A new farmers’ market will be held at East Towne Mall beginning Sunday.

Madison police had a "two-fer" on Wednesday: Two allegedly intoxicated drivers arrested for driving and crashing the same car.

A 28-year-old Madison police officer was slightly injured Wednesday trying to get out of the way of a motorist who suddenly accelerated, with the officer halfway in the suspect's car attempting to get him to stop following a road rage incident.

Local public safety agencies seem slow to sign up for a statewide law enforcement information sharing system, known as the Justice Gateway. Only a fraction of the state's agencies are currently using the system and "implementation has proceeded relatively slowly," according to an audit released Thursday.

A 47-year-old Madison woman who sells new clothes and shoes out of her car's trunk allegedly reported being robbed at gunpoint Wednesday night by two teens with scarves tied around their faces.

GRAND ISLE, La. (AP) - An offshore oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.

A pit bull dog was euthanized after it attacked a small dog and the small dog's owner on the far east side Wednesday morning, Madison police reported.

While it's fairly late in the season for mosquitoes, the state veterinarian is recommending horse owners vaccinate their animals if they haven't done so already, because of the huge mosquito population this hot and wet summer.

The service road fronting the Oscar Mayer plant will be closed for three days beginning Saturday.

Madison police are looking for two men who punched and pointed a gun at a third man in a dispute about a woman.

Garbage collectors are among the many who won't be laboring on Labor Day.

Students and professors hoping to light up between classes on the UW-Stout campus are out of luck.

Mount Horeb Primary Center opens on Thursday for the first day of school one day later than normal, after a fire in a book storage room canceled the start of school on Wednesday.

"Storm before the calm" might sound backward, but that's basically the weather pattern we'll see in south central Wisconsin on Thursday and Friday.

Editor's note: This is the third in a three-part series about the race for governor in Wisconsin. On Tuesday we featured Tom Barrett and on Wednesday we featured Mark Neumann.

Madison police are two weeks into a risky campaign targeting the large numbers of homeless who have been sleeping on benches and doorways around the Capitol Square and other parts of Downtown Madison this summer.

The dog that attacked and killed a 4-year-old girl Aug. 25 will be euthanized Friday.

One of the people killed in a fiery car crash Saturday morning in Sauk County's town of Dellona was identified as Tyler Henneha, 21, of Wisconsin Dells, the Sauk County Sheriff's Department said in a release Tuesday.

A man arrested last month by Madison police, who said he was an "upper-level" member of the Clanton-14, or C-14, street gang that was planning to retaliate for the April slaying of gang member Antonio Perez, was charged Wednesday in federal court with illegally re-entering the country after being deported.

More officers from the Madison Police Department will be in the north district in the coming days following four robbery incidents in the last week, the department announced Wednesday.