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  • WISN 12 News Update Legislative committee to look at double dipping

    WISN 12 News investigative reporter Colleen Henry first investigated the issue of double dipping, where public employees retire and start receiving their pension, but then get rehired in another public job and gets a paycheck. Gov. Scott Walker is proposing to more than double the length of time a public employee must be retired before being hired for another job. The Joint Finance Committee ...

  • Drive-by shooting damages Walgreens at Shops of Grand Avenue

    Police said a drive-by shooting in the early morning hours Sunday left a half-dozen bullet holes in the windows of that Walgreens at the Shops of Grand Avenue ...

  • Officials 6 killed in OKC tornado

    A powerful tornado blasted an area outside of city on Monday, ripping roofs off buildings, leveling homes and leaving a massive band of destruction in its wake. Survivors emerged from shelters to see an apocalyptic vision -- the remnants of cars twisted and piled on each other to make what had been a parking lot look like a junk yard. Bright orange flames roaring from a structure that was ...

  • Critics pounce on Scott Walkers three out-of-state trips this week

    Madison -- As Wisconsin lawmakers drill down on the state budget this week, Gov. Scott Walker is heading out of state for political events, spending three of four evenings in Connecticut, New York and Iowa. The fundraisers culminate in Thursday's appearance in Iowa, which will hold the first-in-the-nation caucuses for the 2016 presidential primary season. Walker is to give a keynote speech ...

  • Butterflies arrivals in Wisconsin are running very late

    Judith Huf has spent much of this spring watching birds when what she really wants to watch are butterflies. This spring butterflies have been late to the party in Wisconsin with few of the fluttering stained-glass window-paned creatures making an appearance yet. "It's been very discouraging," said Huf, who compiled the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center's butterfly checklist. ...

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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers [DVD]

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers [DVD]

The problem with Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers is that it's a bridge movie, linking Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), which jump-started the series back into existence after a long hiatus with the introduction of Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris), Michael's niece, and Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), which answers the mystery left at ... ...

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  • Two Milwaukee men charged in double drive-through bank robbery

    As if robbing a bank from the drive-through window weren't audacious enough, two Milwaukee men charged in such a heist apparently tried to double their take, and victims' confusion, by using two matching cars. Weirder yet, it almost worked. The thieves made off with about $6,000 before they were caught. According to a criminal complaint issued Monday: A drive-through teller at ...

  • Wausau Paper finalizes plan to sell two remaining Wisconsin mills

    Wausau Paper Corp., finalizing its withdrawal from making paper in Wisconsin after 114 years, signed a final agreement to sell its two remaining Wisconsin paper mills, it said Monday. Those two mills will merge with two other Wisconsin paper mills under new ownership, becoming the state's biggest papermaking company by employment. As of Monday, the new paper company also has a formal name: ...

  • Wisconsin Job training rule for food stamps would trim rolls by half report says

    MADISON, Wis. -- Requiring a job or basic training for one from able-bodied participants in the state's food stamp program would cause about half of them to drop out of the program -- a total of tens of thousands of people statewide and 14,500 in Milwaukee, according to a new report. The new projections come from the Legislature's nonpartisan budget office, which last week released ...

  • Milwaukee police search for suspected bank robber

    Police said Ricardo Perkins and Kevin Blackburn robbed the Educator's Credit Union branch near 70th Street and Appleton Avenue on May 7. According to tellers, the men approached the drive-through window twice in one day. They said both men sent notes through the tube feed, demanding money and saying they had a bomb. Not long after money was handed over, police spotted the vehicle and began ...

  • Hospital peer-to-peer networks provide donor breast milk

    Many health professionals cite breast milk as providing the best nutrition to newborns. But what happens when mothers cannot provide for their own ...

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