Provides the latest RSS feeds for Wisconsin News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Milwaukee Sun.com http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/cat/d2a460830d69bfa0/ en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 16:05:12 -0400 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:05:12 -0400 30 MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) -- Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has declared a state of emergency in three counties around a collapsed Interstate 5 bridge. Inslee said in his proclamation Friday that the bridge collapse has caused extensive disruption, impacting the citizens and economy in Skagit, Snohomish and Whatcom Counties. The governor is instructing the emergency management division of the ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214744541/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:24:18 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214744541/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 GREEN BAY - Pro wrestling, what is that sport really like? You have the good guys, you have the villains, but what about outside the ring? Well you might be suprised to find out they're actually pretty normal guys, like one former local resident, who made it pretty big in the world of wrestling. During his days at Two Rivers Washington High School, Ken Anderson found a way to make his ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214744542/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:24:17 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214744542/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 , 1,157 of the 14,057 bridges in Wisconsin are considered structurally deficient. That is 8.2 percent. Out of those 14,057 bridges, 779 (or 5.5 percent) are considered functionally obsolete. ASCE also reports that Wisconsin received $18.3 million from the Federal Highway Bridge Fund in ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214744543/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:24:15 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214744543/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 A Walworth County jury has convicted a former Sawyer County woman of receiving money her friend embezzled by writing checks forged from a Fontana business for more than a ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214744755/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:16:01 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214744755/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 the State Journal reports . Eliza Kulp, 19, of Blue River, was charged with battery to an officer, disorderly conduct, criminal damage to property, underage drinking and a probation violation, according to a news release from the Grant County Sheriff's Department. Authorities responded to a home in Boscobel after getting a call about a woman out of control. "She had become ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214744756/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:16:00 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214744756/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn says the legislature is hurting the city and ultimatelys the state with proposed bills about residency and funding for public safety ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214744544/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:15:57 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214744544/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders , a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of members and ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214743109/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:02:38 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214743109/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 A 14-year-old Milwaukee boy was sexually assaulted Thursday by a 28-year-old woman who teaches at his school, Milwaukee police said Friday. The assault reportedly took place about 6:30 p.m. Thursday inside a car parked at Destiny High School, 7210 N. 76th St. The two are not associated with Destiny High School and were there for a special event, said Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer, police spokesman. The ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214743110/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:02:37 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214743110/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Pabst Blue Ribbon was the first foreign beer brewed in China. Lakefront Brewery Inc. is making its first foray into the Chinese market, but Chinas 1.3 billion residents certainly arent strangers to beer with Wisconsin roots. As I report in todays print edition of The Business Journal, Lakefront Brewery made its first shipment to China this month through a potential new business partner, Shanghai ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214744545/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:59:41 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214744545/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee Police are investigating a sexual assault of a 14-year-old Messmer High School student by a Messmer teacher. According to Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer with Milwaukee Police, the alleged sexual assault of the boy that happened around 6:30 p.m. on May 23 in a car parked in the parking lot of Destiny High School located at 7210 N. 76th Street. The suspect, a 28-year-old woman, and the ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741239/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:57:03 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741239/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Twenty-five four-legged companions left homeless by the devastating tornado in Moore, Okla., have arrived at a Green Bay animal shelter and are ready for adoption. It was a 16-hour trip for the dogs, mostly puppies, from the Central Oklahoma Humane Society to the Bay Area Humane Society. Dozens of displaced animals poured into the Oklahoma shelter after the tornado. Other ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741240/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:57:02 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741240/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 FILE - In this May 28, 2010 file photo, the rush hour commute starts in early afternoon and with greater intensity as traffic is jammed in both directions on Interstate 405 on the Westside of Los Angeles as commuters and Memorial Day vacationers hit the road. It (TM)s going to be another busy Memorial Day weekend on the nation (TM)s highways. During Thursday, May 23, 2013 and Monday, May 27, ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741241/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:57:01 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741241/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Fort McCoy's campground's summer hours will take effect this weekend. Pine View Campground's summer season will start Friday and run through the Labor Day weekend, ending on Sept. 2. The camp office will be open from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays and from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. The campground's swimming beach will ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741242/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:56:59 