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  • Tornado levels homes in Oklahoma City trailer park

    People survey damage from a tornado that hit Edmond, Okla., on Sunday, May 19, 2013. A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged roofs and structures near Oklahoma City and kicked up debris in Wichita, ...

  • Man sued by his former lawyer then alleges malpractice by lawyer

    What started as a routine legal matter has turned into a nightmarish and costly courthouse roller coaster for Mark Halbman, a Menomonee Falls man who is still in court 13 years after injuring his neck in a traffic accident. Halbman, 53, has gone from being a client of attorney Mitchell Barrock - who initially won an impressive six-figure jury award for his client - to becoming a defendant in a ...

  • West Allis police arrest man in womans death

    WEST ALLIS -- West Allis police have arrested a 48-year-old man in the death of a 63-year-old woman who was found in a hallway of her apartment ...

  • Severe storms rumble across eastern Minn. western Wis.

    MINNEAPOLIS - Skies turned dark and the rain came down in torrents as severe storms rumbled across eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. The storms sparked numerous severe thunderstorm warnings and some tornado warnings as they advanced from south to north Sunday, though no confirmed touchdowns. There were scattered reports of power outages, downed lines and tree damage across the region as ...

  • Quarterly deadline nears to be added to Wisconsin no-call list

    The quarterly deadline to place a telephone number on Wisconsin's no-call list is approaching. The deadline to be added to the list is May 31. Any number put on the list then will be protected from unwanted phone solicitations and text messages starting July 1. Registrations are good for two years, and people can re-register their numbers at any time. The list is updated four times a ...

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The Pledge

Sean Penn's The Pledge is about a man named Jerry Black who is absolutely sure that he is right about something, but is never able to prove it. There is a kind of terrible grandeur to Penn's vision of Jerry because Penn ensures that we see he is right, but because he is never able to convince anyone around him, he is literally driven to madness. The last five minutes of the film feature th ... ...

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  • Wisconsin not likely to consider same-sex unions

    Wisconsin's neighbor Minnesota may have become the 12th state in the country to legalize same-sex unions on Tuesday. But gay marriage is not on the legislative agenda in Wisconsin, and that's not expected to change in the near future. "I just don't think it's very likely in this state anytime soon," Joe Heim, a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse political ...

  • Wisconsin Gov. Walker to headline Iowa GOP event

    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will visit Iowa this week to deliver a speech that may bolster speculation that he will run for president in ...

  • Wisconsin bill would eliminate workplace flu-shot requirement

    Madison - Wisconsin employers, including hospitals, nursing homes and other health care agencies, could no longer require workers to get flu shots under a bill pending in the Legislature. Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt (R-Fond du Lac) said he began drafting the legislation after several hospital workers and health care contractors in his district complained they were fired after refusing to be ...

  • DNR considers purchase of 140 acres in Oconomowoc River valley

    A140-acre property at 1147 St. Augustine Road in the Town of Erin is to be aquired by the DNR for addition to the Loew Lake Unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest in Washington ...

  • New Milwaukee SDC member sees lack of trust on board

    Newly sworn in and attending her first board meeting, Social Development Commissioner Magda G. Peck listened for more than an hour as the commission discussed and debated a slate of issues including the hiring of a search firm to find a new CEO, where to hold the annual meeting and how to elect a new executive committee for the anti-poverty agency. The tone was sometimes friendly, but at other ...

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