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  • $600 million jackpot prompts rush on Powerball tickets

    Gary's Beer and Liquor in Oak Creek has been spitting out Powerball tickets for days. Store clerk Andrew Deptula said the store has a history of producing ...

  • Big buzz over Powerball jackpot

    The chances of winning are low -- 1 in 175 million. But should you strike it big with the Powerball drawing, financial advisor and CPA Mike Arnow says there's three things you should ...

  • Winning numbers for largest Powerball jackpot are ...

    CNN - The winning numbers for the largest multistate Powerball jackpot are: 22, 10,13,14, 52 and the Powerball number is 11. Saturday's jackpot is a record $600 million. It marks the largest in Powerball history, surpassing a $587.6 million jackpot split by winners in Arizona and Missouri in November. The jackpot has a cash value of $376.9 million. The largest lottery jackpot in U.S. ...

  • Milwaukee police investigate 2 northwest side shootings

    Milwaukee police were investigating two shootings that happened about two miles apart on the city's northwest side Saturday morning. In the first, a 47-year-old man was shot while sitting with a friend in the 4700 block of N. 76th Street. Police said a black SUV pulled in front of the pair and a suspect shot the victim once before exiting the vehicle to demand the victim's cellphone. ...

  • Charitys investment a prescription for profits for drug maker

    What happens when a disease-fighting charity dives into venture capitalism? In the first case of its kind, the results include one of the planet's most expensive pills, huge sales projections for a drug company and windfalls for executives who sold stock in the glow of enthusiastic news releases about the drug. Kalydeco is a breakthrough drug designed from knowledge of the genetic roots ...

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Sunshine

Sunshine

The title of Sunshine, a sci-fi thriller that marks the third collaboration of director Danny Boyle, writer Alex Garland, and producer Andrew Macdonald, is wonderfully misleading. The word sunshine suggests warmth, happiness, and comfort, but throughout the film it is intense, all-consu ... ...

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  • Jeff Bianchi bullpen get job done in Brewers victory

    MLB: Power rankings St. Louis – Jeff Bianchi made the most of a rare opportunity on Saturday night. Starting at second base in place of the slumping Rickie Weeks, Bianchi delivered a clutch two-out, two-run single to center in the top of the 10th inning to spark a 6-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium. It was just the second start of the season for the ...

  • Campaign aims to improve perceptions about public housing

    A new national campaign aimed at improving the perceptions about public housing has been launched and features a Milwaukee resident as an example of someone who is succeeding. ...

  • ABB increasing Wisconsin presence with Innovation Campus headquarters

    For a company that operates in more than 100 countries, ABB Inc. keeps a low profile in Wisconsin. That may have ended in January, when ABB announced plans to develop a new regional headquarters at Innovation Campus, the new technology park being developed by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. ABB employs over 29,000 people in Canada, Mexico and the United States and over 145,000 people ...

  • City axes bra ban at historic Milwaukee bar

    (Fotolia) The owner of a Milwaukee bowling alley and bar who was recently told to remove hundreds of bras hanging from the ceiling due to it being a fire hazard has been allowed to put them back ...

  • Powerball mania Jackpot hits $600 million

    That's all it took for Mammie Hicks to plunk down money at a Riverside, Mo., convenience store for a chance at Saturday's record $600 million multistate Powerball ...

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