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Six years after philanthropist Jerry Frautschi announced that he would donate $50 million to build a world-class arts center in downtown Madison, the Overture Center opens, though not before Frauts...
The University of Wisconsin announces that in the next day's issue of "Science," researcher James Thomson will reveal that he has successfully cultured and sustained human embyronic stem cells in t...
On a Sunday afternoon, a mentally ill man walked onto a Madison Metro bus with a bucket full of gasoline. Thirty minutes later, he splashed the gasoline on fellow passengers and the driver, then li...
After decades of debate, Madison opens a convention center first proposed by famed architecht Frank Lloyd Wright. The final design, though not designed by Wright himself, was inspired by his work.
A mentally disturbed man opens fire with a rifle in the City-County Building, killing Dane County Coroner Clyde Chamberlain, 62, one of the most popular office holders in the county's history, and ...
Four young men leave a van filled with explosives outside Sterling Hall and flee, making a warning call that failed to empty the building. They intended to target the upstairs Army Math Research Ce...
On Dec. 10, 1967, Otis Redding and his band were booked for back-to-back shows at the Factory, a club then located on Gorham Street. They never played them. At about 3:30 p.m., Redding's Beechcraft...
University of Wisconsin students protesting the presence of Dow Chemical (the maker of napalm) recruiting future employees on campus find themselves under attack by baton-wielding officers of the M...
On a bitterly cold morning, a flame from a gas jet used for late-night lighting in the Capitol started a small fire on the recently varnished ceiling of a cloakroom adjoining the Assembly post offi...
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