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Sun Prairie police continuing investigation of death that followed a domestic dispute

MILWAUKEE — U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa, whose high-profile decisions included a ruling that blocked a secret probe into Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's campaign, has died at age 76.

It marks UW's highest ranking since the Badgers were No. 10 in the final AP poll in 2011.

Leon Jacobs will play both ways for the University of Wisconsin the rest of the season after sophomore inside linebacker Chris Orr suffered a season-ending knee injury against LSU on Saturday, according to Badgers coach Paul Chryst.

A 15-year-old Minnesota boy who had driven an apparently stolen car from his home state was arrested in Madison on Saturday after he and others were caught stealing items from parked cars on Madison's East Side.

Soglin's $329.7 million capital budget, unveiled at a press conference Tuesday morning, begins the long-planned, $26.1 million renovation of the landmark Madison Municipal Building, a major driver in capital spending and borrowing.

An open records case being fought by Attorney General Brad Schimel will go before the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday.

A Madison woman sustained a serious head injury after she fell down a flight of stairs at a North Bassett Street home early Monday, police said.

Madison police are investigating a possible attempted sexual assault that occurred early Monday in the Downtown area.

Police in Sun Prairie are investigating a shooting that happened early Tuesday at a fast food restaurant.

Madison police are looking for people who were involved in an incident Monday night in which gunshots were fired between two cars on Madison's Far East Side.

Deadspin writer Drew Magary called out Wisconsin's beer in his "Why Your Team Sucks" piece on the Packers. A rebuttal.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Staff logs from Wisconsin's troubled youth prison show nearly 500 incidents of aggression, fighting and violence in the four months preceding a December raid at the facility in northern Wisconsin.

The Associated Press interviewed people across the country for their thoughts on how American unity has changed since the cohesive days after the Sept. 11 attacks.

A UW-Madison research team will work with Johns Hopkins University to study cell-connection methods in the eye with the hopes to reverse blindness. The teams are working with a grant from the National Institute of Health.

The culinary arts facility opened when classes began last week as part of a $31 million renovation of MATC's Truax campus.

For a day, the sixth graders in the Madison school district got their schools all to themselves.

The veteran guard wanted to act quickly with the season about to start, liked the idea of staying in the division and playing in a colder climate.