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741242/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MILWAUKEE - The Brewers will pause tonight to honor a police officer from our area who was killed in the line of duty on Christmas Eve. Wauwatosa Police Officer Jennifer Sebena's friend, Wauwatosa Police Officer Katie Gierach, will throw out the first pitch. Sebena's family will be at the game as the Brewers' honor law enforcement. Members of the law enforcement community can ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741243/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:56:58 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741243/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 FRIENDSHIP, Wis. (AP) -- A man convicted of killing his mother in 2010, hiding her body and using her checks and credit cards is due for sentencing in Adams County. Larry Clark is scheduled in circuit court Friday afternoon for a sentencing hearing. The 61-year-old Clark shot his mother, Marcella Clark, is the back in July 2010 and then took her body to some woods near their house in Big Flats. ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741244/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:56:55 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741244/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MILWAUKEE - Joe Dean is stepping back at the Stars and Stripes Honor Flight. Joe has been the driving force behind the organization that has flown numerous planes full of World War II veterans to see the World War II Memorial in Washington DC. But the Honor Flight has done so much more than just that for our community. It only seems right to pause and thank Joe. "Every time I see that ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741245/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:56:54 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741245/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Milwaukee has one of its biggest conventions in town this week. Nearly 8,000 people are attending to 125th Annual Moose International Convention through Wednesday. VISIT Milwaukee estimates the economic impact to the city to be $11.3 million. Moose International is a fraternal and service organization founded in 1888 with nearly 1.1 million men and women throughout North ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741246/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:56:52 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741246/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 GLENDALE - There are three restaurant's around Wisconsin that bear the name of the Sprecher Brewery. Oddly, there wasn't one near the Sprecher Brewery in Glendale. Now there will be. The Sprecher Restaurant and Pub will open at the Bayshore Town Center in the fall of 2013. The restaurant will be located just miles from the Sprecher Brewery in Glendale. "We are very excited to ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741247/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:56:50 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741247/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MILWAUKEE - The upcoming long Memorial Day weekend means a Monday off for most people, but some government workers are getting an unpaid holiday on Friday because of forced furlough days. If you're waiting for a tax return, you'll have to wait a little longer due to the IRS furlough closing up its Milwaukee office on Friday. The IRS made the move due to the federal budget ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741248/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:56:49 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741248/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MILWAUKEE - A unique outdoor market is coming to Milwaukee in June. It's called Milwaukee Up Market. It's a place to buy, sell, socialize and explore. Several vendors will be set up at Milwaukee's Up Market, offering true antiques and deals that will attract an early morning crowd as well as affordable art, fashion finds, rummage items, fresh flowers, farmers, knife sharpening ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741249/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:56:47 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741249/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MILWAUKEE - The Memorial Day holiday brings many parades and other civic events to our area. It includes many important gatherings to remember those who gave their lives for our ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741250/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:56:46 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741250/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 GREEN BAY - A lucky couple is going home in Aaron Rodgers' Ford truck! Thursday, Karen and Fred Gaskamp were announced as the winners of the "My Ford Could Be Yours" contest. That means they now own Rodgers' Ford F-150 that once belonged to the Packers quarterback. The couple was chosen from nearly 13,000 ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741251/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:56:45 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741251/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 One is a beer lover's dream. The other a hidden gem in a local community. Both of their kitchens are spotless. We are handing out Blue Ribbon Awards this ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741252/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:56:44 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741252/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 ALLOUEZ, Wis. -- A small basement fire turned into a devastating scene in the Village of Allouez, Thursday. At least 21 departments responded to a fire at Hilltop Place ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741253/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:56:30 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741253/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Help honor our Wisconsin heroes this Memorial Day weekend by sharing a photo of loved ones who served in the military. Use the caption field to tell us a little about your ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741687/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:47:09 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741687/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 A defense attorney is raising mental competency issues for the Sturtevant man accused of attacking a fellow restaurant cook with a knife, the Racine Journal Times reports. Simon Cabrea Barrueta, 45, was wheeled into the courtroom Thursday seated in a wheelchair, his left arm in a sling from the May 11 altercation with another cook, which reportedly began in the kitchen. Court Commissioner Alice ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741688/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:47:07 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741688/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Attorneys for a man accused of killing a La Crosse photo store owner and his son want charges dismissed, saying police mishandled evidence, according to ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741689/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:47:06 