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  • Milwaukees Festival City Symphony announces its 2013 - 2014 concert season.

    London Bridges on Sunday, October 6, 2013, with two works honoring and involving London. The first work is Franz Joseph Haydn's "Symphony No. 104 (London)," inspired by his time in England in 1795. The second piece, Ralph Vaughan Williams's stimulating "A London Symphony," was composed more than 100 years after Haydn's symphony and suggests sounds heard in ...

  • Republicans wont seek to restrict mining access

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Assembly Republican leaders say they will not include a provision in the state budget designed to limit public access to the proposed site of an iron ore mine near Lake Superior. Speaker Robin Vos and Majority Leader Scott Suder both said Wednesday they would not be moving ahead with the proposal. On Tuesday, Vos said the budget would be amended to allow the state ...

  • American Medical Association vote classifies obesity as a disease

    LOS ANGELES - The American Medical Association now classifies obesity as a disease. The LA Times reports the group voted to approve that decision Tuesday. The declaration recognizes obesity as a medical condition that requires treatment and prevention. The LA Times quotes an AMA member as saying it will "help change the way the medical community tackles this complex issue." Obesity ...

  • Brewers collecting school and art supplies during weekend game

    MILWAUKEE - The Brewers Community Drive for Charity will be collecting school and art supplies during their games this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. According to the team, each fan that donates will receive a collectible Brewers player pin of pitcher Chris Narveson. Fans should drop off their items from the time the gates open through the second inning of each of the games this weekend. The ...

  • Wis. public workers might pay more for retirement

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Public employees in Wisconsin could see another increase in the contribution rates they pay into the Wisconsin Retirement ...

Movie Review

127 Hours [Blu-Ray]

127 Hours [Blu-Ray]

For his first film since winning multiple Oscars for the unlikely, crowd-pleasing hit Slumdog Millionaire (2008), director Danny Boyle set himself a fundamental cinematic challenge: How do you maintain visual and narrative interest in a story that is fundamentally about enforced stasis ... ...

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  • Feds again leave empty-handed in Hoffa hunt

    The search in a field near Detroit for ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa ended Wednesday, and as with so many past attempts to find him, authorities walked away empty-handed, the FBI ...

  • Sex offender drops from monitoring for months by letting GPS battery go dead

    A Milwaukee man with a history of sexual assault convictions is finally headed to prison, after months of refusing to charge his monitoring bracelet effectively took him off electronic supervision. Christopher L. Wright, 29, was found delinquent in 1995 for first degree sexual assault of a child. In 2002, he had prison terms of five and seven years for separate sexual assaults of a 13-year-old ...

  • Jewel radiates spirit at sold out show in Milwaukee at Northern Lights Theater

    Northern Lights Theater and by all measures it was an emotionally charged and soulfully rendered display of musicality that brought fresh resonance to her catalog of greatest hits. Performing solo with just her voice and acoustic guitar, Jewel harkened back to her roots when she was playing to establish herself in coffee shops, hoping to break into the business and carry on the rich legacy of ...

  • Wisconsin woman gashed bludgeoned 27 times

    A medical examiner has testified that a slain 78-year-old Wisconsin woman was struck at least 27 times with sharp and blunt objects. Fond du Lac County Medical Examiner Doug Kelley testified Tuesday at the homicide trial of 14-year-old Nathan Paape of Sheboygan. Kelley performed the autopsy on Barbara Olson, who was killed in her Sheboygan Falls home last September. Kelly said his number is ...

  • Wisconsin Assembly set to pass state budget

    The state Assembly is scheduled to vote on passing the state budget after debate barely got off the ground on Tuesday. The vote on passage is scheduled to happen at 5 p.m. Wednesday. The Assembly was scheduled to spend all day Tuesday on the plan, but discussions among Republicans on more than two dozen changes caused a delay. Lawmakers spent only 15 minutes debating the plan as talks dragged ...

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