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  • Apples Cook faces Senate questions on taxes

    In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012 photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an introduction of the new iPhone 5 in San Francisco. Cook is scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill Tuesday May 21, 2013, to explain the company (TM)s tax strategy, which a Senate subcommittee says lets it avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, ...

  • Suspect in large Milwaukee bank heist expected to plead guilty

    One suspect in a Milwaukee bank heist that netted more than a quarter-million dollars is expected to plead guilty to his role in the crime next month. But at least two other people involved in the January robbery remain on the loose. Coleman Jones Ferrell, 26, of Oshkosh, is charged with armed robbery, party to a crime, in the Jan. 6 robbery of Community Financial Business, 6404 N. 76th St. ...

  • WISN to hold Tornado Relief donation drive

    WISN 12 and the American Red Cross will hold a donation drive Tuesday afternoon beginning at 4 p.m. The phone bank donation number will be published this afternoon, and operators will take your donations. Watch for live coverage of the donation drive this afternoon on WISN 12 News and on ...

  • Proposal to sell state properties up for vote

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A wide-reaching change that would allow the state to sell off properties ranging from prisons and power plants to University of Wisconsin dormitories and state highways is up for approval before the Legislature's budget committee. Gov. Scott Walker is proposing the provision as part of his state budget up for a vote Tuesday in the Legislature's Joint Finance ...

  • Okla. tornado death toll revised down to at least 24

    A massive, howling tornado pulverized a vast swath of the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, chewing up homes and businesses, and severely damaging a hospital and two elementary ...

Movie Review

Trouble in Paradise [DVD]

Trouble in Paradise [DVD]

Ernst Lubitsch was a German migr who began as a silent film actor and became one of the most celebrated and popular Hollywood directors of the 1930s and early 40s. The reason for his popularity and critical acclaim was the fabled Lubitsch Touch, which began as a publicity term but slowly grew in legend to describe the indescribablehow Lubitsch could take material that, in any other directors hand ... ...

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  • Watchdog group accused of showing Democratic bias with fundraiser

    its website , the Democracy Campaign describes itself as "a nonprofit, nonpartisan political watchdog group dedicated to clean government." But at noon Saturday, the Vilas County Democratic ...

  • Ex-Navy man denied UWM job welcomes ruling for other veterans

    A Waukesha man who lost out on a good job with the University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin after it decided he didn't qualify for the veteran's preference because he left the Navy for "bad conduct" says he's happy the Court of Appeals has ruled against the college. "I did what the VA told me and ended up in the middle of something I didn't expect," Mark ...

  • Rogers Behavioral Health forms new unit

    Rogers Behavioral Health System includes Rogers Memorial Hospital. Rogers Behavioral Health System said it has created a new corporation called Rogers InHealth that is dedicated to reducing the stigma facing people with mental-health maladies. Rogers InHealth will be an education and advocacy arm of Summit-based Rogers Behavioral Health System, which also includes Rogers Memorial Hospital, ...

  • Caterpillar Steelworkers union to resume talks in South Milwaukee

    Caterpillar and United Steelworkers Local 1343 will meet for the first time since May 8. Caterpillar Inc. and leaders of United Steelworkers Local 1343 will resume labor contract negotiations on Thursday, the company said in a statement Monday. The talks between the two sides stalled after a meeting May 8. That was the first meeting after 803 union workers at Caterpillars plant in South ...

  • Wis. panel to hear bill limiting local recalls

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- It would be harder to recall a local Wisconsin elected official from office under a proposal up for a hearing before a legislative committee. The Republican-sponsored bill is up for a hearing Tuesday before the Assembly's Committee on Campaigns and Elections. It would require anyone who petitions to recall a city, village, town, town sanitary district, or school ...

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