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Connecticut high court rules same-sex couples can wed
Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry, making that state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions. read story
Doyle unveils research triangle for gene research
Gov. Jim Doyle unveiled an initiative Friday to make Wisconsin a worldwide leader in a fledgling science that would treat patients based on their DNA. read story
DMV center at Westgate closed Saturday
The Department of Motor Vehicles customer service center at the Westgate shopping center on Madison's west side will be closed Saturday because of a temporary computer system shutdown. read story
Motorcyclist hit; pickup driver arrested
A 20-year-old Stoughton man was arrested on multiple charges Friday morning after allegedly hitting and seriously injuring a 50-year-old motorcyclist on Skaalen Road in the town of Pleasant Springs, then driving away from the scene of the accident. read story
Part of American Parkway closed for month
Commuters heading into the American Family Insurance complex on the northeast side might need to take alternate streets starting Tuesday if normally entering from the north due to road construction at the north end of American Parkway. read story
Teen shoots burglar with BB gun
A male juvenile shot one of two burglars with a BB gun Thursday night at his house on Sherman Avenue, but the two suspects fled on foot before police arrived. read story
Drug crime enforcement gets funding boost
Drug investigation units in Wisconsin got an $848,600 boost from the state Thursday to help fund 18 multi-jurisdictional enforcement groups and three assistant district attorney positions to work specifically on prosecuting drug crimes. read story
2 arrested in Circus World Museum fire
A 20-year-old man and a juvenile have been arrested in connection with a fire and vandalism at the state Historical Society's Circus World Museum in Baraboo. read story
Safety enhancements at dangerous intersection moving forward slowly
Dawn Kloppedal received a letter on Sept. 20 that her 18-year-old daughter Tiffany Dutcher had been accepted into a certified nursing assistant program after graduating from high school in June. It was a day too late. At 7:45 p.m. the night before, Kloppedal received another message, this time from a police detective knocking on her front door. Her daughter had died in a car crash at the intersection of Highway 51 and Hoepker Road in northeast Madison, an intersection well-known by state and local officials for being dangerous. read story
The Towel Tote is a Dairy Expo success story
It was 1994 when Cheryl Mohn set up her first booth at World Dairy Expo in Madison. She remembers the wind blowing through the tent that was far from airtight, the water running across the blacktop floor (really the parking lot) and her efforts to sell the "Towel Totes" she had sewn together the prior week. read story
