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  • Wisconsins summer heat begins today

    Hot and humid air poised just to our west invades over the next 24 hours. We'll stay sunny today on light southeast winds. Temperatures will climb to 77 along the lake and reach the low to mid 80s for Waukesha. Lows tonight hold in the low 60s on light south ...

  • Green Bay buys strip club to tear it down

    GREEN BAY - The City of Green Bay has plans to buy "The Body Shop," a strip club on the corner of Monroe and Main Street. Mayor Jim Schmitt says the owner of the club was looking to sell, and the city took the opportunity to buy it with the intention to tear it down. The common council approved the purchase at Tuesday's meeting. The move is part of the city's plan to ...

  • Union members questioning numbers in vote to ratify new Caterpillar contract

    Steelworkers members question vote to ratify Caterpillar contract MILWAUKEE - Union workers at a Caterpillar plant in Milwaukee are questioning the vote to ratify a new ...

  • Official Gandolfini likely had heart attack

    The body of the actor was transferred to the morgue at the Policlinico Umberto I hospital in Rome early Thursday, where it awaited an autopsy. By law, medical examiners in Italy are required to carry out the postmortem 24 hours after the body's arrival in the morgue, a hospital spokesman said. Professor Claudio Modini, head of the emergency department where the actor was taken, said he ...

  • Potawatomi shooting suspect still in jail but no charges yet

    weekend shooting at Potawatomi Bingo Casino has yet to be charged in that case but remained in jail early Thursday on $500 bond. Jail records indicate he's being held on an unrelated felony theft charge -- accused of borrowing a girlfriend's car with her permission, but not returning it when she asked for it back -- and will be in court in a week for a preliminary hearing in that ...

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Elizabethtown

Elizabethtown

Despite all his best intentions and last-minute editing, Cameron Crowes free-flow romanticism may have finally gotten the better of him in Elizabethtown. A semi-autobiographical story about a young man returning to a family he doesnt know, it is sweet an ... ...

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  • Summer Heat Begins Today

    Hot and humid air poised just to our west invades over the next 24 hours. We'll stay sunny today on light southeast winds. Temperatures will climb to 77 along the lake and reach the low to mid 80s for Waukesha. Lows tonight hold in the low 60s on light south ...

  • Milwaukee police investigating officer-involved shooting

    Police said the officers investigated and found a man with a gun. He refused to drop his weapon, according to police. That's when the officers shot ...

  • Closing arguments set in teens homicide trial

    Closing arguments are expected in Sheboygan County Circuit Court where a 14-year-old boy is on trial in the bludgeoning death of an elderly ...

  • Senate to take up state budget today

    , the Senate will take up the spending plan. Chris Larsen, the Democratic leader in the Senate, says there will be more opposition when the budget debate starts there. "The margins are a little bit different in the Assembly where they figured it would be just as much as talking to a brick wall. In the Senate, there are a few more folks who are reasonable on the Republican side," ...

  • 60 Kohls employees let go by the company

    MILWAUKEE - Kohl's has announced they will be letting go 60 of their employees at the corporate office. According to Jen Johnson with the company, the employees are based in accounts payable and sales auditing, which will be transitioned to a third party vendor. "We appreciate the numerous years of service of our affected associates and are providing separation severance packages and ...

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