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  • Butterflies arrivals in Wisconsin are running very late

    Judith Huf has spent much of this spring watching birds when what she really wants to watch are butterflies. This spring butterflies have been late to the party in Wisconsin with few of the fluttering stained-glass window-paned creatures making an appearance yet. "It's been very discouraging," said Huf, who compiled the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center's butterfly checklist. ...

  • Two Milwaukee men charged in double drive-through bank robbery

    As if robbing a bank from the drive-through window weren't audacious enough, two Milwaukee men charged in such a heist apparently tried to double their take, and victims' confusion, by using two matching cars. Weirder yet, it almost worked. The thieves made off with about $6,000 before they were caught. According to a criminal complaint issued Monday: A drive-through teller at ...

  • Wausau Paper finalizes plan to sell two remaining Wisconsin mills

    Wausau Paper Corp., finalizing its withdrawal from making paper in Wisconsin after 114 years, signed a final agreement to sell its two remaining Wisconsin paper mills, it said Monday. Those two mills will merge with two other Wisconsin paper mills under new ownership, becoming the state's biggest papermaking company by employment. As of Monday, the new paper company also has a formal name: ...

  • Study Less Lake Superior habitat for big trout

    DULUTH, Minn. (AP) -- New research finds that Lake Superior's warming water probably already is affecting its most abundant big fish, the cold water-loving siscowet lake ...

  • Wis. police become more aggressive with redaction

    MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Brenda O'Malley figured she'd get the police accident report and file an insurance claim after her teenage daughter got into a car accident in Sheboygan Falls this past ...

Movie Review

Hulk

Hulk

Ang Lees ambitious big-screen version of Hulk is much like the titular green behemoth himself: Grand in scale and purpose, it is a weighty, muscular adaptation of the popular comic book series, but its own bulk often gets in the way. At times elegant and other times clumsy, Hulk is frequently entertaining, but too often dour and humorless, the clear result of the filmmakers passiona ... ...

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  • Wisconsin Job training rule for food stamps would trim rolls by half report says

    MADISON, Wis. -- Requiring a job or basic training for one from able-bodied participants in the state's food stamp program would cause about half of them to drop out of the program -- a total of tens of thousands of people statewide and 14,500 in Milwaukee, according to a new report. The new projections come from the Legislature's nonpartisan budget office, which last week released ...

  • Wisconsin experts brace for possible severe weather

    MILWAUKEE - Parts of the south and Midwest are being pummeled by tornadoes and other severe weather, and folks in Wisconsin are bracing for the potential threat. A tornado hit the ground on Monday, tearing through Oklahoma City. Forecasters and volunteers in wisconsin stand ready. More than 50 tornadoes have touched down across the plains and the Midwest. Things are a bit quieter closer to ...

  • Family of missing college student Jessica Benson fearing for her safety

    MILWAUKEE - The family of Jessica Benson say they're fearing for the college student's safety. She hasn't been seen or heard from for nearly two weeks. Donna Benson said her daughter is not the type to run away. She works at Educator's Credit Union and was scheduled to graduate from Mount Mary College last Friday. Jessica Benson was working at the bank when it was robbed on ...

  • Video Pug life on display at all-pug Wisconsin festival

    A weekend event in Wisconsin was all about pugs. Hundreds of pugs and their owners dressed in costumes, took part in competitions and just enjoyed the pug ...

  • Drugs discovered after bag fall out of bra police say

    Police discovered drugs on a 35-year-old Wausau woman Monday after a bag fell out of her bra while she removed beef sticks and razor heads that she'd allegedly stolen from a grocery ...

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