Jarrett Adams tries not to think about the seven and a half years he spent in prison for a rape he didn’t commit. Convicted in Jefferson County along with two others for an alleged 1998 sexual assault, Adams spent most of his 20s behind bars.

If you come to Cottage Grove School dressed as a lumberjack, you’re OK. Same goes for dairy farmer or football player.

Joe Clausius finally has an answer to all the questions.

A girl who broke her collarbone during an Evansville High School football practice, while not wearing the protective gear that the boys were wearing, reached an out-of-court settlement Friday in her civil rights lawsuit against the Evansville Community School District.

Calling the killer everything from a “deadbeat dad” to a self-indulgent and violent perpetual offender, Dane County Judge William Hanrahan sentenced Michael E. Voltz to nine years in prison and 10 years of supervision in the beating death of a friend in an East Side public park last November.

Thirty-one people from across the country met in Madison this weekend to hold a reunion for “bonecancerdogs,” a support group for people who own dogs with bone cancer.

There will be road construction delays in three areas next week, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.

As the 2009 campaign chair for United Way of Dane County, many people have asked me what they can do to help our community in this challenging year. They recognize the importance of United Way’s work on the Agenda for Change for long-term progress for our community.

Some pieces of the Dane County budget puzzle fell into place Friday as officials cautiously applauded a tentative one-year agreement calling for a 3 percent salary cut and a no-lay-off pledge for key unions representing 1,500 – or more than 60 percent – of the county’s workers.

Aldevron, the latest technology company to bring operations to the Madison area, could have as many as 20 employees here in a couple of years, said Tom Foti, vice president and general manager of the local operation.