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On the night of the NBA draft, Milwaukee Bucks coach Jason Kidd spoke encouragingly about the team’s intentions in free agency this summer.

The 2016 All-Area Girls Athlete of the Year competed in WIAA state tournaments in three sports and shared school valedictorian honors.

The Regents' first 12-time letterwinner since 1984 has been named the All-Area Male Athlete of the Year for 2016.

Leuer averaged 8.5 points and 5.6 rebounds for the Phoenix Suns last season, his fifth in the league. He also has played for Memphis, Cleveland and Milwaukee, the team that drafted him in 2011.

Stricker said Saturday he would play the Scottish Open next week at Castle Stuart in Inverness before going down to Royal Troon for what could be his final appearance in golf’s oldest championship.

The left-hander allows a double and two singles over six shutout innings.

Michael William Schumacher, who died after being shot by a Madison police officer Thursday night, was a UW grad struggling with mental illness.

The recent UW grad finishes third at the U.S. trials to secure her spot on the American team for Rio.

I am outraged by calls for Madison Police Chief Mike Koval to lose his job. He has done nothing but work diligently on behalf of the citizens of Madison since taking office.

The five justices on the U.S. Supreme Court who were the majority on the recent Texas abortion ruling are as blind to human dignity as the majority of the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 which legalized abortion on demand…

Kudos to Stu Bykofsky for a well-balanced article on the debate over guns on the cover of last Sunday's Opinion section. Like him, I self-identify as a "gun nut," and I am a member of several firearms rights organizations.

To the Afghani woman I met in the checkout at Walmart 13 years ago: I saw your name tag, and recognized it as a Muslim name. When I asked where you were from, you said “Afghanistan." Then I froze.

The right-hander scatters seven hits over seven scoreless innings.

Tammy Thayer spent 18 years honing her world view abroad, now she has the reins of MATC's fundraising and scholarship arm.

This State Journal editorial ran on July 3, 1916:

WISCONSIN DELLS - On July 1, 2016, Heaven welcomed an Angel. With his loving family by his side, James Joseph Van Dinter, age 86, of Wisconsin Dells, Wis., decided it was time to go Home.

MADISON - Bryan J. Slack passed on peacefully, but unexpectedly, from this world on June 29, 2016, after a long struggle with Type 1 diabetes. Bryan arrived on this earth in Des Moines, Iowa, on April 4, 1978, where he…

SPRING GREEN - Marcylene A. Stapleton, age 84, passed away on Friday, July 1, 2016, at the Meadows Assisted Living in Spring Green, surrounded by her loving family, following a long illness. She was born Nov. 9, 1931, in Plain,…

MADISON - Our beloved husband, father, and friend, Bill Peden, passed away on June 30, 2016, surrounded by his family. He was born April 17, 1952, in Columbus, Ohio, to William and Theresa, and moved to Madison in the mid-1970s.