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741689/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Two channels may be dropped from Fox Valley cable packages because of a dispute between Time Warner Cable and the parent company of the two local stations, the Post Crescent reports. LIN Media says WLUK (Channel 11) and WCWF (Channel 14) may be blocked from cable packages. "Time Warner has yet to recognize the fair value of our programming," LIN says in a statement. "Our stations ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741691/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:47:05 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741691/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 the Duluth News Tribune reports . The animal ripped open the man's arm and left the woman with a broken thumb, lacerated fingers and puncture wounds on her thigh, according to a Douglas County Sheriff's Office report. The couple was walking their puppy about 300 yards east of Wuori Road when they saw a dog on the trail in front of them. The animal went into the woods, then charged out ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741690/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:47:04 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741690/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 A hiker in the Hixon Forest found some equipment stolen in December from a La Crosse County Sheriff's deputy's house, but two guns are still missing, according to ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741692/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:47:02 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741692/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Wisconsin State Journal reports. The 35-year-old Chicago man was arrested by Milton police Thursday on a tentative charge of abuse of an individual at risk and one of the allegations is that he left the elderly man in a soiled diaper for more than one day. Module type name is JSO Mod-Script ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214740972/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:47:02 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214740972/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Waukegan, Ill. -- A Benedictine monk from Wisconsin who faces charges he tried to abduct four Illinois girls has been released on bond. A Lake County judge lowered 57-year-old Thomas Chmura's bail from $150,000 to $50,000. Chmura previously was held in the Lake County jail since May 2. Chmura has pleaded not guilty. He lived at St. Benedict's Abbey in Benet Lake, ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741693/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:46:58 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741693/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Green Bay Press-Gazette . The Central Oklahoma Humane Society made the transfer so there would be room for animals left homeless by severe storms and a tornado that struck the Oklahoma City area. Module type name is JSO Mod-Script ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741301/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:46:58 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741301/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) -- The Manitowoc County supervisors say they are opposed to Republican-backed legislation that would reduce the power of the Milwaukee County ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741696/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:31:33 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214741696/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The University of Wisconsin-Madison wants an exemption from the state's open-records law that would allow it to keep research information private until it's published or ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214739755/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:38:10 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214739755/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Crystal Finishing Systems has purchased a shuttered manufacturing plant in Mosinee for an undisclosed price. Crystal Finishing President Mark Matthiae (MATH'-ee) says his company will add about 250 to 350 jobs in the next three years. Jobs will range in pay from $10.50 to $25 an hour. Matthiae says the average annual wage for his employees is ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214739754/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:38:09 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214739754/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Caterpillar and union officials met for several hours on Thursday and will meet again next week. United Steelworkers Local 1343 presented Caterpillar Inc. with a new labor contract proposal in a meeting Thursday, and the two sides will meet again May 30 to continue negotiations, a local union official said. Thursdays meeting was the first since May 8. That meeting was the first after 803 union ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214739090/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:15:47 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214739090/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Duluth officers swarmed the Allyndale Motel Thursday night and made the arrest. The shooting victim was found earlier Thursday in the parking lot of Genesis Attachments. The Duluth News Tribune ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214738012/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:48:42 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214738012/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Zoom In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, rescue workers form a human chain as they begin to remove a woman who reaches out from a smashed pickup truck that fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridgeThursday, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (AP Photo/Francisco ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214737129/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:05:01 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214737129/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MILWAUKEE - Management at the venue 618 Live on Water confirmed late Thursday that controversial rapper Keith "Chief Keef" Cozart would not be performing as part of a concert scheduled to take place Saturday night. Nick Murado said discussions about canceling Cozart's performance began earlier this week. By Tuesday, Murado said, a decision was made that "Chief Keef" ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734312/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:18:10 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734312/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 KENOSHA - A couple from Pleasant Prairie accused of animal cruelty and neglect will wait three more weeks before the start of their preliminary hearing. Paula and David White still have not secured a lawyer. The last veterinarian that last saw the horses back in 2009 said the condition the horses were found in last month were not the way he last saw them. He believes this is a case of animal ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734313/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:18:10 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734313/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Wisconsin's