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  • Investigations into college students disappearance bank robbery continue

    Jessica Benson, 22, was reported missing on May 14. There is also an ongoing investigation into a bank robbery that occurred at 70th Street and Appleton Avenue days before she disappeared. Kevin Blackburn, 25, of Milwaukee, appeared in court Wednesday facing bank robbery charges in connection with a robbery of the Educators Credit Union on May 7. Charges have also been filed against another ...

  • Aaron Rodgers Its time to let the healing process begin toward Brett Favre

    Packers want Favre 'back in the family' GREEN BAY - Aaron Rodgers has taken another step to end any bad feelings Packers fans have toward former quarterback Brett Favre. Rodgers appeared on the Jim Rome Show Wednesday, and according to NFL.com, said he would be "excited" if Brett Favre is inducted into the Hall of Fame, and his number is retired with the Packers. ...

  • Wisconsin budget panel limits challenges to large wells

    The Legislature's budget writing committee set aside fiscal issues for a time this week to take up the increasingly contentious issue of high-capacity wells and whether state regulators should consider the effect of a large well on others nearby. At the end of Tuesday's deliberations, the Republican-controlled panel voted, 12-4, in favor of a motion that would bar persons from ...

  • GE unveils software that solves MRI blind-spot problem

    Not long after going to work for GE Healthcare, Kevin Koch was playing around with a magnetic resonance scanner when an idea came to him that might solve a vexing problem in imaging: The technology produces poor images near metal implants, such as those used for artificial hips and knees, now in millions of people. Koch, a Delafield native who earned a doctorate in physics from Yale ...

  • Wanted McHenry County Fugitive Nabbed In Milwaukee

    MILWAUKEE (STMW) — The list of Top Ten fugitives in McHenry County got shorter after a man wanted for the sexual abuse of a girl was captured by police and federal agents in Milwaukee. On Nov. 8, 2012, Algonquin police obtained an arrest warrant for Brandon A. Williams of Milwaukee for sexually abusing and choking a juvenile girl, a statement from the McHenry County Sheriff's office ...

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Blu-Ray]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Blu-Ray]

While the title would seem to suggest a story of relative modesty, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is anything but. Running nearly three hours in length and spanning some 80 years of American history, from World War I to Hurricane Katrina, ... ...

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  • Disaster relief groups struggling to manage non-cash donations

    Two major disaster relief agencies said workers are struggling to manage an overload of well-meaning donations of goods meant for Oklahoma tornado ...

  • DOT proposes double-decker freeway on part of I-94

    One of those proposals is a double-decker freeway, but the plan does not sit well with everyone. The view from Lee Brady's living room is the envy of any Brewers fan. Her Story Hill home next to I-94 overlooks Miller Park, and she wants to keep that view. But she and other residents worry if the DOT creates a double-decker stretch of freeway, her neighborhood will suffer. "It would be ...

  • Man attempting to outrun FBI had to be lowered from building by a stretcher

    MILWAUKEE - There was commotion in downtown Milwaukee after the corners of Third and Highland Avenue were blocked off Wednesday morning. Police and the FBI attempted to serve a warrant to a man staying in an apartment above Tutto's Restaurant. The man attempted to flee from them in his underwear. He tried using a fire escape but was caught. Milwaukee Fire assisted in lowering the man ...

  • Lake Geneva architect says his buildings withstand tornadoes

    LAKE GENEVA - After seeing the devastation in Oklahoma, veteran architect D. Thomas Kincaid wanted to tell us about a building design he contends could survive a tornado. In his Lake Geneva home, Kincaid showed TODAY'S TMJ4 reporter Tom Murray renderings and plans for monolithic domes. Essentially, they are upside down concrete bowls reinforced with steel. "Monolithic means one. ...

  • Settlement to compensate Wisconsin e-book customers

    Wisconsin consumers will be compensated for overpaying for e-books and may benefit from lower prices in the future, as a result of a settlement that top justice officials have reached with Penguin Group, officials announced Wednesday. Attorneys general in 33 states, including Wisconsin, reached a settlement in a lawsuit against Penguin that accused the company of fixing prices in collusion with ...

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