University of Wisconsin Madison News

A former UW Madison employee was charged with felony theft for stealing funds from UW SWAP, Surplus With A Purpose.

Oven, fryer and smokehouse equipment suppliers continually are improving the design to minimize the gap between what processors want their cooking equipment to do and what the machines are capable of doing.

Poverty may have direct implications for important, early steps in the development of the brain, saddling children of low-income families with slower rates of growth in two key brain structures, according to researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Court documents state prosecutors lacked enough, unspecified evidence to prove a sex assault charge, and a felony false imprisonment charge, against a UW-Madison researcher.

Ben Logan traveled as a merchant seaman, and worked many years as a novelist, producer and writer of films and television, and lecturer, while living forty miles north of New York City.

Accumulating snow is likely from late in the day Friday through midday Saturday.

Beverly Bennett says her daughter might still be alive had legislation approved yesterday by the Ohio House been state law in 2006.

Columbus Police Sgt. Jason Grunkemeyer shows some of the DVDs and video games - forfeited in a stolen-property case - that will be auctioned off Saturday morning, along with thousands of other items, at the police property room, 724 E. Woodrow Ave. The division's annual December auction of abandoned, forfeited and unclaimed property will be held on ... (more)

Massachusetts passed up a chance to be the home of a booming yogurt startup that was founded by two state residents.

Afternoon Update, sent weekday afternoons, keeps you up to date with breaking news and updates from later in the day.

Prosecutors say they will not file domestic-violence charges against George Zimmerman after his girlfriend said in a sworn statement she did not want to pursue the case.

You can learn a lot in the news business. I received a news release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison today that mentioned a 60-year-old music hit titled "I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas."

International news supported the soy complex overnight. A surprising increase in forecast global soybean carryout on Tuesday's WASDE report undercut CBOT prices, but the soy markets rebounded modestly early this morning.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tops our list again, but the University of Michigan is on the march.

Women can all recite the downsides to aging: We need glasses to read, our waist is expanding in ways previously seen only during pregnancy , the wrinkles crop up daily with the gray hairs coming in close second.

Despite the rising cost of universities, undergraduate student loan debt at the University of Wisconsin remains less than the national, state and UW System averages for student debt.

Two charges against a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher have been dismissed after a plea of no contest to a third charge of disorderly conduct, according to state court records.

There's a large and growing body of evidence that psychological stress - the kind experienced by war orphans, caretakers of people with dementia, and men and women with post-traumatic stress disorder - can cause genetic damage.

This Thursday a coalition of student organizations, Students for Equitable Law Enforcement, is putting on an event to talk about the intersection of police policies and racial disparities from a student perspective.

Commonwealth makes yogurt for retailers - such as Wegmans, Costco and others - that private label it and under its own brand, Green Mountain Creamery.