Republican governor, Scott Walker, is introducing himself to Iowa Republicans as would-be presidential candidates often do -- as one of their ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734314/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:18:07 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734314/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 It was shortly after 7 p.m. when Dan Sligh and his wife Sally were near the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River. The semi-truck ahead on the far right seemed too wide for the bridge span, and Sligh told his wife so."We started slowing down, and about that same time another semi-truck came up on the left side," he told KIRO 7. "It almost looked like he pinned that truck over ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734292/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:12:33 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734292/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Madison - The Legislature's budget committee in a bipartisan vote Thursday froze tuition and tax dollars for the University of Wisconsin System over the next two years and delayed new flexibilities promised in the last state budget, leaving public universities to fund several new initiatives from recently discovered cash reserves that triggered a firestorm at the Capitol. The tuition freeze ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734318/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:25 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734318/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 A woman killed in a two-vehicle crash in Dane County was identified by the medical examiner's office Thursday as Hannah Marie LeBlanc, 29, of Severna Park, Md. LeBlanc was a passenger in a Toyota Prius that collided with a Ford Ranger shortly before 5 p.m., Sunday at County Highway BB and State Highway 73, in the Town of Deerfield, according to the Dane County Sheriff's Office. The ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734835/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:25 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734835/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 A state appeals court has decided that a man who killed three people at an Onalaska church almost three decades ago should remain at a mental health facility, the La Crosse Tribune reports. To read more, ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734836/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:23 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734836/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Madison -- Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to lessen regulation of rent-to-own stores was yanked from his budget bill Thursday in a bipartisan vote by the Legislature's budget committee. After an exhausting day stretching from the morning into the night, the Joint Finance Committee voted 10-6 to remove the provision from the 2013-'15 budget bill, with all of the panel's six GOP ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734319/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:23 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734319/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 West Des Moines, Iowa -- Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday took his stump speech to the state that will kick off the 2016 presidential nominating season, telling Iowa conservatives that Republicans need to be more optimistic, relevant and courageous. He mixed some of his state budget agenda with national themes in his 40-minute speech and reminded the attendees of the $75-per-person GOP fundraiser ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734320/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:22 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734320/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 The critical barometer of local ratings success is the 10 p.m. newscast, which WISN won handily with an 8.9 rating, ahead of second-place WTMJ-TV (Channel 4), which had a 6 rating. It is the second consecutive sweeps win in the time period by WISN. "This is the station's widest lead" at 10 p.m. in "Milwaukee ratings history," WISN trumpeted in a press release. It ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734321/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:07:49 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214734321/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 An elementary school principal has inspired the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create a new wheelchair lift that could help make more places wheelchair accessible. The invention process began three years ago when the principal at Emerson Elementary School in Madison, Karen Kepler, told a school donor her biggest wish was for her building to become accessible to everyone. All four entrances ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214732768/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 03:53:15 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214732768/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 a plethora of anti-abortion bills aimed at regulating abortion clinics, restricting insurance from paying for abortions and even birth control, and creating bills exempting faith-based employers from providing contraceptive coverage (something that’s already been handled at the federal level). One measure would also outright ban the coverage of abortions for public employees who have health ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214731937/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 02:27:17 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214731937/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Legislature's finance committee Thursday approved a plan in Republican Gov. Scott Walker's executive budget that would dramatically expand the state's powers to seize DNA from crime ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214731028/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:34:59 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214731028/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- Scott Walker tried to introduce himself to Iowa Republicans Thursday as so many would-be presidential candidates often do -- one of their own. After all, the Wisconsin governor weighing a 2016 bid for president spent seven years as a young child living in Plainfield, a tiny town in northeast Iowa Walker referred to a half-dozen times during a 40 minute speech at a ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214730948/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:22:21 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214730948/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 OSHKOSH, Wis. -- A Wisconsin man who spent two decades in prison for rape has had his conviction overturned. Joseph Frey, 53, received a 102-year sentence in 1994 for an attack three years prior on a University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh student. The woman was sexually assaulted at knifepoint after her apartment was broken into. On Wednesday, Winnebago County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Bissett ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214730161/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 23:28:23 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214730161/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MADISON, Wis. -- A