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“Lots of folks expected us to do something strange and break out in a riot. Well, they just don’t know us,” the Rev. Norvel Goff told the packed, multiracial congregation of Emanuel African Me…

This week's recipe took honorable mention in the State Journal's dessert category in 1979 and was submitted by Jean McMenomy of Mauston.

Strawberry salads are a way to embrace the season, and other seasonal items.

Josh Gasser can’t help feeling like he hit the rewind button and landed back in 2009.

DEERFIELD, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a 2-year-old child has died after being pulled from his family's pool in Dane County.

All by herself, she was the third-best track and field team in the Division 1 girls state track and field meet.

MILWAUKEE — An injury that has been bothersome all month and caused him to miss two games over the weekend sure didn’t seem to bother Carlos Gomez on Tuesday night.

Percy L. Oliver, 69, was charged with first-degree intentional homicide Tuesday following a crime laboratory analysis and witness interviews.

The Madison Mallards enjoyed yet another stellar starting pitching outing, but their bullpen allowed single runs in the eighth and ninth innings in a 3-1 loss to the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters i…

An investigation found that Oregon police Lt. Karey Clark took opiates from department evidence and Med Drop.

Ex-deputy Jeffrey Hilgers later married the woman that he first met while working in the Dane County Jail.

“I had the best Father’s Day experience watching my son Jake pull in a 30-pound mud cat,” Gregg Sikora said.

There are dozens of uses for June berries, a small landscape tree or shrub, but as soon as the fruits begin to turn red, the birds are eating them.

The puggle chi puppy, stolen from a Madison store on Friday, is still missing, but the alleged puppy-napper has been arrested.

Improved and new neighborhood facilities on the Southwest Side address residents' desire for additional educational and employment resources.

Mascot clothing is unfair to children.

The tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina. reinforces why society should be ready to talk about and deal with the ugliness of prejudice, bigotry, discrimination and racism in a constructive way.

Since 9/11, people motivated by domestic hate groups have killed five times as many Americans as those aligned with foreign terrorist groups, according to the New York Times column "The Growin…

The real story isn't that Gov. Scott Walker is returning the donations he received from the leader of a white supremacist group.

The headline on Sunday's column by Francis Wilkinson, "Nominee will favor legalizing immigrants," is one more example of the scourge of political correctness. Author George Orwell called it "d…