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  • Missing teenager from Milwaukee

    MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee Police say they're searching for a teenager who went missing Monday night. According to a police spokesman, Deavan Harroway was last seen by her mother at 7:00 p.m. Monday evening, and reported missing three hours later. Police ask you to call them at ...

  • Teen killed in Milwaukee shooting IDd by police

    16-year-old boy who was shot and killed earlier this week in Milwaukee was identified Tuesday by police as Marvin J. Cottrell. The teen was shot "during a disturbance" at 3:30 a.m. Monday outside an apartment building in the 2500 block of West Glendale Avenue, Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer said. Stanmeyer said the investigation is continuing and no suspects are in custody. Module type ...

  • County officials warn legislators about cutting child support enforcement

    Madison -- As state lawmakers consider cutting local child support enforcement by 25% next year, county officials say this ongoing trend is already taking the pressure off deadbeat parents and endangering millions of dollars in additional federal money. Members of the Legislature's powerful Joint Finance Committee are set Tuesday ...

  • Dalys Pen Shop to close at Grand Avenue

    Daly's Pen Shop, a downtown Milwaukee fixture since 1924, will close its location in the Shops of Grand Avenue at the end of the year. The firm, which sells fine writing instruments and describes itself as the country's oldest pen store, is not going out of business. Daly's opened a second location, at 7632 W. Burleigh St., about a year ago. It will continue there and with its ...

  • Wis. GAB seeks absentee voting rule changes

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin election officials have decided to ask the Legislature to make a number of changes to Wisconsin's absentee voting ...

Movie Review

Proof of Life

In Taylor Hackford's Proof of Life, Russell Crowe gets to keep his native Australian accent as Terry Thorne, an ex-soldier-turned-hostage-negotiator whose expertise is K&R (kidnapping and ransom). He deals mainly with extracting businessmen and politicians who are snatched by extremist groups in the farthest reaches of the world--Russia, southeast Asia, South America. He is calm, collected ... ...

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  • Kohler ordered to pay $9.6 million in patent suit

    KOHLER, Wis. (AP) - The Kohler Co. has been ordered in federal court to pay $9.6 million to a Massachusetts manufacturer for infringing on two of its patents for components that reduce exhaust emissions in marine ...

  • The Main Street America Group Expands Commercial Products into Wisconsin

    The Main Street America Group has introduced its commercial product line, featuring its Main Line Business Owners Policy (Main Line BOP), to independent agents who represent the super regional property/casualty insurance carrier's Austin Mutual Insurance Co. throughout the state of Wisconsin. In addition to Main Line BOP, a property and liability product for small business owners that ...

  • Growers making up for lost time in planting corn

    FILE PHOTO: A tractor with cultivator sits idle after being delayed by wet weather earlier this month preventing central Illinois farmers from starting their spring planting of corn crops Monday, May 13, 2013 in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth ...

  • Chippewa Falls police investigate sex offenders death

    The Chippewa Herald reports. Christopher R. Vought, 27, was found dead at 7:25 p.m. Saturday at an unspecified location in Chippewa Falls after a woman called police requesting a welfare check. Police did not give more details about Vought's death, saying only that officers are investigating. Module type name is JSO Mod-Script ...

  • Boston Store parent Bon-Ton files claim against Sheboygan

    The parent company of Boston Store has filed a claim against the City of Sheboygan saying that water runoff from a city-owned parking lot has caused $400,000 in damage, according to ...

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