legislative committee has voted to slash the University of Wisconsin System budget, venting its anger after learning the system raised tuition for six straight years even though it's currently sitting on a surplus of $650 million. The Joint Finance Committee approved the UW budget bill Thursday evening. The bill eliminates a proposed spending increase of $181 million for ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214730467/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 23:28:23 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214730467/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MADISON, Wis. -- Wildlife officials increased daily walleye bag limits for anglers on Thursday as Wisconsin Chippewa spearfishing winds down. The state Department of Natural Resources raised limits on 442 lakes in the ceded territory, a swath of northern Wisconsin the tribes gave to the government more than a century ago. The rules include a five-walleye limit on 289 lakes, a four-walleye limit ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214728673/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:38:24 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214728673/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MADISON, Wis. -- The Legislature's budget-writing committee voted unanimously Thursday to delay some freeway projects and cut funding for others, as part of an effort to close a $54 million deficit in Wisconsin's roads fund that was prompted by a drop in gas-tax revenue. The Joint Finance Committee voted to postpone freeway work in the Milwaukee area and scale back road aid to local ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214728674/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:38:20 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214728674/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 WEST BEND – A seventh grader received a major surprise when her Marine father returned home. Major Greg Butcher just spent seven months in Afghanistan. Butcher, along with teachers at Badger Middle School, staged an elaborate plot to surprise his daughter, ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214727691/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:03:24 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214727691/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 A Milwaukee County employee says she was sexually assaulted twice by her male supervisor while at work at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex, according to a complaint filed with the state. The employee says she was harassed by her boss over a seven-year period, which included phone calls during and after work. The woman was forced to engage in sex acts with the supervisor once in the ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214727692/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:55:44 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214727692/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Madison -- To close a shortfall in the state's roads fund, the Legislature's budget committee Thursday cut funding for highways and other projects by $59.5 million, which would delay work on the massive I-94 North-South and Zoo Interchange projects in the Milwaukee area. The proposal was approved unanimously without debate by the Joint Finance Committee after lengthy private ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214727693/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:55:34 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214727693/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- The former chief financial officer for a Wisconsin-based religious group has been sentenced to four years in prison for tax ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214727882/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:39:56 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214727882/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Boys Scout Alex Derr speaks out against anit-gay rules during the Equal Scouting Summit Press Conference being held near where the Boy Scouts of America are holding their annual meeting Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Grapevine, Texas. The boxes in front of Derr hold petitions calling for the Boy Scouts of America to end its anti-gay policies. (AP Photo/LM ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214727845/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:26:30 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214727845/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 The I-Team discovered the company has a recent history of safety violations with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Thursday's accident came in the middle of a federal safety ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214726471/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:51:12 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214726471/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 President Barack Obama continues to speaks about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, as CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin of Code Pink shouted at him from the back of the auditorium. (AP Photo/Carolyn ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214726045/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:48:40 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214726045/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 But the rules that went into effect for meat on Thursday provide more detailed information. Instead of seeing a label that says, "Product of the U.S.A. and Canada," shoppers might find one that says "Born in Canada, raised and slaughtered in the United ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214725810/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:48:32 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214725810/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 The Wisconsin Historical Society has added the official portrait of former Gov. Jim Doyle to its collection of official portraits of state governors. The Doyle portrait is now on exhibit on the third floor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Chazen Museum of Art, 750 University Ave., through late summer. It was painted by David Lenz of Shorewood, a nationally recognized artist and ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214726734/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:43:11 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214726734/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 ALLOUEZ - A small basement fire turned into a major blaze in the Village of Allouez, near Green Bay. At least eight departments are working on containing the fire at the Hilltop Place Apartments. The fire was reported just before noon Thursday. According to reports from the scene people living in the apartments are safe and accounted for. However, a pair of firefighters were taken to the ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214725008/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:37:55 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214725008/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 SHEBOYGAN FALLS - The residents of a home in Sheboygan Falls have been evacuated after their home caught on fire Thursday afternoon. According to the City of Sheboygan Falls Fire