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  • Wis. Innocence Project helps homicide inmate go free

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Milwaukee man who won a new trial after being convicted of homicide and sentenced to a life term has instead reached a plea deal that made him a free man this week. Twenty-seven-year-old Seneca Malone could have tried to clear his name by contesting a renewed homicide charge. Instead he pleaded no contest to a lesser charge of negligent homicide. Defense attorney Jerome ...

  • Mother speaks about MPD officer shooting her son

    Police: Suspect accidentally shot near Milwaukee day care center MILWAUKEE - The mother of the robbery suspect Milwaukee Police said was accidentally shot by an officer wants the department to explain exactly how the cop’s gun fired after her son surrendered. Sheldon Gainer is awaiting charges, and is still recovering from a gunshot to his thigh. It’s an injury Milwaukee ...

  • How safe are Air National Guard KC-135s

    National Guard plane makes emergency landing Friday MILWAUKEE - Are the lives of our service men and women in danger? It’s a question you’ve raised after the fourth emergency landing for the 128th Air Refueling Wing this year. A KC-135 jet engine was forced to land outside of Indianapolis at Grissom Air Reserve Base Tuesday, after one of its hydraulic systems failed. Col. ...

  • Sopranos actor dead at 51

    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- James Gandolfini, whose portrayal of a brutal, emotionally delicate mob boss in HBO's "The Sopranos" helped create one of TV's greatest drama series and turned the mobster stereotype on its head, died Wednesday in Italy. He was 51. In a statement, the cable channel, and Gandolfini's managers Mark Armstrong and Nancy Sanders, said he died Wednesday ...

  • Health groups oppose Wisconsin bill barring gun inquiries

    Health organizations say a Wisconsin bill that would prohibit doctors from asking patients whether they own guns would interfere with the doctor-patient relationship. Under the proposal from Republican Rep. Michael Schraa, doctors except for psychiatrists who violated the ban could face a $25,000 fine or nine months in prison. "Owning a firearm, or not owning a firearm, is a personal ...

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Flags of Our Fathers

Flags of Our Fathers

In Flags of Our Fathers, producer/director Clint Eastwood resurrects the specter of World War II, not for a simplistic celebration of the momentous sacrifices of the Greatest Generation, but rather to question the nature of heroism. Like any symbol, heroes are socia ... ...

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  • Brewers try to bounce back against Astros without Braun Aoki

    Milwaukee Brewers Rickie Weeks (23) hits the third out in the bottom of the 8th stranding runners and the score tied 3-3 during the MLB baseball game between the Milwaukee Brewers and San Francisco Giants at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Journal Sentinel photo by RICK WOOD/ ...

  • School district fights state legislatures push to expand vouchers

    MEQUON - Shawn Osowski is a dad and plans to keep his kids in public schools, even if the state passes an expanded voucher program. "I’m pro public schools." Mequon-Thiensville School Superintendent Demond Means is making a last minute plea to lawmakers to reconsider expanding school vouchers. "This is bad government. This is not the way we should invest our ...

  • TMZ Sopranos Actor James Gandolfini Dead

    The celebrity website TMZ reports that James Gandolfini, best known for his role as Tony Soprano on "The Sopranos", died earlier today in Italy.The website says Gandolfini is believed to have suffered a heart attack. He was 51 years old. Gandolfini was in Italy to attend the 59th Taormina Film Festival in Sicily and he was scheduled to participate in a festival event this weekend. ...

  • Milwaukee Brewers coverage on your smartphone

    Stay up to date on the Milwaukee Brewers wherever you are with "Milwaukee Baseball," the Journal Sentinel's new mobile site for smartphones. Just go to your phone's browser and type in the web ...

  • 4-year-old child struck after running into street

    NEW AT FIVE A CHILD IS HIT BY A CAR NEAR 20TH AND STATE IN MILWAUKEE. THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND ONE O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON. WITNESSES SAY THE FOUR-YEAR OLD BOY RAN INTO TRAFFIC FROM BETWEEN TWO PARKED CARS, BUT APPEARED TO BE CONSCIOUS AFTER BEING HIT. 15:20:55 THEY SAY HE MOVED HIS ARMS AND EVERYTHING BUT WE DON'T KNOW UNTIL THE HOSPITAL LET PEOPLE KNOW THE DRIVER REMAINED AT ...

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