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The game ends when Ryan Braun strikes out with the bases loaded.

Maxwell Kennedy, 21, of Baraboo, drowned while trying to swim across the river Thursday morning.

Retired UW-Madison professor Kemal Karpat said it's difficult to know what impact the events will have on the country internally.

If ever we needed a definition of police brutality, the video of Genele Laird being arrested fits the bill.

I am praying for the men who have been on a hunger strike at Waupun Correctional Institution.

Enough is enough. Every time Jesse Jackson, President Barack Obama and Al Sharpton rush to judgment about events such as the police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana, we have a disaster. Now we have five police officers dead.

In response to the June 29 letter to the editor "Constitution didn't imagine assault rifles," the First Amendment did not imagine radio, television, cellphones or the Internet.

The July 7 letter to the editor "Supreme Court affirmed women's rights" stated "the pro-choice community affirms women as intelligent, compassionate beings who have the capability and right to make their own wise choices."

In August 2015, the man sent four ounces of the drug to a customer in Madison.

The Startup Weekend for Education will be the first such event in Wisconsin.

The Pew Research Center recently released an analysis on America’s shrinking middle class in which it defined the middle class income tier as households earning two-thirds to double the median income for a household of the same size. Nationally, middle…

The Department of Corrections wants to keep employee training recordings as public records, but also is seeking the ability to destroy them after a day.

But it still fails to meet federal standards in some areas.

A new book called “Heart of a Lion” is giving some folks hope that cougars dispersing from South Dakota’s Black Hills will soon recolonize the Midwest, much like gray wolves from northeastern Minnesota recolonized Wisconsin’s Northwoods and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

FENNIMORE - Charles S. "Chuck" Weist Jr., age 45, died on Tuesday afternoon, July 12, 2016, in the town of Sterling in Vernon County, Wis., as a result of an automobile accident. Chuck was born on May 7, 1971, in…

MADISON - Suzanne L. Morrow passed on Friday, July 15, 2016. She was born July 26, 1932. Suzanne is survived by a daughter, Debra (Greg) Spees; three grandchildren, Hillary, Chase and Farren (Tom); three great-grandchildren, Nolan, Addison and Landyn; and…

STOUGHTON - Irene O. Bronte, age 81, passed away surrounded by her family on Thursday, July 14, 2016. She was born in Stoughton on March 15, 1935, the daughter of Wilbur and Olga (Johnson) Straavaldson.

Donald Trump has selected the perfect non-Trump as his running mate. Mike Pence, the phlegmatic Republican governor of Indiana, has strong credentials with the social right and mediocre political instincts.

It should be a beautiful Saturday in Madison, but the upcoming week could be a scorcher, especially later in the week.

Gov. Scott Walker has appointed an assistant attorney general to be a judge in Dane County Circuit Court, but it's unclear if the appointee will run for a full term in April 2017.