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  • WISN to hold Tornado Relief donation drive

    WISN 12 and the American Red Cross will hold a donation drive Tuesday afternoon beginning at 4 p.m. The phone bank donation number will be published this afternoon, and operators will take your donations. Watch for live coverage of the donation drive this afternoon on WISN 12 News and on ...

  • Proposal to sell state properties up for vote

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A wide-reaching change that would allow the state to sell off properties ranging from prisons and power plants to University of Wisconsin dormitories and state highways is up for approval before the Legislature's budget committee. Gov. Scott Walker is proposing the provision as part of his state budget up for a vote Tuesday in the Legislature's Joint Finance ...

  • Okla. tornado death toll revised down to at least 24

    A massive, howling tornado pulverized a vast swath of the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, chewing up homes and businesses, and severely damaging a hospital and two elementary ...

  • Watchdog group accused of showing Democratic bias with fundraiser

    its website , the Democracy Campaign describes itself as "a nonprofit, nonpartisan political watchdog group dedicated to clean government." But at noon Saturday, the Vilas County Democratic ...

  • Ex-Navy man denied UWM job welcomes ruling for other veterans

    A Waukesha man who lost out on a good job with the University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin after it decided he didn't qualify for the veteran's preference because he left the Navy for "bad conduct" says he's happy the Court of Appeals has ruled against the college. "I did what the VA told me and ended up in the middle of something I didn't expect," Mark ...

Movie Review

Trouble in Paradise [DVD]

Trouble in Paradise [DVD]

Ernst Lubitsch was a German migr who began as a silent film actor and became one of the most celebrated and popular Hollywood directors of the 1930s and early 40s. The reason for his popularity and critical acclaim was the fabled Lubitsch Touch, which began as a publicity term but slowly grew in legend to describe the indescribablehow Lubitsch could take material that, in any other directors hand ... ...

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  • Wis. panel to hear bill limiting local recalls

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- It would be harder to recall a local Wisconsin elected official from office under a proposal up for a hearing before a legislative committee. The Republican-sponsored bill is up for a hearing Tuesday before the Assembly's Committee on Campaigns and Elections. It would require anyone who petitions to recall a city, village, town, town sanitary district, or school ...

  • Housing rebound continues in Wisconsin

    MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Housing sales in Wisconsin continue to rebound. April brings a 22nd consecutive month of growth with sales up 9 percent compared to the month previous. The median price for existing homes rose 8 percent. The Wisconsin Realtors Association president Michael Theo says the supply of homes has decreased and low mortgage rates have attracted more people to the market. The Journal ...

  • More than dozen fire departments battle fire housing businesses

    SAUK CITY, Wis. (AP) -- Firefighters from more than a dozen departments helped Sauk City put out a fire in a building that houses a hardware, small engine and tire store. Investigators will be looking for the cause of the three-alarm fire that started late Monday and burned into the early morning hours Tuesday. WMTV-TV ...

  • Plans announced for Donald Driver statue

    Big welcome planned today for Donald Driver in Grafton GREEN BAY - Plans are in place to transform a famous Packers statue into Donald Driver. Work will begin this week to turn the statue outside Titletown Brewing Company into Donald Driver. Driver himself is scheduled to be at the official unveiling sometime in mid June. Pearl Street, where Titletown Brewing is located, will also soon be ...

  • Fiscal bureau says health care changes could be costly to taxpayers

    The Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau said that a budget provision that would offer state employees options for high-deductible health insurance and health savings accounts is likely to raise costs to taxpayers, not reduce them as the Walker administration ...

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