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  • Summer events galore planned for this weekend in Milwaukee

    MILWAUKEE - This weekend in Wisconsin will be anything but boring, and there will be a lot going on to satisfy just about everyone's taste. In Milwaukee, it's an Arts Extravaganza. ...

  • Antonio Barbeau testifies against his friend Nathan Paape in murder of great-grandmother

    Chilling testimony in trial with teen accused of murdering elderly womanh SHEBOYGAN - Antonio Barbeau, the boy who, along with his friend Nathan Paape, allegedly killed his great-grandmother, testified in Paape's trial on Wednesday. Barbeau testified that the weekend before the murder, he and Paape had discussed ways to get money. When he said his great-grandmother had money, they ...

  • Wis. welfare-to-work incentives could trim cases

    nearly 15,000 people were in the program last month. But new incentives could decrease those numbers. One provides an initial payment for people who stay on a job for 31 days and a second payment for staying employed for four months. There are also cash incentives for earning a promotion and higher pay, which would eventually help people leave the program. The welfare-to-work program is called ...

  • Wisconsin LEDs light up LAs streets

    Los Angeles hired BetaLED, a division of Ruud Lighting in Sturtevant, to carry out the retrofit program when it was launched more than four years ago. The Wisconsin lighting technology firm was sold to North Carolina-based Cree Inc. since the program was ...

  • Scaleup Milwaukee initiative to accelerate growth at selected companies

    effort organized by the Greater Milwaukee Committee to spur more business growth here, will start a pilot project in September to help selected local companies accelerate their growth, organizers said in a ...

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The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) [DVD]

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) [DVD]

Luchino Viscontis opulent historical epic The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) is, along with Jean-Luc Godards Contempt (1964) and Roman Polanskis Repulsion (1967), one of the great European-American art films of the 1960s. After the 1950s saw the increasing popularity of am ... ...

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  • Wisconsin ranked in top 5 states for medical imaging jobs

    Wisconsin is one of the top five states for direct jobs in the medical imaging industry, with an estimated 6,920 people employed in the manufacturing, selling and servicing of computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and other equipment, according to a new study from the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance. The study, based on 2011 data, was done for the trade group by Charles ...

  • Plan to spend millions more on vouchers in Racine County dropped

    Madison -- Just 15 hours after an Assembly Republican plan to put millions more toward voucher schools in Racine came to light, leaders are pulling back on the plan. In other backpedaling, Assembly Republicans are abandoning a plan to let the Department of Natural Resources set rules aimed at keeping protesters away from the site of a proposed mine in northern Wisconsin. Under ...

  • Prosecutors wont pursue charges in Racine boys 1988 drowning

    The push for a criminal case in the 1988 drowning death of an 8-year-old Racine boy has stalled after a decision this week by the Jefferson County district attorney's office. The boy's mother, Carmin White, never believed the coroner's ruling, that the death of Artis Echoles, who was in foster care at the time, was an accident. In January, she sent a letter to a Jefferson County ...

  • Mens Wearhouse ousts founder pitchman Zimmer

    FILE - In this Thursday, May 6, 1999 file photo, George Zimmer, second from left, gestures to Andy Dolich prior to a meeting, in Oakland, Calif. Men's Wearhouse Inc. says it has dismissed Zimmer, its founder and executive chairman. In a terse release issued Wednesday, June 19, 2013, the company didn't give a reason for the abrupt firing of Zimmer, who built Men's Wearhouse from ...

  • Assembly wont make Racine voucher change

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says the state budget will not be amended to change criteria affecting who can enroll in the voucher school program in ...

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