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  • Elmbrook crews bring food prayer to Oklahoma tornado victims

    Moore, Okla. - Jeff Akin walks through this suburban neighborhood of twisted and flattened homes, handing out sandwiches and water from a Styrofoam cooler. He invites those he meets down to a nearby church where they can find meals and clothes and tetanus shots, and he offers his prayers. "God bless you people," he calls out to the families and workers clearing debris left by the ...

  • DNR revises protected species list

    A small snake that's thwarted construction projects in southeastern Wisconsin has been removed from a list of protected species by the Department of Natural Resources. The Butler's garter snake, a cousin of the common garter snake, was one of seven animal species that lost its protected status when the Natural Resources Board voted, 7-0, on Wednesday to approve a revision of the ...

  • Boom first sign of problem on I-5 bridge

    The first sign for a truck driver that something was wrong on a bridge on Interstate 5 that collapsed into Washington's Skagit River was the sound of a "boom," a federal investigator said ...

  • Kohls hopes Starbucks marketing whiz can spice up brand

    From caramel Frappuccinos to Croft & Barrow solid pique polos: Kohl's Corp.'s hiring of high-flying Starbucks executive Michelle Gass to fill a newly created, top-level post is, by itself, a big move for the Menomonee Falls-based retailer. Gass -- her name rhymes with "sauce" -- didn't just figure prominently in taking the Frappuccino from a new iced-coffee ...

  • Brewers Lose Game Two To Pirates

    The Pirates lefthander didn't give up a run for the second straight game to help lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers ...

Movie Review

Shooter

Shooter

With Shooter, Antoine Fuqua has officially become the master of politically confused action movies. You got a sense of it in one of his better films, Training Day (2001), which started out as a taut depiction of police corruption, but devolved by the end into an overwrought horrors ... ...

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  • Police officer killed in accident after his shift

    A Twin Lakes police officer was heading home from work when a truck going the opposite direction crossed the center line and crashed head on into him. The officer, 36 year old Jeffery Kreft, died from his ...

  • Vacation rentals could put homeowners on the wrong side of the law

    Airbnb.com and similar websites to rent rooms to travelers could be operating unlicensed inns, according to the trade group for Wisconsin's bed and breakfast operators. As a result, those homeowners are avoiding health inspections, license fees and room taxes. "Sometimes it's not a fair playing field," said Liz Brown, co-owner of the Stagecoach Inn, a licensed 12-room bed ...

  • Harley riders take the scenic route to benefit COPS

    MILWAUKEE - House of Harley-Davidson hosted the second annual Law Enforcement Ride, benefitting the COPS organization, that's the Concerns of Police Survivors. Officers led the ride Saturday which began in Milwaukee and took a scenic route to the COPS Kids Camp in East Troy, Wisconsin. Today's TMJ4's Todd Hicks spoke with a woman, still healing after her loved one was hit by a ...

  • Special Education teacher charged with exposing himself to students

    Milwaukee--An MPS teacher has been accused of exposing himself to his students. Kevin France, 37, worked at Mary McLeod Bethune Academy on N. 35th st. According to the criminal complaint, the allegations go as far back as December 21 when four female students from his class reported the incidents to Principal Carol McKay. McKay told police that she separated the students and had them each ...

  • Volunteers from Brookfield are headed to Moore Oklahoma

    BROOKFIELD, Wis. - Elmbrook Church has a regular disaster response team, that according to its website, is ready to mobilize within 48 hours. This weekend instead of going to a party, a picnic or a parade, members of this non-denominational church are heading to Moore, Oklahoma, to help those devastated by a tornado that killed 24 people. The team had planned to go to Texas last week after ...

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