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  • Assembly passes state budget heads to Senate

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The state Assembly has passed the state budget on a 55-42 vote. The vote came abruptly on Wednesday after Democrats surprisingly decided against offering any amendments. Democratic Minority Leader Peter Barca says Republicans were clear no changes would be made, so Democrats instead were going to take their opposition directly to the public. The $70 billion budget would ...

  • Wooden beam could be detached part of shipwreck

    FAIRPORT, Mich. -; Archaeologists say a wooden beam found embedded in the floor of Lake Michigan wasn't attached to a larger vessel, but that it could be a detached piece of wreckage from a ship that disappeared while exploring the Great Lakes in the 17th ...

  • Milwaukee man is shot police arrest suspect

    A 31-year-old Milwaukee man is in grave condition Wednesday after being shot Tuesday afternoon. The man was shot about 2:20 p.m. in the block of N. 33rd St. and taken to a hospital, Milwaukee police Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer said Wednesday. Police arrested a 30-year-old Milwaukee man who will be referred to the Milwaukee County district attorney's office. To view the latest crime news and an ...

  • Head of Wisconsin Center District says it has no money for arena

    While no specifics have emerged on how a new, multipurpose arena for Milwaukee would be financed, the chairman of the Wisconsin Center District made it clear on Wednesday that the center doesn't have enough tax revenue to help pay for it. After district officials outlined a disappointing financial year so far at the Delta Center, the U.S. Cellular Arena and the Milwaukee Theatre, chairman ...

  • MLB now interviewing players in Biogenesis probe

    June 4, 2013: MLB trying to suspend Ryan Braun, other players, report says Armed with enough evidence to likely result in some suspensions, Major League Baseball investigators have begun interviewing players connected to the Biogenesis clinic alleged to have sold performance-enhancing drugs. ...

Movie Review

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) [DVD]

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) [DVD]

Luchino Viscontis opulent historical epic The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) is, along with Jean-Luc Godards Contempt (1964) and Roman Polanskis Repulsion (1967), one of the great European-American art films of the 1960s. After the 1950s saw the increasing popularity of am ... ...

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  • Summer events galore planned for this weekend in Milwaukee

    MILWAUKEE - This weekend in Wisconsin will be anything but boring, and there will be a lot going on to satisfy just about everyone's taste. In Milwaukee, it's an Arts Extravaganza. ...

  • Antonio Barbeau testifies against his friend Nathan Paape in murder of great-grandmother

    Chilling testimony in trial with teen accused of murdering elderly womanh SHEBOYGAN - Antonio Barbeau, the boy who, along with his friend Nathan Paape, allegedly killed his great-grandmother, testified in Paape's trial on Wednesday. Barbeau testified that the weekend before the murder, he and Paape had discussed ways to get money. When he said his great-grandmother had money, they ...

  • Wis. welfare-to-work incentives could trim cases

    nearly 15,000 people were in the program last month. But new incentives could decrease those numbers. One provides an initial payment for people who stay on a job for 31 days and a second payment for staying employed for four months. There are also cash incentives for earning a promotion and higher pay, which would eventually help people leave the program. The welfare-to-work program is called ...

  • Wisconsin LEDs light up LAs streets

    Los Angeles hired BetaLED, a division of Ruud Lighting in Sturtevant, to carry out the retrofit program when it was launched more than four years ago. The Wisconsin lighting technology firm was sold to North Carolina-based Cree Inc. since the program was ...

  • Scaleup Milwaukee initiative to accelerate growth at selected companies

    effort organized by the Greater Milwaukee Committee to spur more business growth here, will start a pilot project in September to help selected local companies accelerate their growth, organizers said in a ...

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