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A smash and grab burglary early Thursday morning netted the suspect about $12,000 worth of cigarettes from a Far East Side convenience store.

The Madison Capitols announced Jake Suter as the team's assistant coach on Thursday.

A man wanted by the state on a parole violation escaped arrest by U.S. marshals in Cambridge on Tuesday, but turned himself in on Thursday.

Vortex is one of the largest suppliers of hunting and birding scopes and binocular optics in the U.S.

There was no need for an official to call to put an early end to morel mushroom gathering season. It closed on its own as abruptly as it began early in May.Now other wild edibles, i.e. plant and fungal parts,…

Citizen tips generated from the release of a surveillance camera image led police to the arrest of a suspect on charges he and another man allegedly sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl last year in Madison.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is asking his supporters to get behind Russ Feingold's bid to defeat Republican Ron Johnson for another term in the U.S. Senate.

This little gem combines my love of grilling with my endless search for new summer vegetarian entrees. Turns out that eggplant parmigiana, that staple of Italian cuisine, is a wonderful candidate for the grill, cooking up quickly and cleanly.

Smoking played a key role in two fires in Madison on Wednesday, with an early morning fire damaging a condo building and an afternoon fire damaging a storage shed, both fires on the city's East Side.

Authorities are trying to determine how a passenger in a pickup truck that crashed early Wednesday morning in Green County ended up at a Madison hospital where the passenger was pronounced dead.

Tacos are always on my mind. I cook them frequently as part of my day job, I visit the local taquerías for fun and I seek out tacos whenever I travel. Interesting fillings such as duck, vegetables and fish, rather…

Two men from Edgerton allegedly delivering cocaine were arrested along the Interstate on Tuesday, with a kilogram of the drug worth about $30,000 allegedly found in their vehicle.

Strong thunderstorms swept through southwest and south-central Wisconsin Thursday morning, with torrential rains and high winds reported, a preview of the days to come leading into Memorial Day on Monday.

The recipe starts out raw — a mere idea — but aims for well done. The interval between hunch and lunch may be spent titrating salt and pepper or tossing out plate after plate.

The new Indian restaurant replaces Maharaja, and is a worthy stand-in for Madison's longest-running Indian restaurant.

Julie Foley has led the Crime Response Program in the Dane County District Attorney's Office since 1996.

That's a lot of money to spend reassuring a community that is by no means unhappy with police.

Closings

Pavelski scored an early goal, Joel Ward added two of his own and the host Sharks advanced to their first Stanley Cup Final in franchise history by beating the St. Louis Blues 5-2 on Wednesday night in Game 6 of…

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