Department, the fire is located at 112 Shelly Drive. The area is being evacuated, but Sheboygan Falls Police will not confirm ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214725009/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:37:54 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214725009/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 The Milwaukee County Board Thursday voted to hire an outside legal firm to help clarify and possibly mount a challenge against state legislation that would cut the authority and funding of the board. The measure, approved on a 14-4 vote, gives board Chairwoman Marina Dimitrijevic the authority to choose the legal firm and an initial budget of $25,000. County Executive Chris Abele, who lobbied ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214724368/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:29:33 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214724368/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving U.S. counterterrorism policy. But he acknowledged the targeted strikes are no "cure-all" and said he is haunted by the civilians unintentionally ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214723035/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:25:31 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214723035/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee Police are asking for the public's assistance in identifying the suspect responsible for the May 17 robbery at the Bank Mutual located at 3340 S. 27th Street. According to Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer with Milwaukee Police, the robbery happened around 2:15 p.m. "The suspect entered the bank, approached a teller, and handed her note demanding money while implying that he ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214723583/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:23:24 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214723583/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Armin Wand III (left), 32, the father of three children killed in a house fire in southwestern Wisconsin and his 18-year-old brother, Jeremy ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214723584/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:23:23 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214723584/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 A school improvement nonprofit working to get 20,000 Milwaukee children into high-performing schools by 2020 has received about $1.5 million in commitments after a donation drive this ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214723585/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:15:02 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214723585/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 A 37-year-old Milwaukee driver injured at least three women waiting for a bus Thursday when he veered off a road, plowed through a bus shelter and crashed into a building. The accident occurred about 11:20 a.m. in the 4200 block of N. 27th St. The women's injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, said Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer, Milwaukee police spokesman. Police are trying to determine ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214723586/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:15:01 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214723586/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Madison -- A proposal from Gov. Scott Walker to allow statewide GPS tracking for those under restraining orders was scaled back by the Legislature's budget committee Thursday as the panel took on a slew of criminal justice provisions. Under Walker's proposal, the state would have spent $3 million over two years to help local governments around the state set up the tracking, with the ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214723587/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:14:53 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214723587/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. on Thursday named Stephanie M. Walker as its CFO. The agency says she's unrelated to Gov. Scott Walker, and her first day will be June ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214723871/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:58:02 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214723871/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MILWAUKEE - Four people were injured after a car struck a bus shelter by 27th and Hope, two blocks north of Capitol, Wednesday morning just before 11:30 a.m. "A 1998 Buick LeSabre driven by a 37-year-old Milwaukee man veered off the road, stuck a bus shelter, and then struck a building," said Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer with Milwaukee Police. Stanmeyer said four people were taken to ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214722071/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:07:35 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214722071/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 the Green Bay Press Gazette reports . Agencies responding to the fire include those from Brown County, Hobart, De Pere, Green Bay, Bellevue and Howard. At least four pumper trucks and one ladder truck were on the scene Thursday afternoon. The fire started before noon. It intensified, with smoke shooting out of central parts of the apartment complex. Module type name is JSO Mod-Script ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214722366/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:58:48 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214722366/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking to limit the state's open records law -- potentially through language slipped into the state budget -- to keep from the public information about research until it is published or patented. No specific incidents of harmful disclosures were cited ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214722073/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:58:43 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214722073/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Legislature's finance committee has approved language in Gov. Scott Walker's executive budget that would allow the state Justice Department to move the Milwaukee crime lab out of the ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214722367/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:41:20 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214722367/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Background checks currently cost $13. The Joint Finance Committee voted 12-4 Thursday to lower the fee to $10 as it revised the state Justice Department's portion of Gov. Scott Walker's 2013-15 executive ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214722368/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:41:20 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214722368/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele came together to help break ground on a new business center in the city. They made sure to put politics aside at the opening of Data Holdings, on North 31st Street and West Highland Avenue. "Jobs aren't Republican or Democratic jobs, they're just jobs," ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214720451/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:49:16 