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  • Crews renew search for girl missing in Washburn County since 1996

    Search crews took to the ground and water this week in Washburn County searching for a girl who went missing more than 17 years ago at the age of ...

  • Larry the Logroller back in full glory in Wabeno

    Wabeno -- A treasured landmark has been returned to a small town in northern Wisconsin with a rich history in the logging industry. The giant fiberglass statue of Larry the Logroller has been keeping watch over the logging museum in the Forest County community of Wabeno for many years, but in January it sustained extensive damage by a falling tree. Larry, in pieces, was shipped to an auto body ...

  • ABB increasing Wisconsin presence with Innovation Campus headquarters

    For a company that operates in more than 100 countries, ABB Inc. keeps a low profile in Wisconsin. That may have ended in January, when ABB announced plans to develop a new regional headquarters at Innovation Campus, the new technology park being developed by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. ABB employs over 29,000 people in Canada, Mexico and the United States and over 145,000 people ...

  • City axes bra ban at historic Milwaukee bar

    (Fotolia) The owner of a Milwaukee bowling alley and bar who was recently told to remove hundreds of bras hanging from the ceiling due to it being a fire hazard has been allowed to put them back ...

  • Powerball dazzles hopefuls in Milwaukee

    MILWAUKEE - Powerball was quite the show-stopper this weekend. Saturday night's drawing was expected at $600-million. Today's TMJ4's Keller Russell was out talking to hopefuls in Milwaukee. For some, it was their first time to buy a ticket. Just how much would it take for you to give up your job? Russell spoke with a financial adviser who says, for instance, if you make ...

Movie Review

Garden State [DVD]

Garden State [DVD]

Zack Braff looks like an ordinary guy, which is intrinsic to his appeal. As J.D., the central character of the often-surreal TV hospital comedy Scrubs, he has grounded himself as an identifiable everyguy who spends much of his life, like many of us do, confounded by the world aroun ... ...

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  • Drivers tell of traffic nightmares on I-94

    MILWAUKEE - Drivers in both directions of I-94 in Milwaukee County were forced to inch along, as construction work completely shut down the highway at Rawson. Today's TMJ4's Todd Hicks spoke with some angry people, stuck in traffic, that according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation stretched at least three miles in the southbound lanes. Some people, like Jim Timmerman, ...

  • West Allis police have man in custody in death

    WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) -- West Allis police have a man in custody in connection to the death of a 63-year-old woman who was found in a hallway of an apartment ...

  • Republican lawmakers may try to resurrect bail bonding

    Madison - Two years after lawmakers unsuccessfully tried to enlarge the state budget by creating a privately run bail bonds system in Wisconsin, the controversial idea could be returning. Last time, the bipartisan group of opponents included the state's judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, sheriffs and clerks of court - virtually the entire legal system. Gov. Scott Walker ultimately ...

  • Police have questions after West Allis woman dies

    WEST ALLIS, Wis. - An apartment complex in the 74-hundred block of West Washington Street for people with mental health issues is the scene of a death investigation this weekend. Police aren't yet saying what happened to a 63 year old woman, discovered dead in the hallway outside her apartment Friday afternoon. Officers are now questioning one man, but have not said whether the two ...

  • Hectored by flies whooping cranes still struggling in Wisconsin

    endangered whooping cranes are abandoning their nests, but the pesky insects might not be the only reason the birds are struggling in Wisconsin. Black flies are especially prevalent at Necedah, northeast of Tomah, where whooping cranes were reintroduced in 2001 in the hope they would once again inhabit - and potentially flourish in - the eastern United States. The bird's story over the ...

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