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Junior forward Tom Barlow scored in the 55th minute and the University of Wisconsin men’s soccer team won its season opener, 1-0 over Santa Clara in a non-conference game Friday night at McClimon Field.

MILWAUKEE — It was a big game for Brewers shortstop Orlando Arcia but it was a bigger one for Pirates shortstop Jody Mercer.

The Madison Memorial girls swimming team survived a tough early Big Eight Conference test on Friday, defeating host Madison West 102-5-67.5 in a dual meet.

Less than two weeks ago, the starting quarterback job was slipping away from Bart Houston.

Lynx Biosciences wins a pitch contest.

The announcement came hours before nearly 2,000 people showed up for the funeral of a black man fatally shot by police.

How to vote -- Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? This is the conundrum.

China is squabbling over islands in the South China Sea claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan. And they are going about it all wrong.

I suspect the oak tree on the Capitol Square snapped after years of trying to cope with the increasing overload of the fumes from the buses, methane gases from the cows and humans, and carbon monoxide from the cars, and…

It feels like summer just started, but already we prepare for autumn and the fall equinox.

Panhandlers don't want jobs. Why should they when they have people handing them money all day long.

A Madison Area Technical College teacher is ridiculed for sharing his faith in God with a couple of students. Meanwhile, President Obama would prefer to play golf rather than visiting or aiding the people of flooded Baton Rouge.

This letter is for bicyclists.

Gov. Scott Walker requested a $1.3 billion loan for the transportation budget. Wisconsin legislators reduced the amount of the loan to $850 million. Now 20 cents out of every dollar in the transportation budget goes to debt payments.

Steven Avery's attorney wants to date blood and DNA evidence to see if it was planted and says the results will show that someone else killed Teresa Halbach.

Yadiel Nunez-Munoz, 20, of Orlando, Florida, was convicted of shooting 26-year-old Alvaro Avila-Jimenez on April 26, 2014.

Most of us feel deeply about our right to free speech.

A former Madison police officer, convicted of taking nearly $4,000 during a sting operation last year that was aimed at him, was sentenced Friday to two years of probation after a federal judge said the crime was brought about more…

LANCASTER - Rosemary Wolf, age 64, of Lancaster, passed away on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016, surrounded by her loving family by her side, at Orchard Manor Nursing Home, after a courageous battle with ALS. She was born on Feb. 8,…

MOUNT HOREB / KYLE, Texas - Cynthia L. Sutter, age 58, of Kyle, Texas, died on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Ellestad Camacho Funeral Home, 500 N. 8th St., Mount Horeb, Wis.