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  • Wis. emergency planners learning from Okla. tornado disaster

    The devastated schools in Moore, Okla., resonate with structural engineers still analyzing leveled schools from the Joplin, Mo., tornado two years ...

  • Wisconsin Lutheran plans five-story residence hall

    Faced with increased enrollment, Wisconsin Lutheran College plans to build a five-story residence hall for around 200 students on Milwaukee's far west side. The building is planned for the south side of the 8900 block of W. Wisconsin Ave., where the college owns four apartment buildings that house 48 students. Those buildings would be demolished to make way for the new residence hall, said ...

  • Tornado among strongest storms to hit US

    The tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs this week ranks among the strongest storms ever to strike the United States, packing powerful winds that topped 200 ...

  • Search for Okla. tornado survivors nearly complete

    MOORE, Okla. (AP) Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children. Scientists concluded the storm was a rare and extraordinarily powerful type of twister known as an EF5, ranking it at ...

  • Oakfield residents feel for those in Oklahoma

    It's been nearly 17 years since that July night when a massive tornado tore through the heart of Oakfield. But for those who survived the storm, the memories are still ...

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Ghosts of the Abyss [Blu-Ray]

Six years after writing and directing Titanic (1997), one of the most popular films of the last few decades, James Cameron returned to the story of the ill-fated luxury liner that was supposed to be unsinkable, except this time as a documentarian attempting to create ... ...

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  • Brookfield church sending crew to tornado scene

    BROOKFIELD - A team from Elmbrook Church in Brookfield is preparing to help with the Oklahoma disaster area this weekend. They had originally planned to head to Texas for relief work when the storm hit. "[They] stopped us and said do not come Sunday. Storms are going to going through that area," says team leader Mary Ann Lee. The group from Wisconsin would have arrived in Oklahoma ...

  • Wisconsin natives were close by when deadly tornado struck

    MILWAUKEE – Imagine being close to a terrifying tornado. It’s something Wisconsin native Tim Marquis does, for fun. "You just want to get those rare opportunities to see that kind of power and that kind of weather in action," Marquis said. Marquis, now a graduate student at Iowa State University, is fascinated by tornadoes. He and some college friends decided to chase the ...

  • Pfister Vogel relatives sue Mequon woman alleging $1 million fraud

    Three granddaughters of Charles Pfister Vogel, a Milwaukee industrial titan and civic leader of the early 20th century, have sued a Mequon woman who they say defrauded their mother and her estate of more than $1 million in a series of transactions and legal maneuvers that have also drawn the attention of federal agents with the FBI and IRS. Carleen Vogel Guenther died last year at age 75. Her ...

  • Change would reverse declining funding for child support enforcement

    Madison -- A trend of declining funding for local child support enforcement would be reversed, putting the pressure back on deadbeat parents and safeguarding millions of dollars in endangered federal money, under a proposal unanimosly approved by the Legislature's budget committee Tuesday. The GOP co-chairs of the Legislature's powerful Joint Finance Committee, Rep. John Nygren of ...

  • Wisconsin hospitals have reduced deadly type of infection

    Painstaking work by Wisconsin hospitals in recent years has sharply lowered the occurrence of one of the most deadly types of infections: those from central lines used to deliver fluids, medication and blood to patients. Infections in intensive care units from central lines -- tubes placed in a large vein in a patient's neck, chest or arm -- were 56% lower last year compared with a ...

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