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  • 5 injured after car strikes Milwaukee bus shelter

    President Barack Obama in a major counterterrorism speech Thursday defended the American drone program, saying that despite the controversies around it, the strikes are legal and save lives. Obama said the use of lethal force extends to U.S. citizens ...

  • Car crashes into bus shelter at least four people injured

    MILWAUKEE - Four people were injured after a car struck a bus shelter by 27th and Hope, two blocks north of Capitol, Wednesday morning just before 11:30 a.m. "A 1998 Buick LeSabre driven by a 37-year-old Milwaukee man veered off the road, stuck a bus shelter, and then struck a building," said Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer with Milwaukee Police. Stanmeyer said four people were taken to ...

  • Obama says US at crossroads in terror fight

    President Barack Obama in a major counterterrorism speech Thursday defended the American drone program, saying that despite the controversies around it, the strikes are legal and save ...

  • Wisconsin wasting money on underused highway projects watchdog says

    Seven Wisconsin highways built in the last 20 years are underused, raising questions about the more than a billion dollars they cost taxpayers, according to a report ...

  • UW-Madison seeks limits on open records to protect research

    The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking to limit the state's open records law -- potentially through language slipped into the state budget -- to keep from the public information about research until it is published or patented. No specific incidents of harmful disclosures were cited ...

Movie Review

Zoolander [DVD]

Zoolander [DVD]

The unstated joke throughout Zoolander, Ben Stiller's humorously surreal comedy about the fashion industry, is that the two leads, Stiller and Owen Wilson, who play competing male supermodels, look nothing like male supermodels. ...

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  • WISN 12 News wins May evening newscast ratings period

    WISN 12 News, weekdays at 10 p.m., is the #1 newscast in southeastern Wisconsin for the second consecutive May ratings period. WISN 12 leads with an 8.9 household rating, followed by WTMJ (6.0), WITI (5.7) and WDJT (5.6). This is the station's widest lead in this late evening news competition in Milwaukee ratings ...

  • Police 2 additional arrests in UK hacking death

    Police made two additional arrests Thursday as part of their investigation into the slaying of a soldier killed in Woolwich, London Metropolitan police said on the department's official Twitter ...

  • Abele Barrett Walker come together for business opening in Milwaukee

    MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele came together to help break ground on a new business center in the city. They made sure to put politics aside at the opening of Data Holdings, on North 31st Street and West Highland Avenue. "Jobs aren't Republican or Democratic jobs, they're just jobs," ...

  • Melvin Not a believer in immediate small changes but Brewers performance must change

    iContribute: Share your Brewers fan photos! MILWAUKEE - "We've got to start playing better baseball," said Milwaukee Brewers general manager Doug Melvin on 620WTMJ's "Wisconsin's Morning News." That demand seems obvious ...

  • Reuters shows schools in Wisconsin U.S. near potentially explosive facilities

    The Austin Powder Company, which was listed as an ammonium nitrate storage facility in 2012, is within a mile of Pleasant View Elementary School in Franklin, according to the Reuters news agency. Three schools are within a mile of Royster Clark Inc. in Madison, according to Reuters. The news service published an interactive map Thursday of chemical stockpiles that it says are like the one in ...

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