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STOUGHTON - Jeff A. "Kraut" Lechten, age 46, of Stoughton, passed away on Sunday, May 3, 2015. He was born on March 1, 1969, in Madison, the son of Karl and Mary (Massari) Lechten. He married …

MADISON - Ruth A.(Finn) Wanek, age 85, of Madison, passed away on Thursday, May 7, 2015, in Columbus.

The team, made up of one player from each of the 14 Big Ten schools, will play matches in Slovenia, Croatia and Italy in June.

The same Republicans who defend the police when they manhandle protesters are up in arms about raids on conservative operatives during the John Doe investigation. 

UW Health and Waukesha-based ProHealth Care will co-manage ProHealth Care’s new cancer center in Pewaukee, the health care organizations said Thursday.

A $7 million cut in the state budget to Access Community Health Centers in Madison would force the safety net provider to turn away thousands of patients who could end up in emergency rooms, t…

State lawmakers will offer a bill to ban abortions in Wisconsin after 20 weeks into the pregnancy, and Gov. Scott Walker says he favors the measure.

Reedsburg's Tommie Brenner and Middleton's Karlee Ketelboeter also preparing for event 

Lewallen, along with Warren Herring and Kenzel Doe, is one of three UW players to earn post-draft opportunities in the NFL.

The bids are being sought because of Gov. Scott Walker's proposal in his 2015-17 spending plan to abandon the Badger Exam.

A Madison man who was caught taking nude videos of other customers of a campus-area tanning salon was convicted Thursday of 15 criminal charges involving taking videos of unknowing victims at …

An 81-acre property north of Madison, being purchased by Dane County, is being called a "Gateway to the Yahara waterways" and will offer better access to the upper Yahara RIfer.

Attorney General Brad Schimel had requested five prosecutors to investigate shootings by police officers.

High school graduation rates are up in Wisconsin, and the gap in the rates between students of color and white students is closing, according to figures released Thursday.

A Wisconsin Senate panel has dealt a blow to efforts to repeal the state's prevailing wage.

State law currently says students in grades grades 4, 8 and 9 through 11 may opt out of state tests because it was written when only students in those grades took state tests.

There are a host of events tonight far less controversial than Lake Louie's The Twins party at a strip club.

David Orr has been elected as Hooper Corporation's eighth president. Orr's appointment is from General Heating and Air Conditioning, a subsidiary of Hooper, where he served as president since 2010.

The Wisconsin Chapter of the Risk Management Association is proud to announce that the following individuals have been elected to its Board of

After 38 years of service - the last 15 as president - Fred Davie retired from Hooper Corporation at the end of 2014. Davie provided key leadership at Hooper