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214720451/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 iContribute: Share your Brewers fan photos! MILWAUKEE - "We've got to start playing better baseball," said Milwaukee Brewers general manager Doug Melvin on 620WTMJ's "Wisconsin's Morning News." That demand seems obvious ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214720452/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:49:15 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214720452/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 The Austin Powder Company, which was listed as an ammonium nitrate storage facility in 2012, is within a mile of Pleasant View Elementary School in Franklin, according to the Reuters news agency. Three schools are within a mile of Royster Clark Inc. in Madison, according to Reuters. The news service published an interactive map Thursday of chemical stockpiles that it says are like the one in ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214720453/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:40:29 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214720453/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 the Chippewa Herald reports . Seth R. Furgason was charged this week with armed burglary, theft and possessing a firearm by a felon. Furgason's girlfriend told investigators that he was involved in similar burglaries in two other counties. The girlfriend said she drove Furgason to the crime scenes. According to the criminal complaint: A semiautomatic handgun and boxes of baseball cards ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214720773/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:40:27 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214720773/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 A worker is in critical condition after getting trapped in a cement mixing machine Thursday morning, the Milwaukee Fire Department said. Battalion 2 received a call at 7:48 a.m. about a person with an arm caught in a machine at Sic Lazaro on N. Teutonia Avenue, but while on the way, responders learned an entire person was trapped, Battalion Chief Raymond Groth said. The fire department then ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214720454/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:40:23 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214720454/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 The travel organization AAA estimates 627,000 people are expected to travel by land during the weekend in Wisconsin and another 33,000 by air. Travel is expected to be down about 1.6 percent from last ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214720774/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:24:58 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214720774/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Wisconsin state workers who smoke would have to pay $50 more per month for health insurance under a Gov. Scott Walker proposal that has won approval by the Legislature’s budget committee. The Joint Finance Committee on voted 13-3 to approve the fee. Twelve other states currently impose similar fees but anti-smoking groups including the American Cancer Society and the American Lung ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214719687/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:07:33 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214719687/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Google swapped out its traditional logo today for an emotional piece of art. The drawing, part of the company's annual Doodle 4 Google competition, shows a daughter racing into the arms of her soldier father. It's poignant, smart, and did not come from Google's team of professional artists. This one came from a ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214720455/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:05:42 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214720455/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Madison police interrupted an early morning burglary attempt Thursday at a golf course and restaurant, causing a would-be burglar to flee empty-handed, according to a police news release. An alarm activated about 1:20 a.m. Thursday at the Bridges Golf Course & Restaurant, 2702 Shopko Drive, and when officers arrived, they found a club house door pried open. Nothing was found to be missing. ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214719158/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:24:21 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214719158/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 provision to lessen regulation of rent-to-own stores hangs uncertainly in the balance of negotiations taking place Thursday morning between Republican lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) acknowledged Thursday that the fate of the proposal by Gov. Scott Walker is unclear as the Legislature's budget committee prepares to take up the issue later in ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214718872/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:24:17 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214718872/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Twenty-five-year-old Nicole Tieman pleaded guilty to her second OWI offense Wednesday. She has been booked into the Milwaukee County Correctional Facility in ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214719159/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:07:55 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214719159/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 SPARTA, Wis.-A Wisconsin teen is the winner of Doodle 4 Google's national contest with her art called "Coming Home." Google says millions of votes were cast on 130,000 submissions in its annual contest to design the logo on Google's home page. Sabrina Brady is a senior at Sparta High School. Brady says she created the art in honor of the day her Dad returned home from Iraq ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214718873/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:06:58 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214718873/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 The national foreclosure rate was 2.84 percent in March, down from 3.49 percent in March 2012. Milwaukee-area foreclosures decreased 0.74 percentage points in March, the same decrease of the previous month, for a rate of 1.86 percent, according to CoreLogic. The area's foreclosure rates have been slowly but steadily declining. The rate in March 2012 was 2.6 percent. The Milwaukee, Waukesha ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214718176/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:35:15 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214718176/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 RACINE - We Energies says that about 2,400 customers have lost power in Racine after an outage. The outage happened at about 9:20 a.m. Spokesman Brian Manthey tells 620WTMJ's Michelle Richards that crews are on the scene of the outage to try and get people back online. He said heavy winds could be a factor in the ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717265/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:19:15 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717265/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Legislature's budget committee is set to