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  • Vigil for missing woman planned for tonight

    Now, more than week since they've seen her, friends and family will gather to pray for Jessica Benson. The vigil will be at 6 p.m. at the Educators Credit Union near 70th Street and Appleton ...

  • Stories of hope after Oklahoma tornado

    How you can help tornado victims MOORE, Okla. - In the midst of the tragedy caused by one of the most destructive tornadoes in recorded history, the people of Moore, Oklahoma are revealing hope and resiliency. "We're going to be OK," said a woman with confidence and strength in her voice to TODAY'S TMJ4's Brian Gotter, who returned to his once-home state to show ...

  • Search for survivors winds down in Oklahoma

    No survivors or bodies have been found in Moore since Monday, the day a mammoth tornado ripped through 17 miles of central Oklahoma and pummeled 2,400 ...

  • Wisconsin Realtors Association Wisconsin home sales and prices continue …

    Wisconsin Realtors Association: Wisconsin home sales and prices continue healthy growth in April 5/21/2013 For More Information Contact: Michael Theo, WRA President CEO, 608-241-2047, mtheo@wra.org or David Clark, Economist, C3 Statistical Solutions and Professor of Economics, Marquette University, 414-803-6537, dclark@c3stats.com MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin existing home sales ...

  • Budget panel makes changes for public retirees to stop double-dipping

    Madison - Public workers would have to wait longer after retirement before they could return to the government workforce and in some cases would be barred from receiving retirement benefits while working the new job, under a provision Republicans on the Legislature's budget committee adopted Tuesday. Other changes by the Joint Finance Committee would affect many public workers, including ...

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Fists in the Pocket (I Pugni in tasca) [DVD]

Fists in the Pocket (I Pugni in tasca) [DVD]

The provincial family at the center of Mario Bellochios morbidly comic feature debut Fists in the Pocket (I Pugni in tasca) is sick--literally sick. The various ailments the family members bear--the mother is blind, both sons have epilepsy, the youngest son is ... ...

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  • Packers o-linemen shift into new positions

    Green Bay - A month ago the news was big but the timing was right. The Green Bay Packers staff told the offensive line that everyone except center Evan Dietrich-Smith would begin the offseason playing a new position. After four weeks of work behind the scenes, that change was unveiled to the media and fans Tuesday during organized team activities. "Yeah it's going to be tough," ...

  • Sheboygan priest wants to encourage more transparency in child sex abuse cases

    The Rev. Jim Connell of St. Clement's Church in Sheboygan is prepared to become an outspoken advocate for victims of sex abuse within the Catholic ...

  • Neighbors complain about Echo Lake Foods noise

    Concrete and rebar are being ground up and recycled at the old Echo Lake Foods plant in Burlington. It's the final step in bringing the building down after fire destroyed it in January and 300 people lost their ...

  • Heavy Urban Rescue Team trains for disasters

    MILWAUKEE - Firefighters and other first responders are still digging through tons of rubble. It's an exhausting and dangerous job. Timing is everything for the Heavy Urban Rescue Team. Captain Troy Klemstein knows exactly what the search and rescue teams are up against in Moore, Oklahoma. He shows the extremely sensitive listening devices teams are using to hear people buried in rubble . ...

  • Parking police seek automated system to write tickets

    MILWAUKEE - Parking checkers made the city of Milwaukee $22.1 million last year from parking tickets, though the city agency in charge of parking enforcement thinks it can do better. Public documents obtained by the I-TEAM show the city lamenting over declining revenue from parking tickets. One document reads, "...since 2010, overall on-street parking revenues have fallen." But the ...

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