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Flags At Half Staff For Milwaukee-Area Soldier
HALES CORNERS, Wis. -- Flags at Wisconsin National Guard armories, air bases and other facilities are flying at half staff Tuesday in honor of a Milwaukee-area soldier killed in Afghanistan.A...


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Man Accused Of Racially Motivated Shooting At Red Box
A Milwaukee man is accused of shooting a woman with a pellet gun at a Red Box movie dispenser because of her race. A criminal complaint says 35-year-old Robert Malczewski told investigators he was...
Harley Workers Consider New Offer with Pay Freeze, Seasonal Workers
WAUKESHA - Workers from Harley-Davidson are looking at the company's new contract offer, which includes a seven-year pay freeze and the use of seasonal workers. Those employees have taken part in...
Winds Topple Tree in 'Tosa onto Elderly Man
An elderly man in Wauwatosa was injured when a tree or large tree branch was blown down by gusty winds, landing on top of him. An assistant fire chief tells us the man was taken to the hospital. The...
Nicolet Students Register at Flooded School
GLENDALE - Nicolet High School is finally returning back to normal, with the first day of school less than a week away. On Tuesday, students came inside and registered. The Brew City Flood of...
Nearly 2,000 We Energies Customers Without Power
MILWAUKEE - We Energies says that the effects of today's winds have played a part in nearly 2,000 customers losing power this afternoon. Spokesman Brian Manthey said that a tree or tree branch in...
Young Boys Caused Houses To Catch Fire
FOND DU LAC - Fond du Lac Police and Fire investigators say that two kids who had been playing with matches and paper towels started a fire at a garage that spread to two houses over the weekend. ...
UWM Sex Assault Suspect in Court
MILWAUKEE - Jury selection starts Tuesday in the trial for Joel Hoffman. Hoffman, 31, has been charged with sexually assaulting a UWM student in her off-campus apartment. Hoffman, who is from...
Court for Suspect in Deadly Hit-and-Run Crash
MILWAUKEE - The person accused in a deadly hit and run is set to go before a judge today. A preliminary hearing was set for today for Meng Her. Her, 24, has been accused of hitting and dragging...
Woods among picks to join Stricker on Ryder Cup team
(3) Comments New York — Tiger Woods is going to the Ryder Cup as a captain's pick with his 71 victories and 14 majors. So is 21-year-old Rickie Fowler, who has never won anything at all. ...
Kohl's line funds breast cancer research
products Tuesday to raise money for breast cancer research, the company said in a news release. The Simply Vera Vera Wang products, including T-shirts, pajamas, scarves, cups and other products, are...
Anchor BanCorp capital plan gains approval
of Madison said it has received conditional approval of its capital restoration plan from the financial firm's primary federal regulator, the Office of Thrift Supervision, and has consented to...
Classmates mourn death of Wisconsin sixth-grader in playground...
Grief counselors are available to students at a Waukesha County middle school today as they head back to class. Students are dealing with the death of a sixth-grader who died in a playground...
Thief Hits Coffee Shop, Takes Laptops
A Milwaukee man will not let a late night theft keep him from a popular coffee shop.The man, who does not want to be identified, said the suspect entered Alterra's Riverwest location at around 9:45...
Mequon School Closes For Mold
Oriole Lane School has been closed by the Mequon-Thiensville School District for mold.On Monday night, district officials were informed of an elevated level of mold in the northeast area of the...
Update: Wandering Girl's Mother Found
MILWAUKEE - Police have found the mother of a young girl seen wandering the streets late Monday, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. The girl was spotted at the corner of N. 27th and W. Burleigh Streets...
Harley contract calls for use of lower-paid 'casual' workers
Proposed contract for Harley-Davidson employees Harley-Davidson Inc. employees in Milwaukee will be voting on a labor contract that calls for the use of "casual," or seasonal,...
Man charged in Red Box machine shooting
Sept. 7, 2010 8:30 a.m. Authorities charged a Milwaukee man with disorderly conduct and a hate crime after shooting a BB gun that injured a woman near a south side pharmacy and that frightened...
Milwaukee job market among best in U.S.
Employers nationwide have a slightly rosier outlook on hiring heading into the fourth quarter, while the Milwaukee-area job market is expected to be among the strongest in the country, according to...
Franklin Fueling buys U.K. supplier
PetroTechnik Ltd. in a cash transaction. Financial terms were not disclosed. PetroTechnik is a U.K.-based supplier to the petroleum industry, providing petroleum piping and polyethylene containment...
Frontier Airlines traffic up 10% in August
recorded a 10 percent increase in paying passenger traffic in August on a 9 percent increase in seat capacity, the airline's parent company...
Classmates mourn death of Wisconsin sixth-grader in playground accident
Grief counselors are available to students at a Waukesha County middle school today as they head back to class. Students are dealing with the death of a sixth-grader who died in a playground...
Child Found Wandering Street Alone In Milwaukee
Milwaukee police need help identifying a child found wandering the streets alone near 27th and Burleigh.Officers found the little girl about 11:00 p.m. Monday.Anyone with information is asked to call...
