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1 hour 21 min ago
A Dane County judge signed an order Thursday closing Madison’s
leading Spanish-language newspaper for failing to have workers’
compensation insurance.
1 hour 56 min ago
It’s hard for me to believe it has been 12 years since a
UW-Madison student from Minnesota named Katie O’Phelan called me at
the newspaper and demanded to know why there wasn’t a St. Patrick’s
Day parade in Madison.
4 hours 21 min ago
The New York Times is
reporting today on a draft proposal for standardizing a portion
of the academic experience for public school students throughout
the country.
4 hours 39 min ago
It's only fitting for America's Dairyland: Madison is hoping to
create an ice cream flavor to woo Google Fiber.
5 hours 21 min ago
SUN PRAIRIE — The massive field house inside Sun Prairie’s new
high school, which is scheduled to open in the fall, is a facility
that can serve a great number of purposes.
6 hours 18 min ago
A group of teenagers with real-looking air guns avoided injury
and tickets on Sunday after police responded, with guns drawn, to
the wooded area the teens were in on the city's northeast side.
6 hours 30 min ago
An 80-year-old Madison woman didn't believe a "you are a winner"
scam phone call and told police about it last week.
6 hours 51 min ago
A civil trial attorney from Eau Claire will be the newest member
of the UW Board of Regents.
7 hours 6 min ago
Rock County detectives busted a burglary ring this week,
arresting four young men after finding more than $40,000 in stolen
property at two Janesville residences.
7 hours 9 min ago
A 60-year-old woman was startled early Wednesday morning when a
man allegedly kicked in her apartment door, but after yelling at
him to leave, he apparently did without doing any more damage.
7 hours 21 min ago
The financial chaos in the news business, particularly
newspapers, has created endless discussions, which I'm sure you've
seen already, about how to safeguard that piece of the media's role
that keeps citizens informed and government honest. What you might
not know is that John Nichols of The Capital Times is at the
forefront of a push that is getting major attention nationwide:
calling on the government to subsidize journalism to a far greater
extent than it does now.
7 hours 41 min ago
A 24-year-old Madison woman was shaken well enough to call
police after a man allegedly wanted her to watch him perform a sex
act on himself.
8 hours 1 min ago
A Madison man is accused of swinging a butcher knife at his
neighbor when he arrived home Wednesday night.
8 hours 6 min ago
A 66-year-old woman was mugged Wednesday afternoon while she got
off a Metro bus on the east side.
10 hours 6 min ago
A 26-year-old DeForest man drove into Wingra Creek on Wednesday
after arguing with his passenger and then trying to run him over,
Madison police said.
10 hours 51 min ago
Three women accused of shoplifting from an east side discount
retailer allegedly took so many items that they seemed to be
"drowning" in merchandise inside their car, Madison police
reported.
11 hours 6 min ago
A Madison man serving time for a weapons violation faces up to
five more years in prison after escaping from a residential
facility in February.
11 hours 20 min ago
A Chicago man who led Madison police on a foot chase last August
was sentenced to four years, three months in federal prison on
Wednesday for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
11 hours 21 min ago
More than 16 months after launching an investigation into
allegations of improper conduct by Madison Ald. Mike Verveer in his
former job as a Dane County prosecutor, the state Department of
Justice has yet to complete its inquiry.