Congress wants to help protect seniors who buy complex investment products that they don't understand or may do more harm than good.
A man carrying an assault rifle walked out of the woods and shot four young people who had gathered at a river to go swimming, killing three of them and wounding one
Both candidates for a hotly contested state race in Wisconsin agree the campaign has become nasty, but that's about the only thing they agree on.
Dear FSB: I run a small tavern in Wisconsin from mid-April through mid-November. I do not collect sales tax from the customers, but do pay in monthly to the state. Does this become a business expense deduction on Schedule C?
John McCain still has trouble with GOP voters who consider themselves "very conservative," but his strength among moderates and those who say they are only "somewhat conservative" made up for the deficit among the more orthodox in Tuesday's GOP primary in Wisconsin, exit polls showed.
After his tenth consecutive win in Hawaii, Obama hopes to keep his momentum going - while Clinton tries to stop it
Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are courting one-time rival John Edwards as they move forward in the delegate-by-delegate fight for their party's nomination.
Greetings, Hoop Thinkers. The action on the court is slow this week because of finals (thank the Lord I'll never have to take another one of those babies). So today, you get to join me at the table of a smart, civil hoops conversation as I dip into my mailbag for the first time this season.
It is a common way for business schools to secure their future: In exchange for a substantial bequest from a former student or other benefactor the school is re-named in their honor.
The pumpkins made all the difference.
Congress wants to help protect seniors who buy complex investment products that they don't understand or may do more harm than good.
A man carrying an assault rifle walked out of the woods and shot four young people who had gathered at a river to go swimming, killing three of them and wounding one
Both candidates for a hotly contested state race in Wisconsin agree the campaign has become nasty, but that's about the only thing they agree on.
Dear FSB: I run a small tavern in Wisconsin from mid-April through mid-November. I do not collect sales tax from the customers, but do pay in monthly to the state. Does this become a business expense deduction on Schedule C?
John McCain still has trouble with GOP voters who consider themselves "very conservative," but his strength among moderates and those who say they are only "somewhat conservative" made up for the deficit among the more orthodox in Tuesday's GOP primary in Wisconsin, exit polls showed.
After his tenth consecutive win in Hawaii, Obama hopes to keep his momentum going - while Clinton tries to stop it
Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are courting one-time rival John Edwards as they move forward in the delegate-by-delegate fight for their party's nomination.
Greetings, Hoop Thinkers. The action on the court is slow this week because of finals (thank the Lord I'll never have to take another one of those babies). So today, you get to join me at the table of a smart, civil hoops conversation as I dip into my mailbag for the first time this season.
It is a common way for business schools to secure their future: In exchange for a substantial bequest from a former student or other benefactor the school is re-named in their honor.
The pumpkins made all the difference.
A couple weeks ago, my editor called with an idea, simple yet beguiling: a baseball road trip through the Midwest in the heat of August. The plan: Six teams in four days in three cities, with an eye toward the NL Central race. Go forth and explore baseball country, the editor said, and then he used a bunch of words that East Coasters like to invoke when talking about the Midwest, like "Americana" and "heartland" and "cheese curds." I told him I would do my best.
Another round of thunderstorms brought more rain and a flash-flood warning to an already deluged southwestern Wisconsin on Monday, forcing residents below four dams to evacuate.
Around this time each year, as the graduation season winds down and the wedding season goes into full gear, I get a lot of questions along the following lines: "Do you know of a good gift for my niece/son/goddaughter who just got engaged/got married/ graduated from law school/landed that first job?"
Two storm systems colliding along the nation's midsection set off a spate of weather warnings from Colorado to Ohio as the deadly combination moved toward the Great Lakes on Wednesday.
Severe storms deluged parts of the upper Midwest during the night with as much as a foot of rain, causing flooding that washed away bridges and roads and killed at least four people, authorities said Sunday.
Wildfires have long been feared for their potentially devastating impact on the landscape and people's lives. Technology, improved firefighting techniques and better coordination among agencies have reduced the number of lives lost, but the blazes can still cause widespread destruction.
