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The ease of making contributions online has helped Americans become much more generous to other countries, especially when disaster strikes.

No Big Ten coaches have publicly accepted an invite from Harbaugh.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Madison man has been convicted of taking nude videos of unknowing customers at a tanning salon.

The local blues band gets into its busy season as a festival favorite. 

Jon Heyman of CBS Sports reports that GM Doug Melvin is most reluctant to deal catcher Jonathan Lucroy and shortstop Jean Segura.

“Orphan” is a very empty word, starting with the initial “O” that reminds me of a big, alphabetic hole.

That hissing sound you hear is the air coming out of Tom Brady’s career.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors say a 17-year-old Madison boy stabbed and wounded the father of his former prom date because her parents asked him to help pay for the prom dress she wouldn't …

A documentary spotlights New Glarus Brewing's ubiquitous beer, while at the brewery a sale of a hard-core beer geek brew continues.

Along with her voice, Gwendolyn Brown brings Madison a message about the arts.

Golfer Sherri Steinhauer will be on hand for a night honoring her dad, Fritz Steinhauer, and the First Tee of South Central Wisconsin.

The Madison area is making real progress at cleaning up its lakes.

Verona-based Forward Development Group says it has the necessary guarantees for its planned Kettle Park West project.

Long before he was the people’s mayor of “Portlandia,” well before he was Bree’s second husband on “Desperate Housewives,” and ages before he was Charlotte’s first husband on “Sex and the City…

Spring is the perfect time for a stroll through the UW-Madison Arboretum, and several events there this weekend make a visit even more timely. On the Web: uwarboretum.org.

Twenty years from now, what fundamental lesson will Michael Lihrman want his children to know about his time as a student-athlete at the University of Wisconsin?

Nelson's productivity and humble, blue collar attitude has made him something of a folk hero in Wisconsin. 

ESPN says the game will be played July 19, a day after Favre is inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame in Green Bay.

BASEBALL

Stephen Curry, Derrick Rose and Kyrie Irving are trying to see if they can take a different path to the title, more often beating opponents scoring the basketball, though they are capable passers.