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Moving dissolution of the town of Madison up from 2022 could help Madison and Fitchburg address problems in the town's economically disadvantaged areas and could expedite redevelopment of the Alliant Energy Center.

COACHES’ PICKS

MARSHALL — Marshall football coach Matt Kleinheinz likes the qualities quarterback Adam Wehking exhibits, particularly his leadership abilities.

Nancy Kavazanjian provided her position on using genetically modified organisms on her Dodge County farm in a guest column in last Sunday's State Journal. She is comfortable with growing and eating food produced with GMOs. But I am not.

It is impossible for Hillary Clinton to take away all of our guns because Barack Obama took them all away after the 2012 election. Which, of course, was impossible because he already took all of our guns away after he…

Back in February, President Barack Obama requested $1.9 billion in emergency Zika funding. Republicans felt this was too much and settled on a bill that would allocate $1.1 billion instead.

The writer of the Aug. 6 letter to the editor "How can Christians support Trump?" thought any Christian evangelicals voting for Donald Trump was reaching the “peak of Mount Hypocrisy.”

As Chris Rickert suggested in his column Tuesday, panhandlers at road intersection would disappear if drivers did not give them money.

That's the seventh lowest since 1948, though there weren't any competitive statewide elections on the ballot.

The two accelerators give business tools to companies that are just out of the box.

Sister Cecilia Carey, who served as president of Edgewood College from 1967 to 1977 and as prioress of the Sinsinawa Dominican congregation from 1977 to 1986, died Friday at the age of 94.

Record production and yields predicted for corn and soybeans in Wisconsin and nation.

Matthew Ringelstetter, 28, was handcuffed and being taken to a squad car when he resisted a deputy and left on foot.

State law prohibits showing others an image of a ballot, but judges in other states have struck down such laws.

The Islamic State has apparently urged its followers to claim as many government benefits as they can as a source of funding, and a new report suggests they are listening. American authorities at every level need to maintain an airtight…

Some states fare better than others when new trade agreements are established. The proposed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) aims to lower tariffs between participating nations. The TPP has been signed by the U.S., Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico,…

A federal court in Wisconsin on Friday overturned the conviction of a man found guilty of helping his uncle kill Teresa Halbach in a case profiled in the Netflix documentary "Making a Murderer."

WYOCENA - Clarice Rachel (Meekma) Krueger died on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, at the Columbia County Health Care facility in Wyocena, Wis. She was born on Feb. 3, 1927, in Watertown, Wis., to James and Grace (Buursma) Meekma.

WAUNAKEE / ASHTON - Kenneth Merle Helt, age 47, of Waunakee/Ashton, died as the result of an automobile accident on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016. Funeral services will be held on Monday, Aug. 15, 2016, at 11 a.m. at ST. PETER…

PORTAGE - Thomas Charles Winter, age 74, died on Aug. 11, 2016, in his home. Tom was born on Aug. 23, 1941, to Elmer and Veronica (Haley) Winter. On June 17, 1961, he married Kay Baxter in Emmetsburg Iowa.