There may not be a better off-campus house in America than the one that Wisconsin senior tackle Joe Thomas shares with five teammates in Madison. Miller Lite tap in the kitchen, poker room in the basement, John Belushi poster on the TV room wall and -- everyone's favorite -- padded red bra hanging from the antlers of a six-point trophy buck. "I was just doing laundry one day, and it snuck its way into my clothes," Badgers defensive back Ben Strickland says mischievously while watching Pardon the Interruption from the depths of a recliner. In Thomas's room upstairs, his laptop rests on homemade legs: four rolls of toilet paper. In the backyard there's a hot tub, a hammock and a couch. The best in late-night college carryout is within stumbling distance on Madison's busy streets.
Underrated: Oregon It was easy to dismiss the Ducks during the middle of the Pac-10 season when their defensive deficiencies were glaring and the losses piled up, but Ernie Kent's crew has righted the ship while adding even more weapons on the offensive end. How many guys can score on you? Let's see: Aaron Brooks, Bryce Taylor, Malik Hairston and Tajuan Porter. What's more, Maarty Leunen is just the sort of rebounding wide-body big man who'll make things tough for Notre Dame's Luke Harangody in Round 2 and Wisconsin's Brian Butch-less interior guys in Round 3.
In the search for a new No. 1, now that Florida and Wisconsin have fallen, the logical thing to do -- if you subscribe to the Coaches' poll's logic of "bumping" teams up the ranks -- would be to grant the throne to Ohio State. The Buckeyes are the coaches' current No. 1 and the AP's No. 2, yet I have reservations about bumping them up to my top spot.
This week marks the midway point of conference play, when college hoops heads into the final turn toward March. Here are seven pressing questions facing the field.
In the next 800 words, you're going to meet my new favorite coach. But first you have to guess who he is.
Jumping into a heated free-speech dispute a year before the presidential primaries, the Supreme Court on Friday accepted a pair of appeals over a sweeping campaign-finance reform law that limits "issue ads."
My job is always a lot of fun, but there are some weeks when it really, really doesn't suck. This week was one of them, as I hit the road for two highly anticipated matchups. I was in Madison on Tuesday to see Wisconsin defeat Ohio State 72-69. On Wednesday night, I was in Lawrence, Kan., to watch the Jayhawks whup up on Oklahoma State, 87-57.
If you're looking for a colorful culinary destination, try one of these six roadside attractions.
This is a column about poop: cow manure that can be turned into electricity, "green" baby diapers that can be put in the toilet and waterless urinals that don't flush.
A full 30 years before there was a maverick John McCain, R-Arizona, in the U.S. Senate, there was maverick Bill Proxmire, D-Wisconsin.
The bodies of a father and his 9-year-old daughter were pulled from an ice-covered pond in Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, on Friday, hours after they fell through, authorities said.
A Wisconsin high school band director, his wife and his granddaughter were among the five people killed when a charter bus carrying students returning from a state marching band competition crashed into an overturned semi-truck early Sunday, police said.
A man who witnessed the tornado that swept through a Wisconsin neighborhood, flattening homes and leaving one man dead, said "the sky just exploded" as the twister moved in.
Jane Chen was a well-paid Wisconsin anesthesiologist. But at the age of 43, she decided to stay home with her three school-age children.
A teenage girl who was abused as a child and convinced Wisconsin lawmakers to make public the records of juvenile sex offenders, urged Congress Thursday to create similar federal regulation.
What is life like on a farm that doesn't benefit from federal subsidies? A lot more entrepreneurial, it seems. An increasing number of independent-minded farmers have kicked the subsidized-crop hab...
As many as three-quarters of U.S. homeowners are carrying insurance policies that don't cover replacement cost if a fire or storm levels their house, according to a study released in 2002 by Wisconsin construction-data firm Marshall & Swift/Boeckh.
