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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 ...

Movie Review

The Pink Panther (2006)

The Pink Panther (2006)

Theres no exact formula or science to explain this particular cinematic phenomenon, but its hard to deny that certain recurring movie characters can sustain revolving actors playing the role, while there are others that are so deeply and fundamentally associated with a particula ... ...

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  • Worker seriously injured after getting trapped in cement mixer

    A worker is in critical condition after getting trapped in a cement mixing machine Thursday morning, the Milwaukee Fire Department said. Battalion 2 received a call at 7:48 a.m. about a person with an arm caught in a machine at Sic Lazaro on N. Teutonia Avenue, but while on the way, responders learned an entire person was trapped, Battalion Chief Raymond Groth said. The fire department then ...

  • Wisconsin Bill Would Require $50 Tobacco Use Fee for Health Insurance

    Wisconsin state workers who smoke would have to pay $50 more per month for health insurance under a Gov. Scott Walker proposal that has won approval by the Legislature’s budget committee. The Joint Finance Committee on voted 13-3 to approve the fee. Twelve other states currently impose similar fees but anti-smoking groups including the American Cancer Society and the American Lung ...

  • Meet the Wisconsin teen behind todays Doodle 4 Google

    Google swapped out its traditional logo today for an emotional piece of art. The drawing, part of the company's annual Doodle 4 Google competition, shows a daughter racing into the arms of her soldier father. It's poignant, smart, and did not come from Google's team of professional artists. This one came from a ...

  • Wis. teen earns spot on Thursday Google page

    It's featured on the Google homepage Thursday. It shows a girl, in black and white, moving toward a soldier with an American flag in her hand. The last letter in the Google logo is a colorful image of the girl hugging the ...

  • New rent-to-own regulation Well have to see GOP leader says

    provision to lessen regulation of rent-to-own stores hangs uncertainly in the balance of negotiations taking place Thursday morning between Republican lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) acknowledged Thursday that the fate of the proposal by Gov. Scott Walker is unclear as the Legislature's budget committee prepares to take up the issue later in ...

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