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Dane County has agreed to make a donation to a Monona food pantry as part of a settlement of a lawsuit over the response time to a fire that caused the death of a man in 2013.

MIDDLETON - James Norman Kosmond, born in Chicago in 1935, gently passed at Agrace HospiceCare on April 16, 2016.

WALWORTH / BOSCOBEL - Elaine Marie Jacobson, age 98, formerly of Boscobel, died peacefully on Wednesday, April 27, 2016, at Golden Years Healthcare Center in Walworth, Wis.

REEDSBURG - Elda M. Luetkens, age 92, died on Friday, April 29, 2016, at Meadow View Memory Care in Baraboo.

The Wisconsin firm, with offices in Madison, will become part of Husch Blackwell.

It might be hard to fly a kite or find a dry spot in Madison Saturday, but the weather stands to improve dramatically come Sunday and beyond.

Rep. Andre Jacque, R-De Pere, said he was knocked off the final delegate list by the state Republican Party.

History is a slow and usually undetectable process, with change happening in microscopic increments. But sometimes, you can see and feel the world changing, and we've just experienced one of those moments.

A South Side MATC campus could be a boon to that community, but some of Madison's elite want to keep the campus Downtown.

Here's how members of Wisconsin's congressional delegation voted on major issues this week.

Construction work will resume on Monday at the Highway 73 and 12/18 intersection south of Deerfield, with flagging operations handling traffic.

With so many children and families facing hunger in the out of school summertime months, a new partnership in Madison will expand the free lunch program so many more kids and adults can be served.

The Fitchburg business roasts more than a dozen varieties of coffee beans.

Cottage Grove police are investigating vandalism in the village's Community Park shelter area, in the form of graffiti sprayed on a variety of things.

The merger of AnchorBank and Old National Bank will take effect Sunday.

The party calls Nehlen's claim "incredibly misleading," saying his campaign blew a deadline to register a table for the event.

Two women in Dane County Jail were saved Thursday afternoon, one from a drug overdose and the other from an attempted suicide by hanging.

On the day that Martez Moore is to be remembered at a funeral by his loved ones, Madison Police Chief Mike Koval renewed his call for information about his death from people who were present when Moore was shot and…

A 51-year-old homeless man was knocked unconscious and suffered serious head injuries early Friday morning by a younger man who also allegedly attacked others sleeping nearby.

A one-block stretch of Highland Avenue will be closing on Tuesdays for eight weeks beginning on May 3, so work can be done on a development along University Avenue.