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Milwaukee starter Matt Garza struck out six over five innings, allowing one run and five hits with two pair of walks but left without a decision in a tie game.
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In his Saturday column about the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, John Kass said that President Donald Trump "failed his morality test." But so does Kass and his fellow conservative columnists.
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More than 25 speakers are slated to participate at the Sept. 12 Workforce Strategies Summit for Manufacturers held at the Alliant Energy Center's Exhibition Hall.
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With the focus on Joe Callahan vs. Tayson Hill for the No. 3 QB spot, the biggest development at the position is being overlooked. Hundley has raised his stock markedly this August.
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The Cardinals -- led by sophomores Autumn Dushack and Hannah Ray and senior Katie Rose Blachowicz -- return a strong team after winning their first WIAA Division 1 state cross country title last year.
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As far as coach Greg Gard is concerned, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team checked off a lot of boxes during its journey to Australia and New Zealand.
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Teammates Aaron Rodgers, Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb visited Dupre in the hospital after Dupre was knocked unconscious by a hit in the Packers’ Aug. 10 preseason game against the Eagles.
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The World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest contest goes beyond cheese as judges look for the best in milk, cottage cheese, dips and other products.
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As UW-Madison attracts more and more students from overseas, the university is offering a new summer course officials say can help ease the transition to college.
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MADISON—Joseph M. “Joe” Rowland, age 74, passed away on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017, at his home in Madison. A Memorial Service will be held at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, at RYAN FUNERAL HOME, 2418 N. Sherman Ave.,…
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MADISON—Stella Y.K. Wong, age 73, passed away peacefully Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg. Born in China in 1943, Stella immigrated to the United States in 1969 after marrying Soo Fon Lee Wong. After her husband’s...

BLANCHARDVILLE—Avis Hendrickson, age 91, passed away on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, at the New Glarus Home. She was born on July 25, 1926, on the home farm in the town of York, Green County, Wis., the daughter of Melvin and…
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MARTINSVILLE—Terry J. Ripp, age 58, passed away peacefully at her home on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. Arrangements are pending. A full obituary will appear in the Sunday paper. Online condolences may be made at www.gundersonfh.com.
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Jerry Douglas is the undisputed master of the dobro — an Art Deco-era resonating guitar. For decades, he’s been an ambassador for the instrument and even helped bring it into the modern era.
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A paper owned by unions is mocking and opposing a deal trumpeted as creating jobs. That’s because the Sun-Times understands what a colossal mistake Foxconn is.
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I’m obsessed with the arts, criticism, and the avant-garde. But I’ve recently started dating a woman with the exact opposite taste. She loves stupid romantic comedies, brain-dead sitcoms, trashy bestselling novels and crappy commercial music.
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Four spectacular women deliver a dynamic punk-rock version of the story of the woman accused of killing her father and stepmother. “Lizzie” is at the Fredric March Play Circle through Aug. 26.
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UW-Madison’s innovative First Wave hip-hop scholarship program is undergoing a restructuring, say officials. Scholars and alumni react with mixed feelings to the news that the program will not welcome a 2018-19 cohort.
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In the course of one evening, American Players Theatre’s “Three Sisters” shows the short distance between a life filled with color and energy and one of grim, staid monotones.
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Aussie wines at Square Wine, pizza made with doughnut dough crust at Dough Baby Bakery and a solar eclipse viewing party at Madison Sourdough, this week in events that are leapin’ and hoppin’ on a moonshadow.
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Diana Murphy’s cow, Nelle, is the sole producer of a cheese called Arthur. Murphy, an experienced goat cheese maker, likes the farmstead aspect of one cow, one cheese.
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Walker’s wildly liberal giveaway of tax dollars suggests a desperation to wipe away his failed promise to create 250,000 new jobs and the state’s consistently below-average ranking in job creation.
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As it approaches a half-century of existence, Madison’s scrappy Broom Street Theater welcomes its fourth artistic director, playwright and novelist Doug Reed.
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An early work from Sarah Ruhl, one of the country’s most original playwrights, “Melancholy Play” has a tough time balancing humor, absurdity and darkness. Add a dreary cello score, and it ends up being a downer.
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Japanese fly fishing offers a radical simplicity, in contrast to equipment-focused Western fly fishing. Madison’s Matt Sment is an ambassador for the sport.
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A federal appeals court has given gray wolves in the Great Lakes a reprieve. But the animals could still end up being delisted, either by the Environmental Protection Agency or Congress.
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Civil rights lawsuits stemming from police shootings in Madison are raising the city’s insurance costs. The city’s share of just two recent multimillion dollar lawsuits cost taxpayers $600,000.
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Wisconsin author Michael Perry shows his writing chops in “Danger: Man Working,” an excellent new collection of essays from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
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Increasing concerns about opioid abuse among student athletes have prompted the creation of a state website. The Wisconsin Department of Justice and the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association collaborated on the project.
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In this week’s Savage Love, Dan takes on some shorter letters, which doesn’t mean the problems don’t loom large. On the roster: flaccidity, brother foursomes and living with a mate who voted Trump.
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After violence in Charlottesville over efforts to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, some Madison residents and elected officials want a plaque calling Confederate soldiers “valiant” and “unsung heroes” removed from city-owned cemetery.
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There’s no better place than the Great Taste of the Midwest beer festival to drink a bunch of tiny beers. Here’s to another round of great discoveries.
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Gov. Scott Walker has essentially said that he would support a $190 million annual tax increase on Wisconsin residents. Let’s meet him halfway and accept that tax increase — but look at an alternative for how we want to invest it.
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