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  • Aaron Rodgers Its time to let the healing process begin toward Brett Favre

    Packers want Favre 'back in the family' GREEN BAY - Aaron Rodgers has taken another step to end any bad feelings Packers fans have toward former quarterback Brett Favre. Rodgers appeared on the Jim Rome Show Wednesday, and according to NFL.com, said he would be "excited" if Brett Favre is inducted into the Hall of Fame, and his number is retired with the Packers. ...

  • Wisconsin budget panel limits challenges to large wells

    The Legislature's budget writing committee set aside fiscal issues for a time this week to take up the increasingly contentious issue of high-capacity wells and whether state regulators should consider the effect of a large well on others nearby. At the end of Tuesday's deliberations, the Republican-controlled panel voted, 12-4, in favor of a motion that would bar persons from ...

  • Seventh-grader dies during gym class

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  • GE unveils software that solves MRI blind-spot problem

    Not long after going to work for GE Healthcare, Kevin Koch was playing around with a magnetic resonance scanner when an idea came to him that might solve a vexing problem in imaging: The technology produces poor images near metal implants, such as those used for artificial hips and knees, now in millions of people. Koch, a Delafield native who earned a doctorate in physics from Yale ...

  • Wanted McHenry County Fugitive Nabbed In Milwaukee

    MILWAUKEE (STMW) — The list of Top Ten fugitives in McHenry County got shorter after a man wanted for the sexual abuse of a girl was captured by police and federal agents in Milwaukee. On Nov. 8, 2012, Algonquin police obtained an arrest warrant for Brandon A. Williams of Milwaukee for sexually abusing and choking a juvenile girl, a statement from the McHenry County Sheriff's office ...

Movie Review

Indecent Proposal [DVD]

Indecent Proposal uses an unconventional story to support some very conventional beliefs: Marriage is an important and lasting institution, money isn't everything, forgiving is more important that forgetting, and love is required for lovemaking. Everyone knows that this is the movie that involves the million-dollar question, the indecent proposal of the title. It comes from billionai ... ...

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  • Man attempting to outrun FBI had to be lowered from building by a stretcher

    MILWAUKEE - There was commotion in downtown Milwaukee after the corners of Third and Highland Avenue were blocked off Wednesday morning. Police and the FBI attempted to serve a warrant to a man staying in an apartment above Tutto's Restaurant. The man attempted to flee from them in his underwear. He tried using a fire escape but was caught. Milwaukee Fire assisted in lowering the man ...

  • Lake Geneva architect says his buildings withstand tornadoes

    LAKE GENEVA - After seeing the devastation in Oklahoma, veteran architect D. Thomas Kincaid wanted to tell us about a building design he contends could survive a tornado. In his Lake Geneva home, Kincaid showed TODAY'S TMJ4 reporter Tom Murray renderings and plans for monolithic domes. Essentially, they are upside down concrete bowls reinforced with steel. "Monolithic means one. ...

  • Settlement to compensate Wisconsin e-book customers

    Wisconsin consumers will be compensated for overpaying for e-books and may benefit from lower prices in the future, as a result of a settlement that top justice officials have reached with Penguin Group, officials announced Wednesday. Attorneys general in 33 states, including Wisconsin, reached a settlement in a lawsuit against Penguin that accused the company of fixing prices in collusion with ...

  • Scott Walker plan allows rent-to-own contracts lacking key details for consumers

    Madison -- Rent-to-own stores could encourage customers to sign contracts lacking key details such as the total payment needed to take ownership of a television and then later fill in these blank spaces in the agreements, under a proposal by Gov. Scott Walker a key committee will consider Thursday. The provision is one of several in the Republican governor's 2013-'15 budget bill that ...

  • Brewers look bad in lopsided loss to Dodgers

    After what may have been the worst game yet in a season of mostly bad baseball, Ryan Braun hit for the cycle in summarizing the current state of the Milwaukee Brewers. "It's been pretty terrible. Miserable," Braun said following the 9-2 loss Wednesday afternoon to the Los Angeles Dodgers. "It's no fun playing like this. We're barely even competitive." When it ...

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