
Wis. Gouda named 2013 US Championship Cheese
A Wisconsin Gouda won top honors Wednesday night at the 2013 U.S. Championship Cheese Contest, edging out entries from Vermont and Illinois.

No. 10 Michigan State beats No. 22 Wisconsin 58-43
Keith Appling bounced back in time to give No. 10 Michigan State a shot to share the Big Ten title. Appling scored 14 of his 19 points in the second ...

Wisconsin Assembly passes sweeping mining bill
Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly approved a polarizing mining bill Thursday and sent the measure to Gov. Scott Walker for his signature, ...
Boy dies after pit bull attack in Wisconsin
Authorities say a young boy has died after he was attacked by a couple of pit bulls in southeastern Wisconsin. According to the Walworth County ...
Ball shows better speed at Wisconsin pro day
Running back Montee Ball was clocked in the 40-yard dash at 4.46 seconds, a big improvement over his combine time, at Wisconsin's pro day.

Snow storm barrels through Midwest to Mid-Atlantic
A late winter storm packing up to 10 inches of snow sent officials in weather-hardened Chicago into action Tuesday to prevent a repeat of scenes from ...

Snowstorm threatening big Midwestern cities
A late-season snowstorm that blanketed parts of the Dakotas on Monday was threatening to do the same to cities from Minneapolis to Chicago, which were ...
Missing racing sausage left in Wisconsin bar
The case of the missing sausage is closed. The Journal Sentinel in Milwaukee is reporting the 7-foot Italian sausage costume, usually seen racing ...

Storm brings deaths, travel problems, power losses
A Midwest snowstorm packing heavy snow and strong winds left six people dead in Kansas, hundreds of vehicles crashed or stranded in Wisconsin, and ...

Jail, probation deal for woman in 1957 murder
A 76-year-old Wisconsin woman accused of killing her infant daughter more than a half-century ago could serve little jail time after pleading no ...
New generation of governors seeking the limelight
For governors with national ambitions, this is pad — and promote — your record time. Republicans Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is trying to ditch his ...

Snowstorm dies down, Midwest travel woes tick up
A major winter storm turned Midwest commutes into treacherous challenges Friday before the system petered out over the Great Lakes. At least four ...

Magic trade Redick, 2 others to Bucks
When he first took over as Orlando's general manager this past summer, Rob Hennigan was adamant that it would take a deliberate process to rebuild the ...

Inquest jury recommends charging 3 Milwaukee cops
Three Milwaukee police officers who ignored a suspect's pleas for help as he gasped for air in the back of a squad car should face misdemeanor charges ...

NY's Cardinal Dolan questioned on Wis. abuse cases
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, just days ahead of his departure for Rome and the conclave that will elect the next pope, has been deposed about ...
Romney to address conservative conference in March
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will make his first public speech since the 2012 election at a noteworthy gathering of conservatives ...

Mother Jones reporter wins Polk for Romney story
The reporter for Mother Jones magazine who broke the story of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's remarks that 47 percent of Americans ...

Wisconsin holds on to beat Minnesota 3-2
Wisconsin scored three times in the second period and held on to beat second-ranked Minnesota 3-2 Sunday in the Hockey City Classic at Soldier Field.

No. 20 Wisconsin cruises past No. 13 Ohio St 71-49
Wisconsin can be awfully good when it is making shots. Ohio State found that out Sunday. The 20th-ranked Badgers shot 53 percent from the field, their ...

Charlie Sheen pays for injured teen's therapy dog
There's a 15-year-old Florida girl who didn't really know much about Charlie Sheen before this week — but does now. The actor wired ...

Do tax increases kill jobs? Minn. soon to find out
Dik Bolger is a lifelong Minnesota Democrat, a gray-bearded baby boomer with a braid down his back whose Minneapolis printing company's plant displays ...

Wisconsin scientists help search for alien life
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are helping search for evidence of alien life not by looking into outer space, but by studying some ...

Animal welfare groups sue to end Midwest wolf hunt
The Humane Society of the United States and other animal welfare groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday to restore federal protections for gray wolves in the ...

Wisconsin tribe threatens Walker jobs project
For generations the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has quietly carved out a hardscrabble existence in the evergreen forests and sloughs ...