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Victim Ariel Peralta, age: 17, 506, 200, Brown hair dyed over blonde, brown eyes, last seen wearing gray t-shirt, navy blue sweatpants, flip-flops. Peralta was last seen on Thursday, 05-24-12, at school in Lake Mills, and did not return to her home in Madison.

MADISON -- Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley will meet with Tom Barrett volunteers and supporters at an event in Madison Thursday.

MADISON -- A government watchdog group says outside groups have spent more than $20 million in Wisconsin's gubernatorial recall.

A Madison man was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday for shooting a gun at a car last year near a park with a number of kids nearby.

On Thursday, May 24, 2012, Special Agents from the Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation , with assistance from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations , and the Dane County Sheriff's Office, executed a search warrant at the residence of Edward J. Wesser, located at 2438 Old Camden ... (more)

MADISON -- The Middleton-Cross Plains District disciplines 17 students and a substitute teacher after investigating a New Year's Eve party involving underage drinking.

MADISON -- Police catch a man they say took off from them when officers tried to pull him over.

MADISON -- Many people in the Madison area enjoyed a good night at the ballpark with the Madison Mallards Wednesday.

MADISON, Wis. An Arpin woman will spend two years on probation for spending her mother's Social Security money on herself.

USDA Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, Kevin Concannon, stopped by Lindbergh Elementary School in north Madison on Wednesday, meeting with students in the school's cafeteria.

MADISON -- Governor Scott Walker continues to lead his Democratic opponent, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, in the latest Marquette Law School Poll released six days before the recall election.

JANESVILLE -- Gov. Scott Walker and his Democratic challenger Tom Barrett will both make stops in Janesville on Wednesday, just six days before the recall election.

City of Madison fire investigators believe a fire at 1913 E. Washington yesterday afternoon started in the kitchen, but was not the result of a cooking fire.

Every day between now and the June 5 gubernatorial recall election, Patch will provide daily updates on what's happening on the campaign trail.

Madison is a very pet-friendly city, with many trails and parks for people and pets to enjoy.

MADISON -- A Wisconsin broadcasters group is pushing back against a federal effort to require TV stations to post political-advertising information online.

MADISON, Wis. Republican state Representative Tom Tiffany has turned in nomination papers to run this fall for the state Senate seat that Democrat Jim Holperin is giving up.

CAMPBELLSPORT, Wis. -- A Wisconsin girl shot in the back with an arrow is home from the hospital and talking for the first time about what happened.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the city $800,000 for assessment, cleanup and redevelopment of the 800 block of East Washington Avenue.

Ericka Seastrand graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in consumer science.