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  • Winston Van Horne guided UWM department of Africology

    Winston Van Horne liked to say that Africology was both the newest idea, and the oldest. It was as old as Africa itself, but the notion of having a department of Africology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee took some time. "He birthed a discipline, at once father and mother," UWM Provost Johannes Britz said, quoting one of his colleagues, in announcing the death last month of ...

  • Weeks Ramirez homer late to push Brewers past Astros

    The Brewers shook off a nine-run loss the previous evening by beating the Houston Astros, 3-1, Wednesday night. The Brewers took a 2-1 lead in the eighth when Rickie Weeks, batting leadoff for the first time in more than a year in the absence of Norichika Aoki, collected the first extra-base hit of the game. And it was a big one, a two-run homer off reliever Hector Ambriz. Aramis Ramirez ...

  • Thousands lose power in Milwaukee outage

    A We Energies spokesperson says the outage started at 7:19 p.m. when there was a problem with a cable at the company's 28th Street substation. While they said power should be restored around 9 p.m., according to We Energies' outage map, nearly 4,000 customers remained without power at that ...

  • Menomonee Falls man unconscious after bike crash

    VILLAGE OF LANNON - The Waukesha County Sheriff's Office says that a man who was found unconscious after a bike crash has been taken to Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa. There was no initially confirmed report on his condition. The crash happened just before 7:00 p.m. Wednesday night in Menomonee County Park in the Village of Lannon. According to the Sheriff's Office, no cars were ...

  • Thousands without power in Milwaukee area

    MILWAUKEE - According to We Energies, about 5,700 customers lost power Wednesday after an equipment failure. Spokesman Barry McNulty told 620WTMJ's Jay Sorgi that as of about 9:15 p.m., 3,800 customers remained without power. Milwaukee Police tell TODAY'S TMJ4 that a transformer blew near the corner of North 32nd and West Wells Streets. We Energies did not confirm the blown ...

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Flags of Our Fathers

Flags of Our Fathers

In Flags of Our Fathers, producer/director Clint Eastwood resurrects the specter of World War II, not for a simplistic celebration of the momentous sacrifices of the Greatest Generation, but rather to question the nature of heroism. Like any symbol, heroes are socia ... ...

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  • Steelworkers members question vote to ratify Caterpillar contract

    Angry that leaders of Steelworkers Local 1343 are refusing to release exact results of the vote ratifying a contentious labor contract at Caterpillar Inc., some union members at the South Milwaukee plant are pressing hard to get the the numbers. The union, however, isn't blinking. It says the precise vote total will remain secret for strategic reasons involving future negotiations. ...

  • Wis. Innocence Project helps homicide inmate go free

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Milwaukee man who won a new trial after being convicted of homicide and sentenced to a life term has instead reached a plea deal that made him a free man this week. Twenty-seven-year-old Seneca Malone could have tried to clear his name by contesting a renewed homicide charge. Instead he pleaded no contest to a lesser charge of negligent homicide. Defense attorney Jerome ...

  • Mother speaks about MPD officer shooting her son

    Police: Suspect accidentally shot near Milwaukee day care center MILWAUKEE - The mother of the robbery suspect Milwaukee Police said was accidentally shot by an officer wants the department to explain exactly how the cop’s gun fired after her son surrendered. Sheldon Gainer is awaiting charges, and is still recovering from a gunshot to his thigh. It’s an injury Milwaukee ...

  • How safe are Air National Guard KC-135s

    National Guard plane makes emergency landing Friday MILWAUKEE - Are the lives of our service men and women in danger? It’s a question you’ve raised after the fourth emergency landing for the 128th Air Refueling Wing this year. A KC-135 jet engine was forced to land outside of Indianapolis at Grissom Air Reserve Base Tuesday, after one of its hydraulic systems failed. Col. ...

  • Sopranos actor dead at 51

    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- James Gandolfini, whose portrayal of a brutal, emotionally delicate mob boss in HBO's "The Sopranos" helped create one of TV's greatest drama series and turned the mobster stereotype on its head, died Wednesday in Italy. He was 51. In a statement, the cable channel, and Gandolfini's managers Mark Armstrong and Nancy Sanders, said he died Wednesday ...

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