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  • Ordinary people extraordinary heroes remembered on Memorial Day

    Lena -- The grass has grown green around Nichole Frye's black granite grave marker. The soft music of wind chimes drifts through the tiny cemetery, next to a cornfield not yet plowed. On the cold February day she was buried in 2004, plywood was laid across the muddy, snowy ground for her family, friends and neighbors to stand on. They listened to taps sounded by two Lena High School ...

  • No injuries reported in fire near 22nd Pierce

    "The rear of the house was heavily-to-fully involved with the fire, on the exterior and all of the rear rooms," said Deputy Chief Aaron Lipski of the Milwaukee Fire ...

  • Authorities respond to crash in West Allis

    Years before two men allegedly hacked a British soldier to death on a London street, Kenyan authorities arrested one of the suspects on suspicion of terror ...

  • East Troy special ed director to do job remotely

    A special education director in southeastern Wisconsin has been allowed to telecommute to work from Washington, D.C. School officials call it an innovative way to save thousands of dollars while retaining a good employee. Critics say the superintendent's effort to accommodate a friend goes too far and may come at the expense of special education students and their parents. Tim Peerenboom, ...

  • Computer scientist ordered to decrypt suspected child porn files

    A federal magistrate in Milwaukee has ordered a West Allis man to take whatever actions are necessary to provide readable versions of encrypted hard drives agents seized from his apartment as part of a child porn investigation. U.S. Magistrate Judge William Callahan Jr.'s order marks an about-face ...

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Despite all its endeavors to be a shape-shifting glimpse into the collision between life and the afterlife, Marc Forsters Stay ultimately fails to reach the spiritual heights to which it attains because it is void of life itself. The c ... ...

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  • Greenfield girl lives on through organ donations after accident

    Mel Mickey had faced this once before. The words: "No hope." The sliver of time to make a decision. Nineteen years ago it was his daughter, Colleen Mickey, who died in a car accident. Age 19. This time, it was his granddaughter, Brittany Barnstable, hit by a car riding her bike. Age 15. No hope, the doctors said. He called his daughter, Michelle Barnstable, who was already racing ...

  • Wisconsin man convicted of ordering dog attack on teen

    FOND DU LAC, Wis.-A Campbellsport man has been convicted of tying a teenager upside-down and ordering his dog to attack because the man thought the teen was burglarizing his home. A Reporter of Fond du Lac report ...

  • Wisconsin defendants waiting longer for sentencing

    RACINE, Wis.-Wisconsin defendants waiting to be sentenced increasingly have to endure delays of several weeks before they learn their sentences. Corrections officials cite two reasons for the delays-too few probation agents to conduct pre-sentence investigation reports, and stricter requirements in the reports that take longer to complete. But defense attorneys say the delays can hurt defendants ...

  • Fourth Wisconsin Powerball ticket in two weeks hits jackpot

    MADISON, Wis.-For the fourth time in just over a week, a Powerball player in Wisconsin has hit a million-dollar jackpot. Lottery officials say the latest winning ticket was sold in Reedsburg, which is in Sauk County. The ticket matched five of the regular winning numbers in Saturday's drawing. The win comes about a week after three other tickets worth $1 million were sold in Antigo, Fremont ...

  • Wisconsin is third in the U.S. in alcohol-related boating deaths

    Wisconsin had the nation's third-highest number of alcohol-related boating deaths last year, the same year a legislative bill to stiffen penalties on drunken boaters went nowhere. Intoxicated boating killed eight people in the state last year, ranking Wisconsin behind only New York and Florida. In comparison Minnesota and Michigan, which also provide plenty of boating opportunities, ...

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