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  • Owner of Menards being sued after allegations of sexual harassment

    MILWAUKEE - A billionaire from Wisconsin, and owner of Menards hardware, stores is being sued. The lawsuit claims John Menard, Jr. touched and demanded sexual activities multiple times from the wife of a former business partner in Indiana. She said that if she didn't comply, he threatened severe financial consequences. The documents show she refused Menard, who then made good on his ...

  • Marquette student hit by van Wednesday morning

    WISCONSIN - A student at Marquette University is in the hospital after she was hit by a van in Milwaukee early Wednesday morning. Police investigated what happened around 1:45 a.m Wednesday. Crews took the victim, a 23-year-old, to the hospital with serious injuries. Police took a 41-year-old man into ...

  • Wis. Sikhs plan 6K runwalk on one-year anniversary of tragedy

    OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Sikhs plan to memorialize last year's shooting tragedy with religious observances and a 6-kilometer fundraising run/walk. Temple member Pardeep Kaleka says the Aug. 5 anniversary will be preceded by a religious ceremony in which priests read the entire Sikh holy book aloud from cover to cover. Members of the temple in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek also ...

  • 2 bear attacks unusual in Wisconsin

    RHINELANDER, Wis. (AP) -- The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' carnivore specialist says attacks by black bear in Wisconsin are unusual, despite two such incidents so far this spring. David MacFarland, in Rhinelander, says black bear are not aggressive animals and usually don't attack, so the recent attacks in Wisconsin are rare incidents. In the most recent attack in ...

  • Assembly scheduled to pass budget

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The state Assembly is scheduled to vote on passing the state budget after debate barely got off the ground on Tuesday. The vote on passage is scheduled to happen at 5 p.m. Wednesday. The Assembly was scheduled to spend all day Tuesday on the plan, but discussions among Republicans on more than two dozen changes caused a delay. Lawmakers spent only 15 minutes debating the ...

Movie Review

Mighty Joe Young

If "Mighty Joe Young" isn't particularly good, it isn't particularly bad, either. A lightweight rampaging monster feature from Disney Pictures, it has an environmentally appreciative tone and a lot of touchy-feely moments between a 15-foot, 2,000-pound gorilla and Charlize Theron. The premise sounds much more interesting than it actually is. In fact, the movie is so pre-packaged and risk-free that ... ...

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  • Was TWA Flight 800 crash accidental

    Skeptics who have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces will get a fresh surge of energy when a new documentary attempts to disprove that the 1996 crash was ...

  • Man recovering from bear mauling outside Wisconsin cabin

    A man who was attacked by a black bear outside a cabin in northwestern Wisconsin is recovering at a hospital. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the man was attacked in his yard near Shell Lake on Monday night. DNR carnivore specialist David MacFarland says the man's dog apparently initiated contact with the bear. MacFarland says the man's brother came out of the ...

  • Artist paints a new lifes blueprint

    Robert Byrd was his mother's seventh child, born smack-dab in the middle of what would prove to be 13 children. He didn't know his dad. His mom, Pam, had a heart condition, and Byrd figures that's what killed her. He's not absolutely sure. She died in her early 40s, in the spring of 2003. Byrd was serving time at the House of Correction on a drug conviction. She had been ...

  • Little free libraries may turn up at last in Whitefish Bay

    It's not official yet, but Whitefish Bay plans to drop its objection to Little Free Libraries and join the rest of the world in allowing the casual exchange of books on people's front lawns. Carpenters, start your power tools. You may see these little wooden structures start popping up in the North Shore suburb later this summer after the Village Board signs the ordinance revision. ...

  • Suit claims Menard pressured money managers wife for sex

    Steve Hilbert and his wife Tomisue are photographed at Hamilton County, Ind., Superior Court in December 2006. Indiana-based insurance company Conseco Inc. took Hilbert, its former CEO, to court in a bid to recover lost ...

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