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9 still hospitalized after trains crash
Two passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour Friday evening in southwestern Connecticut, damaging both trains and leaving dozens injured, some of them critically, authorities ...
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Wisconsin bill would ban mandatory flu shots
Wisconsin employers, including hospitals and nursing homes, could no longer require workers to get flu shots under a bill pending in the Legislature. Republican Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, of Fond du Lac, says he began drafting the legislation after several hospital workers and health care contractors in his district complained they were fired after refusing to be vaccinated. The bill would ...
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Garage fire in Sussex
SUSSEX: A possible explosion and fire destroyed a garage connected to a home in Sussex early this morning. Neighbors described hearing what sounded like firecrackers for about fifteen minutes before seeing flames or smoke. The garage's roof along with two vehicles were destroyed in the fire. No one was hurt. There's no word yet on what caused the fire. The damage is estimated at ...
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Report N. Korea fires fourth missile
North Korea fired a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Sunday, according to South Korea's semiofficial news agency Yonhap, citing a South Korean military ...
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Another nice day today for Milwaukee before rain storms hit
Sunday will start with a bit of patchy morning fog before mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies take over for the majority of the day, according to WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) meteorologist Jesse Ritka. There is a very slim chance for a morning shower if storms in Iowa hold together, but that will be a quick chance and most of the Milwaukee area will stay dry. It will be warmer with a bit more humidity ...
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The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) [Blu-Ray]
Ever since its publication in 1959, many thought Gnter Grasss fantastical novel The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) was unfilmable. The story of a three-year-old boy who spites the idiocies of the world around him by refusing to grow up, making him into a sort of political Peter Pan ... ...
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Two $1 million Powerball tickets sold in Wisconsin
One of the million dollar tickets was sold at a Pick 'N Save store located at 1100 E. Garfield Avenue in Milwaukee. The other million dollar ticket was sold at Krist Food Mart, 104 Superior Street in ...
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Partial I-94 closure ends 7.5 hours earlier than scheduled
But around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, the Department of Transportation announced that work had ended more than seven hours early, so all lanes were ...
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PBA Summer Swing features testy clash of the keglers
One of the best rivalries in sports - maybe the best, if the measuring sticks are talent, head-to-head results, controversy and acrimony - happens to be in bowling. That's right. Kegling. Tenpins. Sean Rash and Jason Belmonte are two of the hottest professional bowlers on the planet. They are high-rev, power players in the primes of their career - Rash is 30 and Belmonte is 29 - and they ...
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Winning ticket for $590.5 million Powerball jackpot sold in Florida
(Reuters) - One winning ticket for a record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late on ...
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Cystic fibrosis drug helping Wisconsin brother sister
Charles Heup and his sister, Paula, review old family photos from when they were children. They are at Good Shepherd Evangelical Lutheran Church in Plymouth, where he is ...
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