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  • Sheboygan priest wants to encourage more transparency in child sex abuse cases

    The Rev. Jim Connell of St. Clement's Church in Sheboygan is prepared to become an outspoken advocate for victims of sex abuse within the Catholic ...

  • Neighbors complain about Echo Lake Foods noise

    Concrete and rebar are being ground up and recycled at the old Echo Lake Foods plant in Burlington. It's the final step in bringing the building down after fire destroyed it in January and 300 people lost their ...

  • Heavy Urban Rescue Team trains for disasters

    MILWAUKEE - Firefighters and other first responders are still digging through tons of rubble. It's an exhausting and dangerous job. Timing is everything for the Heavy Urban Rescue Team. Captain Troy Klemstein knows exactly what the search and rescue teams are up against in Moore, Oklahoma. He shows the extremely sensitive listening devices teams are using to hear people buried in rubble . ...

  • Parking police seek automated system to write tickets

    MILWAUKEE - Parking checkers made the city of Milwaukee $22.1 million last year from parking tickets, though the city agency in charge of parking enforcement thinks it can do better. Public documents obtained by the I-TEAM show the city lamenting over declining revenue from parking tickets. One document reads, "...since 2010, overall on-street parking revenues have fallen." But the ...

  • Wheatland reacts to Oklahoma tornado

    Most people would drive through the town of Wheatland in Kenosha County and see the American Dream. But in January of 2008, it was a nightmare when a tornado ripped through the ...

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Ghosts of the Abyss [Blu-Ray]

Six years after writing and directing Titanic (1997), one of the most popular films of the last few decades, James Cameron returned to the story of the ill-fated luxury liner that was supposed to be unsinkable, except this time as a documentarian attempting to create ... ...

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  • Oakland Raiders sign former Packers DB Charles Woodson

    Charles Woodson: 'At this point, I want to play football' OAKLAND - The Oakland Raiders have announced they have signed former Packers player Charles Woodson. "The Oakland Raiders have signed free agent defensive back Charles Woodson," the team tweeted Tuesday ...

  • Wis. emergency planners learning from Okla. tornado disaster

    The devastated schools in Moore, Okla., resonate with structural engineers still analyzing leveled schools from the Joplin, Mo., tornado two years ...

  • Wisconsin Lutheran plans five-story residence hall

    Faced with increased enrollment, Wisconsin Lutheran College plans to build a five-story residence hall for around 200 students on Milwaukee's far west side. The building is planned for the south side of the 8900 block of W. Wisconsin Ave., where the college owns four apartment buildings that house 48 students. Those buildings would be demolished to make way for the new residence hall, said ...

  • Tornado among strongest storms to hit US

    The tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs this week ranks among the strongest storms ever to strike the United States, packing powerful winds that topped 200 ...

  • Search for Okla. tornado survivors nearly complete

    MOORE, Okla. (AP) Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children. Scientists concluded the storm was a rare and extraordinarily powerful type of twister known as an EF5, ranking it at ...

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