truck slowing for motorcycles was rear-ended by a second pickup truck Saturday in Lafayette County, with a motorcycle ending up in a ditch to avoid a head-on collision.

A Janesville man was attacked by a man wielding a machete Friday night, after an argument between the two men.

The Highway N bridge over I-94 near Johnson Creek is closed so the bridge deck can be replaced, with the work expected to be completed in October.

Two men were shot early Monday morning by a masked man who got into a struggle with the men on Madison's South Side, authorities reported.

UW-Madison will not have to change its affirmative action policies after the Supreme Court last week rejected a challenge to the use of race in college admissions, officials said.

Cologuard, the colorectal cancer screening test by Madison-based Exact Sciences, got a boost this month when a prominent task force dropped its “alternative” designation for the test and recommended it with other tests.

Last year I wrote a column about our old riding lawn mower and how it served us well, though it clattered near death. I now regret to report the clatter may have become a death rattle.

Fireworks’ colors come from salt. Different salts produce different colors.

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