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  • Wedding day gesture remains a mystery after nearly 32 years

    This is a story - part mystery and part mix-up - about three weddings, a cake and a fire. When one couple's reception hall burned down on the day of their wedding - Aug. 15, 1981 - the party was hastily moved to a different location, where another newly married couple gave them part of their wedding cake. But who was that generous couple? The Milwaukee Journal said in an article the next ...

  • Only Thornton can put end to MPS superintendent rumors

    Just for the fun of it, let's skip ahead and think about what would happen if Gregory Thornton departed from his job as superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools. Two years ago, I would have seen that as the opening to major upheaval in the way MPS is structured and led. I think it's still a possibility worth keeping an eye on - there are people, particularly in major positions in ...

  • Republican lawmakers may try to resurrect bail bonding

    Madison - Two years after lawmakers unsuccessfully tried to enlarge the state budget by creating a privately run bail bonds system in Wisconsin, the controversial idea could be returning. Last time, the bipartisan group of opponents included the state's judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, sheriffs and clerks of court - virtually the entire legal system. Gov. Scott Walker ultimately ...

  • Canadian Press NewsAlert Oxbow wins the Preakness Stakes

    Lisa Scotti, of Baltimore, reads hhere program before the sixth race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike ...

  • Police have questions after West Allis woman dies

    WEST ALLIS, Wis. - An apartment complex in the 74-hundred block of West Washington Street for people with mental health issues is the scene of a death investigation this weekend. Police aren't yet saying what happened to a 63 year old woman, discovered dead in the hallway outside her apartment Friday afternoon. Officers are now questioning one man, but have not said whether the two ...

Movie Review

Fritz the Cat [DVD]

Fritz the Cat [DVD]

For his first film, writer/director Ralph Bakshi decided to do what no one else had ever tried before: Create a feature-length adult cartoon. Bakshi, an animation wunderkind who was already a 10-year veteran of the Terrytoons animation studio when he was in his early 30s, teamed up with producer Steve Krantz and raised almost $1 million for the production. The result was Fritz the Cat, a f ... ...

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  • Up to 60 injured after car drives into Virginia parade

    Hiker "Quinoa" talks about being given credit for saving the lives of Carson Balckburn, Dalton Thomason, and Faith Ritchie after he ran them and others off the road with a water gun during a festival parade in Damascus, Va., on Saturday. Just as the children ran off the street, a car came down the road and struck several ...

  • Obama and Walker earn identical approval ratings in Wisconsin

    No one would mistake Scott Walker and Barack Obama for political twins. Yet in their public standing in this polarized state, they’ve come to mirror each other in striking ways. We saw it in 2012 when the two weathered Wisconsin’s turmoil and tribal division by earning the very same share of the vote (53%) five months apart. And we’re seeing the pattern persist in the off ...

  • Guide to Milwaukee summer festivals

    Fireworks light up the sky over Summerfest on opening day in 2012. The 2013 summer festival season kicks off Saturday with the Highland Games and ends with Indian Summer Festival on Sept. ...

  • Wisconsin woman injured in motorcycle crash

    A 21-year-old Wisconsin woman was injured in a motorcycle crash Saturday morning, May 18. Christin Fenter, of Eau Claire, was riding a motorcycle around a curve when it went into a ditch according to the Pierce County Sheriff's department. Fenter was ejected from the motorcycle which also hit trees. The incident occurred just before 11 a.m. near 330th Avenue on westbound U.S. 10 in Union ...

  • Green Bay police investigating a homicide

    Green Bay Press Gazette GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Green Bay police have ruled the death of a 49-year-old man a homicide. The department announced last week it was investigating a suspicious death at Daniel Kuehl's residence. Detective Capt. Todd Thomas tells the Green Bay Press-Gazette the slaying likely occurred within a week of Kuehl's body being found. Police aren't ...

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