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MADISON - Auto title loans would be banned, payday loans would be limited to $600 and lenders could not roll over a borrower's debt into a new, larger loan under an Assembly bill unveiled Tuesday.

Updated: 2/9/2010 1:56:11 PM Posted: 2/9/2010 1:54:50 PM MADISON, Wis. -- Authorities say a drunken man stole an ambulance from a Wisconsin ski area with the patient and paramedics still inside.

MADISON, Wis. -- A state lawmaker exaggerated when he claimed he received hundreds of letters from innocent people who said their lives had been hurt by an online court database.

Madison's highest paid city government employee last year wasn't the mayor. It wasn't the police chief.

Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson is slated to give the keynote speech at a conference in Madison on Thursday.

Posted Tuesday, February 2, 2010 --- 11:10 a.m. Snow has accumulated to various depths at various locations throughout the City of Madison as a result of this recent storm.

The state has begun notifying more than 100,000 people that their unemployment benefits will run out at the end of April unless Congress intervenes.

MADISON - Wisconsin hunters donated almost 4,000 deer last year to help feed the needy, state officials say.

Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan still has support from many Democrats, but some Wisconsin residents, angry about his relationship with a lobbyist, sent him insulting and hate-filled e-mails this week calling for his expulsion from his leadership position.

Republican candidate for Senate Dave Westlake says he didn't pay Wisconsin income taxes in 2002 because he was living in Illinois that year.

A Madison native is working to reclaim his life after his weight reached 800 pounds.

State lawmakers must close 911 recordings to the public so the media can't play them and traumatize victims, the father of a man who found his fiancee murdered told a Wisconsin Assembly committee Thursday.

The city of Madison is considering a new way to crack down on snow removal contractors who plow snow from parking lots and driveways onto public streets and sidewalks.

Milwaukee-based Harley Davidson would be named Wisconsin's official motorcycle under a bill that's gaining momentum in the Legislature.

Madison's Urban Design Committee gave initial approval to a Target store at the Hilldale Shopping Center on Wednesday night.

A Madison man is facing hit-and-run charges in the December 2008 death of a Good Samaritan.

Owners of a popular downtown bar that is slated to be demolished to make way for a University of Wisconsin-Madison expansion are not giving up their fight against the university.

Staff member placed on unpaid leave following the discovery of "adult content" on the Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District's email network; several others in trouble.

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APPLETON - Mayor Tim Hanna will create a Convention Center Community Coalition to continue the "public dialogue" on whether to build a convention center here.