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  • Guides lead exploration of Wisconsins great outdoors

    Impressed with knowledge Dan and Shirley Heger, retirees from Pewaukee who now live in Stitzer, have gone on a half dozen field trips, including trumpeter swan banding, searching for elk calves and hiking through barrens. The hiking trip was a revelation for Dan Heger, who was surprised to learn there are desert cacti native to Wisconsin. They're also going on trips to the Beaver Creek ...

  • Green Bay coach Wardle to keep job after probe

    GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men's basketball coach Brian Wardle will keep his job after an independent review largely cleared him of allegations that he mistreated his players, university officials said Friday. At least one player had accused Wardle of using vulgar and obscene language, and a second player told officials Wardle forced him to work out ...

  • Milwaukee police chief blasts Scott Walker Wisconsin Legislature

    Police Chief Edward Flynn on Friday blasted Gov. Scott Walker for being anti-urban and the Legislature's budget committee for "gratuitous" decisions that killed a community policing grant for his department and set in motion the departure of the state crime lab from Milwaukee. In an expansive interview with the Journal Sentinel in a Third Ward coffee shop that touched on ...

  • Tap your way to a better life

    Operation Emotional Freedom MILWAUKEE - The videos are all over the Internet - instructions on how to tap your way to a better life! It's called "Emotional Freedom Techniques" - or EFT for short. The videos featuring people lighting tapping their foreheads, faces, wrists and other parts of their bodies. Sophia Cayer, is an "EFT Founding Master" and wrote a book about ...

  • Chief Keefs rap sheet too hot for Milwaukee club

    MILWAUKEE - The reputation of Chicago rapper Keith "Chief Keef" Kozart caught up with him earlier in the week, costing the performer a gig ...

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WALL•E [Blu-Ray]

WALL•E [Blu-Ray]

Pixars WALLE so thoroughly embodies the greatest pleasures the movies have to offer--heart, humor, action, emotion, not to mention grand visual sweep that can only come from a genuine sense of vision--that it goes directly into the sublime. A daring computer-animated fable about loneliness, ... ...

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  • Police say Thong Cape Scooter Man didnt break law

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A man known to ride through Madison on a scooter -- dressed in thong underwear and a cape -- may be disturbing to ...

  • Dead Pa. babys dad believes in divine healing

    FILE - This undated file photo combination provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Herbert and Catherine Schaible. At a bail hearing Friday, May 24, 2013, a Philadelphia judge ordered the couple, who believe in faith healing over medicine, be held without bail on third-degree murder charges in the April death of their 8-month-old son, Brandon. They previously had been convicted of ...

  • Fond du Lac vets heroism may yield nations highest military honor

    World War II paratrooper units were light on their feet - they carried everything on their backs and didn't travel in armored vehicles. So when James "Maggie" Megellas saw the German Mark V Panther tank bearing down on his platoon in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge, he stuck his hands into his pockets and pulled out two grenades. Then he ran toward the deadly machine whose ...

  • Wisconsin Walkers Iowa trip adds fuel to rumors of presidential bid

    WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- Gov. Scott Walker this week 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 Thursday night and reminded the attendees of the $75-per-person ...

  • Kids busted throwing balloons from car

    LANCASTER, Wis. (AP) -- Two 18-year-olds have been arrested for tossing water balloons from a car, causing damage to at least three other ...

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