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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Renewed search for Wis. girl missing since 1996

    SPOONER, Wis. (AP) -- Washburn County sheriff's officials say they consider the case of a 15-year-old girl missing for 17 years still open and ...

  • 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 ...

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The Last Command [DVD]

The Last Command [DVD]

The Last Command is one of Josef von Sternbergs most conceptually daring films, a complex multi-layered narrative that mixes past and present, reality and fantasy, objectivity and subjectivity while also offering up an incisive portrait of the inner workings of a Hollywood st ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • Obama and Walker earn identical approval ratings in Wisconsin

    No one would mistake Scott Walker and Barack Obama for political twins. Yet in their public standing in this polarized state, they’ve come to mirror each other in striking ways. We saw it in 2012 when the two weathered Wisconsin’s turmoil and tribal division by earning the very same share of the vote (53%) five months apart. And we’re seeing the pattern persist in the off ...

  • Wis. Democratic Party adviser is leaving

    Zielinski had been demoted in March to an adviser from his job as the party's spokesman. He had compared Republican Gov. Scott Walker to Milwaukee serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer on ...

  • Guide to Milwaukee summer festivals

    Fireworks light up the sky over Summerfest on opening day in 2012. The 2013 summer festival season kicks off Saturday with the Highland Games and ends with Indian Summer Festival on Sept. ...

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