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Jim Caruso is the third CEO in four years at the Madison company developing cancer-fighting drugs.

The Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of gay marriage was a landmark in the expansion of rights, power and moral legitimacy to a previously marginalized group.

Garrett Wartenweiler of the 10-year-old local band The Family Business is honored his band is up for best “rock performer” at this year’s upcoming Madison Area Music Awards. But he isn’t big o…

The Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday to allow nearly a dozen Texas abortion clinics to stay open while it considers whether to review an onerous new anti-abortion law was not just a welcome co…

OK. Let’s say that you’re a young gay guy who wants some anonymous sex. Do you go to a bar looking to pick someone up? Go online? Or maybe one of the new smartphone pick-up apps?

Stuffy nose? Itchy eyes? Mucus going down the back of the throat? If you’re prone to wheezing, perhaps you’re experiencing a wheeze or two? Or three? Or four? Or maybe you’re just tired and mi…

Area festivals mark Independence Day.

It started, as might be expected, as an idea dreamed up at a bar. “You know what would be awesome?” a 2012 article in The Atlantic describes a Discovery Channel exec saying in 1988. “Shark Week.”

Developer Jacob Klein is proposing a 95-unit building mostly set aside for low to moderate income tenants.

Dudley became expendable for the Bucks when they got Greivis Vasquez from the Toronto Raptors to give them a veteran shooter off the bench.

Milwaukee coveted Vasquez for his ability to distribute and run the offense, but his shooting — especially from long-range — will be the biggest benefit.

Jones can take part in all of training camp, but once the preseason ends he will not be able to attend any meetings, practices or team events. 

"Truth or Die" by James Patterson tops this week's fiction list.

There is a sizeable population of muskies from the Prairie du Sac Dam to the Highway 12 Bridge and to a lesser extent from the Bridge downriver (Lower Wisconsin Riverway) to the Mississippi River. 

Former Sun Prairie athlete Tony Butler drove in four runs to power the Madison Mallards to a 7-4 victory over the Kalamazoo Growlers in a Northwoods League amateur baseball game Thursday night…

Michael Blazek (5-2) tossed two scoreless innings for the win. Francisco Rodriguez finished for his 18th save in 18 tries.

The enormous new $3.3 million restaurant and craft beer bar HopCat Madison, will open July 11 with free Crack Fries.

Young, versatile chef Michael Kirst, who embraced nose-to-tail cooking, died Tuesday.

The largest cut will go to the College of Letters and Science, which will see a $7.4 million drop in funding.

The concerns of conservative Christians about gay marriage are understandable. In Monday's article "Conservative churches face new reality" the Rev. Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dallas sai…