The killings of six hunters last weekend in northwestern Wisconsin is more of a "whydunit" than a "whodunit," a lawyer for the suspect in those shootings said Sunday.
The weekend shootings of a group of deer hunters in northwestern Wisconsin claimed a sixth life Monday, hospital officials and the man's family said.
Sheriff's deputies are investigating the killings of five hunters Sunday in northwest Wisconsin -- bloodshed apparently sparked by a dispute over a hunting spot. A suspect has been arrested.
Sheriff's deputies were investigating the killings of five hunters Sunday in northwestern Wisconsin, apparently sparked by a hunting dispute that turned violent.
President Bush and John Kerry both woke up today in Wisconsin. They'll both end the day in Iowa. Same states, same voters, two very different men, who'll spend every second of Tuesday showing those heartland battlegrounders just how far apart they really can be.
One pitch appeals to young adults' independent streaks, such as the voter registration initiative "Declare Yourself."
Searching for some of that Wisconsin magic John Kerry found before last week's debate, President Bush heads to Badgerland today to prep for tomorrow's Missouri Mow-Down. It's the president's fourth visit in as many days to a Gore state. (Message: confidence.)
It's way early, but our educated gut tells us the zingers emerging from the Melee in Miami on Thursday will sound something like this:
A great horned owl named Minerva is making history in the treetops of eastern Wisconsin. At least, her eyes are. Veterinarians say she's the only animal in the world, in the wild, with surgically implanted artificial lenses.
Sen. John Kerry beat back a strong challenge from Sen. John Edwards to win the Wisconsin presidential primary on Tuesday.
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The economy was the top issue among voters in Wisconsin's presidential primary Tuesday, and trade in particular emerged as an issue that resonated with them, according to exit polls.
CNN political analysts and contributors examine the campaigns of the Democratic presidential hopefuls and the potential impact of the Wisconsin primary.
If it's Tuesday, it must be another big win for John Kerry, who's poised to cruise to victory in Wisconsin tonight. This morning, Kerry draws support from the 19-union, 5 million-member Alliance for Economic Justice, the trade-and-jobs wing of the AFL-CIO.
A young woman who has been the subject of Internet and talk show radio gossip about an alleged affair with U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry came forward Monday to deny it.
CNN projects Sen. John Kerry will win Wisconsin's presidential primary in a narrow victory over Sen. John Edwards.
When pictures from NASA's Mars rovers were beamed back to Earth, many were disappointed by the absence of images of alien life. For those of us who support the search for E.T., our attention must continue to focus here on our home planet.
The floundering presidential campaign of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean faced new disarray Monday when his campaign chairman departed after saying publicly that he would jump ship if Dean doesn't win Tuesday's Wisconsin primary.
Much like you, we're nostalgic for the heady days of January, when this race was still a race, before the Kerry Comeback became the Kerry Coronation. So, like you, we look forward to the Showdown in Sheboygan, what Howard Dean vows will be the mother of all comebacks in Wisconsin.
Presidential hopeful Howard Dean is looking to reshape the Democratic presidential race in the Wisconsin primary next week.
Sen. John Edwards Saturday picked up his first union endorsement in Wisconsin, a state that could become a critical battleground in the race for the Democratic nomination.
A lot of last year's biggest stock market highfliers have lately been doing excellent Howard Dean imitations. And it's unclear whether they can regroup and take Wisconsin.
Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean, struggling to regain momentum in his campaign, told supporters Thursday that his viability as a candidate hinges on a win in Wisconsin.
The fund scandal has revealed a surprising flaw in state-run college savings plans, which manage $26 billion in assets. Nearly every state has its own tax-free 529 plan; most are open to investors ...
Bucky Badger has had a rough year. After a decade of winning ways, the University of Wisconsin's mascot has watched his football team slip to the bottom of the Big Ten this season. And on a recent ...
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If you're from most states, figuring out where your Senate candidates stand on the local issues may be relatively simple. If you're from Wisconsin, you consider their positions on the dairy industr...
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