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Rocco Mediate spoke of the difference between the PGA Tour Champions and the regular PGA Tour. And he didn’t have to say a word.

MILWAUKEE — When Zach Davies took the mound for his first major league start late last season, many at Miller Park might have mistaken the diminutive right-hander for one of the bat boys.

SAINT FRANCIS — OK, admit it, you were surprised as I was Thursday night when the Milwaukee Bucks chose the NBA draft’s mystery man — 7-foot stringbean Thon Maker from Australia — with the 10th overall pick.

Madison hit three home runs, but the Wisconsin Woodchucks used a 17-hit attack to hand the Mallards a 10-7 loss in a Northwoods League amateur baseball game Thursday night at Warner Park.

Monona police pursued James Culver Jr. on the Beltline, before ending the chase, police said. He was later found in a wooded area and arrested on multiple offenses, authorities said.

Also, the board approved making the change to 18-minute halves in basketball permanent.

If a motorist was driving down U.S. Highway 12 on a Sunday afternoon, he might drive over the Rock River, right into the heart of Fort Atkinson. …

It was not known if tentative charges against Laird had been dropped. Laird left the jail at about 7:45 p.m.

Life for Bo Ryan these days consists of a lot of time on the golf course.

But mall owners CBL & Associates wouldn't discuss security specifics at its properties.

Shelton Kingcade will serve up to 13 years in prison for sexually assaulting two 13-year-old girls in the 1990s, one over a period of years.

“I believe in an America always moving toward the future.”

Professional golf will make its Madison debut today when the first round of the PGA Tour Champions American Family Insurance Championship is played at University Ridge Golf Course.

MINOCQUA -- Colin Steck and Nathan Lorenz keep reeling in the titles.

Donald Trump is suggesting the United States should “seriously” consider profiling Muslims as other countries do, such as Israel. We need to remind him and his followers that America is not Israel.

I’m a veteran of a couple tours in Vietnam, mostly as a very green platoon sergeant in the Central Highlands. I can say, with absolute certainty, any civilian who wants to own and possess military-style firearms is a crackpot or…

If we accept the Madison Police Department's version of events at East Towne Mall, Genele Laird was inside the mall when her cell phone was stolen and she became very upset about it.

I don't understand.

As was earlier suggested, take the $400,000 earmarked for a study of the Madison Police Department and purchase police body cameras.

The Bernie Sanders phenomenon is not a movement.