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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A truck driver from Montana has been sentenced to 10 months in jail for a crash that killed a student teacher in Dane County.

The second-ranked Middleton boys golf team finished a solid fourth in The Legend Invitational on Tuesday in Hartland.

The Brewers' season-high three-game winning streak ends.

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Madison Edgewood's Amy Davis breaks Katie Ishmael’s 34-year-old record in the 3,200 meters.

Dane County would be silenced on its own water quality standards under a last-minute motion approved Tuesday by the state Legislature's budget committee.

Ask anyone who was around Craig Counsell during his major league career and invariably two things will come up in the conversation: He was a great teammate and a proven winner.

City Engineering Division analyses three options for the future of the Neo-Classical Revival-style structure.

Having a platoon of well-paid state auditors going after a small percentage of error and abuse by low-income state FoodShare recipients is akin to going fishing with a bazooka. The successful …

Saturday’s State Journal described a painting at the Central Library to which police labor groups object. All thoughtful citizens should join in objecting for several reasons.

I administered many projects requiring prevailing wages during my career in government, and I'd like challenge the accuracy of the case being made by advocates of ending this law.

Requiring a civics test to graduate from high school is a brilliant idea.

Since the early 1930s, all levels of Wisconsin government have issued contracts under prevailing wage laws, which require the hourly labor rates paid under these contracts to be far above loca…

The wide receiver will participate with the Patriots this weekend and is scheduled to be part of the Texans' camp the following weekend.

A judge imposes an immediate 10-month sentence for Gary Lammert, who rear-ended a car driven by Katie Binning in front of the high school in 2012.

The school district and school board have said the contracts are legal because the district and its union Madison Teachers Inc. had been party to an unsuccessful lawsuit to overturn Act 10.

The bill would allow -- but no longer require -- every school that receives funding to keep its K-3 classes at 18 students per teacher or 30 students per two teachers. 

Republicans want to limit what people using food stamps can purchase. The regulations, which need to be approved by the federal government, would forbid recipients from using food stamps to pu…

Our American Revival tells The State newspaper that it has made two hires a few days before Walker's second visit.

MADISON / OREGON - Randy Paul Owens, age 67, of Madison, formerly of Oregon, passed away on Sunday, May 3, 2015, at home surrounded by his loving family and friends. He was born on Feb. 7, 194…