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The My Confessor app lets busy Catholic priests update their statuses from their phones.

Bicycles, film, food, beer and community converge this week at a pair of outdoor summer celebrations: the Eat Play Bike festival at Villager Mall and a visit by the New Belgium Brewing Clips Beer & Film Tour at Olin Park.

Sparta police say evidence suggests a man died due to a drug overdose on Thursday afternoon at an apartment on Court Street.

Where most people see steps, iron railings, ramps and concrete walls, Albrecht sees something to leap over.

The accident occurred about 8:30 p.m. in the 800 block of Vera Court. The girl was taken to the University of Wisconsin Hospital, and the extent of her injuries was not known Sunday night, police said.

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The predictable buzz from the state Democratic Party convention was, "Watch out, Gov. Scott Walker.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) June 16--TWO RIVERS -- There is a sense of urgency as the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum here prepares to open in a new location later this summer.

Two men are facing firearm possession and drug related charges after a Madison police officer spotted the suspects in their car with a pistol in plain view Sunday.

In this June 13, 2013, photo Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker talke with reporters in Madison, Wis.

<![CDATA[Madison, Wis. (Date) - Sue Breitbach Fenn, an American Family Insurance agent in Sheboygan, WI, has been recognized for providing outstanding customer experience under the American Star Excellence in Customer Experience Certification. Breitbach Fenn joins other American Family agents who have demonstrated the highest level of commitment to outstanding customer service. Breitbach Fenn has been an agent for American Family since January, 1994. Her office is located at 3625 Erie Ave., Sheboygan, WI 53081. "When choosing an insurance agent, consumers can rely on the American Star Excellence in Customer Experience Certification to help them identify agents with a proven dedication to meeting customer needs," said Dan Schultz, American Family president and chief operating officer. "This is an outstanding accomplishment." The service excellence distinction was determined through an evaluation process conducted under guidelines established through the American Star Excellence in Customer Experience certification. The process consists of a customer satisfaction survey which measures customers' overall experience with their current American Family agent. Only agencies that perform in the top 20 percent of all insurance agencies nationwide, based on customer satisfaction surveys, are eligible to become American Star Excellence in Customer Experience certified.

A library a bit smaller than most, the Little Free Library is something one might mistake it for a mailbox accessible from the street.

Lawmakers have an elastic interpretation of "probable cause." Cast a wide enough net by indiscriminately corralling emails, social media and phone calls of millions of American citizens, and you may head off a conspiracy.

STERLING &#x2013; Cost Cutters Hair Salons in Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, owned by Bill Kaminski of Madison, Wis., have donated $15,000 to the 2013 Andy North and Friends fundraiser.

A conservation organization that uses ultralight planes to lead endangered whooping cranes from Wisconsin to Florida for the winter has to replace its aircraft by next spring to comply with Federal Aviation Administration regulations.

Governor John Hickenlooper has selected Rick Raemisch as the new Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections.

A Mineral Point fifth-grader won top honors in the Invasive Species Awareness Month poster contest open to Wisconsin fourth- and fifth-graders.

Potatoes are harvested at farm west of Idaho Falls, Idaho, in September 2010. A U.S. wholesale grocer says America's potato farmers are running an illegal price-fixing scheme, driving up spud prices while spying on farmers with satellites to enforce strict limits on how many tubers they can grow.

The Dane County Medical Examiner has identified the victim killed in Wednesday night's homicide as 25-year-old Julia Stacey Majette.

The Madison Police Department and Madison Fire Department are looking for information about a car fire that happened last Sunday.