Raw Video: Crash in Tosa after Police Chase
WAUWATOSA - Officers have arrested someone following a police chase that ended in Wauwatosa. The chases ended with a crash near the corner of North 85th Street and West Bluemound Avenue. The...
Man Charged with Hate Crime Shooting
MILWAUKEE - A man from Milwaukee faces charges, including a hate crime enhancer, for shooting a bb gun at a woman earlier this summer. The criminal complaint says Robert Malczewski fired an air...
Racine Police Investigate Shooting At Riverside Inn
Racine police are investigating a shooting.Police said it happened at the Riverside Inn on Northwestern Avenue and Old Mill Road just after midnight.Investigators said the man was shot and sent to...
Gusty Winds Usher In Big Change
Strong winds will howl across Wiconsin today. A Wind Advisory is in effect from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. for all of southeast Wisconsin. Winds will be sustained at 20 to 35 mph, but will gust as high as 45...
Milwaukee Police Try To Identify Girl Found Wandering
MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee Police are trying to find out the identity of a girl who was discovered wandering late Monday night in a North Side Milwaukee neighborhood. Police say that someone found the...
Raw Video: Death Threat Left on East Side Apartment Building
MILWAUKEE - People living in an east side apartment building in Milwaukee discovered that someone has not only placed graffiti on the outside of their building, but a death threat. The message...
Muskego Child Dies after Playground Injury
MUSKEGO - A Waukesha county family is mourning the loss of a child. The boy died a few days after he suffered a fluke head injury on a playground. Bay Lane Middle School 6th grader Evan Coubal is...
Shooting at Racine Hotel
RACINE - Police in Racine are investigating a shooting that happened in the city. The shooting occurred at the Riverside Inn of of Northwestern Avenue. There is no word on the condition of the...
Mequon School Closed Due To Mold
MEQUON - A second Milwaukee-area school has had to cancel classes due to mold. Oriole Lane Elementary closed its doors on Tuesday morning after school officials found mold inside. This comes...
Survey: 20% of Employers To Add Workers
MILWAUKEE - Employers in the Milwaukee area are expected to hire more workers than those who are planning cutbacks. A Manpower quarterly survey said that locally, nearly 20% of the companies...
Storm Team 4: Wind Advisory
MILWAUKEE - Heavy winds are expected throughout Southeastern Wisconsin Tuesday, so much so that the National Weather Service has issued a Wind Advisory for our area. "Winds will gradually...
4,000 We Energies Customers Without Power
MILWAUKEE - A We Energies spokesman said that about 4,000 of its customers had lost power due to a storm-related incident in southern Milwaukee County. Spokesman Barry McNulty explained that the...
2 Wisconsin men cited for drunken driving the same truck
EMMET, Wis. — Two Wisconsin men have been cited for drunken driving the same truck within minutes of each other in Marathon County. The Wausau Daily Herald reports that according to the...
WI Republicans Respond to President
MILWAUKEE - State Republicans are not on board with President Obama's 50 billion dollar plan to rebuild the nation's transportation infrastructure. "We can't trust them," says Party...
School Closed by Mold Back Open
STONE BANK- Dangerous mold shut down an elementary school, but just four days later official say it's safe for students again. Sam and Megan Peterson are enjoying their last day of no school. When...
Harley Meeting to be Held Tuesday
Harley Davidson employees will meet with union representatives Tuesday morning at the Waukesha Expo Center to discuss the details of the new contract offered by the company. Last week Harley...
Hiring outlook is improving
Rebuilding America As unexpected as it might sound in a cooling and uncertain economy, employers in metro Milwaukee are expected "to hire at a solid pace" in the final three...
Tainted wells anger residents
Power lines run from the Oak Creek coal plant. Nearby residents are waiting to find out if the plant or something else is causing contamination of their drinking...
6-year-old lived life at bat
It seemed as if Treyton Kilar was never without his baseball and glove. If you asked him his favorite class in school, he would say gym because he got to play baseball and jump around. A Brewers...
As race shuts, another may open
Special section In less than two months, the outcome of the governor's race could kick off a campaign for either Milwaukee mayor or Milwaukee County executive. It would be a sprint to a...
Companies slowly restore slashed pay
Rebuilding America Slowly and fitfully, companies have been restoring pay and benefit cuts made in the depths of the worst recession since the 1930s. The actions appear to be widespread...
State pushed for Foley before bids
(2) Comments A state agency asked for permission to hire Milwaukee-based law firm Foley & Lardner for what has turned out to be a multimillion-dollar contract before interviewing either Foley...
Neumann mostly free of interest-group cash
Submit Questions In his bid for governor, businessman Mark Neumann badly lags behind rival Republican Scott Walker in fund raising - that is, if you don't count the $2.7 million Neumann...
Beer Truck Overturns In Zoo Interchange
A beer truck overturned in the Zoo Interchange Monday night.The Milwaukee Sheriffs department said the truck spilled its load of cans at 7:33 p.m.The truck tipped over on the ramp from Westbound...
Jobs Report Looks At Wisconsin's Future
A new jobs report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison said the state has fewer jobs now than it did ten years ago.Wisconsin has lost more than 150,000 jobs since the start of the recession in...