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  • Vacation rentals could put homeowners on the wrong side of the law

    Airbnb.com and similar websites to rent rooms to travelers could be operating unlicensed inns, according to the trade group for Wisconsin's bed and breakfast operators. As a result, those homeowners are avoiding health inspections, license fees and room taxes. "Sometimes it's not a fair playing field," said Liz Brown, co-owner of the Stagecoach Inn, a licensed 12-room bed ...

  • Harley riders take the scenic route to benefit COPS

    MILWAUKEE - House of Harley-Davidson hosted the second annual Law Enforcement Ride, benefitting the COPS organization, that's the Concerns of Police Survivors. Officers led the ride Saturday which began in Milwaukee and took a scenic route to the COPS Kids Camp in East Troy, Wisconsin. Today's TMJ4's Todd Hicks spoke with a woman, still healing after her loved one was hit by a ...

  • Special Education teacher charged with exposing himself to students

    Milwaukee--An MPS teacher has been accused of exposing himself to his students. Kevin France, 37, worked at Mary McLeod Bethune Academy on N. 35th st. According to the criminal complaint, the allegations go as far back as December 21 when four female students from his class reported the incidents to Principal Carol McKay. McKay told police that she separated the students and had them each ...

  • Volunteers from Brookfield are headed to Moore Oklahoma

    BROOKFIELD, Wis. - Elmbrook Church has a regular disaster response team, that according to its website, is ready to mobilize within 48 hours. This weekend instead of going to a party, a picnic or a parade, members of this non-denominational church are heading to Moore, Oklahoma, to help those devastated by a tornado that killed 24 people. The team had planned to go to Texas last week after ...

  • Milwaukee participates in nationwide Monsanto March

    MILWAUKEE - A thousand people showed up at the Milwaukee March Against Monsanto Saturday. Demonstrators gathered at Broadway and St. Paul and marched north on Water Street to City Hall. Michael Pettit helped to organize the protest and says it's an effort to show a growing public rejection of Monsanto, which has increasing control over food production by bio-tech companies. Speakers ...

Movie Review

Michael Collins

It took Irish director Neil Jordan ("The Crying Game," "Interview With the Vampire") twelve years to get his romantic biopic "Michael Collins" to the screen. It went through a number of other hands, but through persistence and a bit of luck, Jordan finally secured $28 million from producer mogul David Geffen. Geffen allowed him complete artistic freedom to paint his own portrait of this mythical ... ...

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  • Historic Racine building catches fire Saturday

    RACINE, Wis. - A piece of history nearly went down in flames Saturday morning. The former Women's Club of Racine at 740 Lake Avenue caught fire and were it not for an immediate call to 9-1-1, firefighters say it could have been a total loss. When firefighters arrived, they found heavy smoke coming from the stage area of the main floor and were able to extinguish the flames and ventilate ...

  • Head-on crash kills off-duty Twin Lakes officer

    TWIN LAKES, Wis. - Twin Lakes police are mourning the loss of one their own this Memorial Day weekend. Lt. Jeffrey Kreft was on his way home after third shift Saturday, when his vehicle was hit head-on. The accident happened around 6:30am on Highway 120, about a half mile south of Highway 36 in the Town of Lyons. Driver of the other vehicle, a 16 year old man, was traveling southbound on ...

  • Wisconsin firefighters farmers map hazards online

    Without even thinking, Joe Ortner rattles off a list of items on his family's dairy farm that could kill you: 1,000 gallons of diesel, 500 gallons of gas, cleaning chemicals in the milking parlor, oil and lubricant for repair work and a 6-foot-deep manure pond in which you could drown. He pauses and adds three bulls to the list. Agriculture remains one of the nation's most dangerous ...

  • Woman acts as proxy in delivery of Memorial Day flowers to graves

    Stephanie Sehrbrock looks for a grave where she will deliver flowers for a veteran buried at the Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Union Grove on ...

  • Game blog Fiers allows three home runs in Brewers loss

    Box score: Pirates 5, Brewers 2 The Pittsburgh Pirates hit three home runs off fill-in starter Mike Fiers and beat the Brewers, 5-2, Saturday afternoon. Pirates third baseman Pedro Alvarez hit two homers, including one in the ninth off Alfredo Figaro and that cleared the second deck in right field. All of the Pittsburgh home runs were tagged. Fiers was filling in for Kyle Lohse, who ...

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