decide whether to exempt rent-to-own stores from Wisconsin's consumer protection laws. Rent-to-own businesses offer customers a chance to rent items without a credit check. Customers can exit and rejoin their contracts with an option to buy the items when they fulfill the terms. Critics contend the businesses prey on ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717263/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:19:14 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717263/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Click here for 620WTMJ's "Under the Influence" section on drunk driving cases MILWAUKEE - According to a published report, an aide to Gov. Scott Walker's campaign who resigned Friday has begun a jail sentence for drunk ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717266/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:19:12 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717266/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MADISON - The State of Wisconsin says that the latest deadline for the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection's Wisconsin Do Not Call List is approaching. The deadline comes May 31st for to register their mobile, phone or VoIP number on the ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717268/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:19:09 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717268/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 A color guard representing various service branches marches down Wisconsin Ave. during last year's Milwaukee Memorial Day Parade. This year's parade begins at 2 p.m. ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717269/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:10:51 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717269/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Between 2,300 and 2,400 We Energies customers in the Racine area are without power Thursday morning, a utility spokesman said. We Energies was notified of the outage about 9:20 a.m. and crews were still patrolling the lines about 10 a.m. trying to find the source of the problem, We Energies spokesman Brian Manthey said. "There were some strong winds in the area before the outage but we ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717532/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:10:49 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717532/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 the La Crosse Tribune reports . The woman said she woke Saturday to Jerald Jackson, 65, of Onalaska, burning and assaulting her, according to the complaint filed in La Crosse County Circuit Court. She said he also assaulted her early Sunday. Jackson denies the offense. Module type name is JSO Mod-Script ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717533/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:10:48 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717533/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Teen artist Sabrina Brady of Sparta, Wis., has turned Google's iconic homepage doodle into an emotional artwork depicting her reunion with her father after his 18-month deployment in Iraq. The art, winner of Google's annual doodle contest for students, also won an audience of millions when it was featured Thursday ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717535/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:10:46 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717535/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Green Bay police are investigating a home invasion armed robbery in which four suspects entered a home Wednesday night and held a female occupant at gun ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717536/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:10:45 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717536/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 the Racine Journal Times reports . The joke resulted in someone showing up naked at a woman's door. Jason T. Willis, 30, of Waterford, has been charged with felony identity theft on accusations he pretended to be a neighbor and posted fraudulent ads on Craigslist soliciting sexual activity. The neighbor contacted the Racine County Sheriff's Office on Nov. 26 after a man reportedly ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717534/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:10:44 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717534/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) -- A semi driver has pleaded guilty to a felony charge in a fatal interstate crash that killed another truck driver in Dunn ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717430/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:54:22 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214717430/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Moose International Convention , with an estimated 8,000 Lodge and Chapter leaders of the Moose fraternal and service organization coming to Milwaukee, begins today through next Wednesday. This year, the Moose will celebrate the 100th anniversary ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214715188/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:58:07 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214715188/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Sydney Angle , 9, was one of the seven young students killed during at Plaza Towers Elementary School. In all, the tornado killed 24 people. In Fond du Lac, local radio stations established a memorial fund in Sydney's honor. WTMJ reported that donations can be made at Hometown Bank, 80 Sheboygan St. in Fond du Lac. Donations should be marked as going to the "Dan and Nicole Angle ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214715967/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:58:03 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214715967/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Census Bureau data released Thursday show the city had 598,916 residents in July. It gained about 1,300 residents from 2011 to 2012 and about 2,400 the year before ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214715970/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:41:38 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214715970/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex is facing federal sanctions after being cited for failing to protect patients from each ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214715969/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:41:38 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214715969/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Nine-year-old Sydney Angle was a student at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla. She died Monday when a massive tornado tore through the ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214715971/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:41:37 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214715971/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) -- The city of Manitowoc has received a $1 million grant from the federal government to clean up properties with environmental ... http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214715968/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:41:37 -0400 http://www.milwaukeesun.com/index.php/sid/214715968/scat/d2a460830d69bfa0