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A New Jersey judge has put down a new marker in the long history of childbirth, ruling that expectant moms have the right to bar unwed dads from the delivery room.

Newcomers Wendy Francour and Paul Buzzell are competing with unsuccessful 2011 candidate Sid Terry for two seats on the Meqon-Thiensville School Board.

Velvalea "Vel" Phillips, the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison law school, will be honored later this month with a Distinguished Alumni Award as the campus observes the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act.

Pupils from Charsfield, Sproughton and Birchwood schools take part in national grow you own potatoes day at Trinity Park, Ipswich Did you know that the potato was introduced to England by Sir Walter Raleigh? These were just some of the potato-related facts that children learnt about at a morning of workshops in Ipswich.

Elizabeth 'Liz' 'Betty' Watt Orear French, 91, passed away Saturday March 1 at Huntington Place in Janesville.

Incumbent School Board President Gary Williams and incumbent member Dennis Griffin will attempt to defend their seats against William Weisgerber, who is running for the second time in as many years.

Education: West Allis Central High School, 1992; University of Wisconsin-Madison, bachelor's degree in political science, 1996; Marquette University Law School, law degree, 1999 Community involvement: West Allis Police and Fire Commission; formerly on the West Allis Board of Review, serving as chairman; executive board vice president of the Three ... (more)

The Waukesha Creative Arts League is sponsoring a 2014 WRAP exhibit and workshop at the Oconomowoc Arts Center.

The President of the Ghana Association of Madison , Richardson Addai-Mununkum has urged Ghanaians home and abroad to renew their commitments towards advancing the course of Ghana.

That was the question panelists at a WUWM and MPTV event answered on Tuesday, during a special edition of Lake Effect.

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University of Michigan's business, medical and law schools each slipped in U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of graduate schools, while its engineering and education schools appear to have grown stronger this year.

Seen here: The Cambridge University Women's Boat Club crew row towards Hammersmith Bridge during The Newton Women's Boat Race Trials on the River Thames on March 2, 2014.

Today we are fortunate to have a guest contribution written by Isao Kamata , Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin - Madison have launched an online version of the Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning , a research-based tool for assessing K-12 school leadership.

Inspired by a discussion about creative advocacy in their first library and information studies class, "Information Agencies and Their Environments," at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010, Erinn Batykefer and Laura Damon-Moore conceived the Library as Incubator Project .

From the 1850s to the late 1930s, the Sokaogon Chippewa tribe of Wisconsin lacked any legal right to its own lands-a history community member Omar Poler learned in a college class called Writing Tribal Histories.

I was born in 1950, prime cannon-fodder for the Vietnam killing machine. Like most white middle-class kids though, I was "saved" by my college deferment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.