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  • PBA Summer Swing features testy clash of the keglers

    One of the best rivalries in sports - maybe the best, if the measuring sticks are talent, head-to-head results, controversy and acrimony - happens to be in bowling. That's right. Kegling. Tenpins. Sean Rash and Jason Belmonte are two of the hottest professional bowlers on the planet. They are high-rev, power players in the primes of their career - Rash is 30 and Belmonte is 29 - and they ...

  • Big buzz over Powerball jackpot

    The chances of winning are low -- 1 in 175 million. But should you strike it big with the Powerball drawing, financial advisor and CPA Mike Arnow says there's three things you should ...

  • Milwaukee police investigate 2 northwest side shootings

    Milwaukee police were investigating two shootings that happened about two miles apart on the city's northwest side Saturday morning. In the first, a 47-year-old man was shot while sitting with a friend in the 4700 block of N. 76th Street. Police said a black SUV pulled in front of the pair and a suspect shot the victim once before exiting the vehicle to demand the victim's cellphone. ...

  • Charitys investment a prescription for profits for drug maker

    What happens when a disease-fighting charity dives into venture capitalism? In the first case of its kind, the results include one of the planet's most expensive pills, huge sales projections for a drug company and windfalls for executives who sold stock in the glow of enthusiastic news releases about the drug. Kalydeco is a breakthrough drug designed from knowledge of the genetic roots ...

  • Here are the numbers for $600 million Powerball drawing

    Here are the winning numbers in tonight's Powerball drawing: 10 13 14 22 52 with a 11 as the Powerball. The jackpot rose to a record total of an estimated $600 million. Module type name is JSO Mod-Script ...

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Rocky Balboa

Rocky Balboa

It is all too appropriate that Sylvester Stallone is returning to South Philly pugilist Rocky Balboa, the character who kicked off his career and with whom he will always be most associated. The original Rocky (1976) was an allegory (self-conscious or not) of Stallones own life a ... ...

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  • Jeff Bianchi bullpen get job done in Brewers victory

    MLB: Power rankings St. Louis – Jeff Bianchi made the most of a rare opportunity on Saturday night. Starting at second base in place of the slumping Rickie Weeks, Bianchi delivered a clutch two-out, two-run single to center in the top of the 10th inning to spark a 6-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium. It was just the second start of the season for the ...

  • DNR has sold state land before

    Last week, the Legislature's budget committee cut funding for the state's land conservation program and called on the Department of Natural Resources to begin selling off property. The funding cut and a directive to put public land on the auction block drew strong protests from Democrats on the Joint Finance Committee, but both have been done before. The land-sale proposal calls for ...

  • 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 ...

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