Two men from Evansville, Wis. were victims of battery early Sunday morning as they walked along State Street near Gilman Street, the Madison Police Department reported.
The Wisconsin softball team will return home to play a back-to-back nonconference doubleheader against the North Dakota Fighting Sioux Wednesday.
UW-Madison juniors Asad Asad and Nicholas Lillios were awarded $30,000 each from two scholarship programs to put toward graduate studies.
Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner spoke at UW-Milwaukee Tuesday to promote a new financial reform bill that they said would benefit the middle class.
Gov. Jim Doyle and other state officials are touring the state for Wisconsin Covenant Days this week and next week.
The National Institutes of Health re-approved federal funding on Tuesday for five prominent stem-cell lines discovered at UW-Madison, according to a WiCell press release. James Thomson's research team uncovered the lines in 1998, including H9 cells, which are the most reliable and accounted for about 40 percent of all stem-cell research orders made before the Bush Administration banned their federal funding, according to the release.
Construction begins on the renovations planned for the School of Human Ecology building this Friday at 3:30 p.m.
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced his plans to run for re-election at an event in Milwaukee Monday.
Two Madison men were arrested Friday after allegedly attempting an armed robbery on State Street in which they mimicked a gun with their hands to scare their victim.
A new bill introduced in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate would make it easier for students to erase private student loan debt when they declare bankruptcy, if the bill is signed into law.
War protestor Cindy Sheehan and a panel of fellow antiwar and electoral reform advocates presented their ideas in a discussion Monday at Memorial Union.
The Mifflin neighborhood meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Madison Senior Center at 330 W. Mifflin St., will allow community members to voice concerns and have questions answered regarding this year's Mifflin Street Block Party.
Sometimes measuring success is not that simple.
The city Board of Estimates approved a resolution on the planned renovations to the Central Library Monday.
Former Wisconsin Secretary of Commerce Dick Leinenkugel formally launched his Senate campaign as a Republican at an event in Janesville Monday.
A 33-year-old Madison woman was arrested Thursday night after stabbing and hitting her boyfriend in the face with scissors and dishware, according to a police report.
A UW-Madison student and his roommate were arrested April 13 in what the Madison Police Department is calling ""one of the largest marijuana busts in recent memory,"" according to Channel 3000.
As graduation looms near and thousands of University of Wisconsin students descend into the real world in search of a full-time job, and thousands of others scramble for a summer position, it can be hard to ignore the frighteningly high unemployment rate.
Public universities including UW-Madison could be required to provide recognition and funds for student groups that limit membership on the basis of beliefs if the U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of a California campus Christian group.
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