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  • Wauwatosa couple closer to dream of skateboard park as memory of son

    WAUWATOSA - A couple from Wauwatosa is closer to having a skateboard park built as a lasting memory of their son. Mike and Judy Doyle have lived with the pain of losing a son, ...

  • Family of Jessica Benson talks about alleged bank robbery disapperance

    Vigil for missing college student MILWAUKEE - Her family believed she was the victim of a crime. Now, police believe she is a suspect in a crime. Investigators believe Jessica benson and her boyfriend helped rob a bank, and are now on the run. Benson disappeared days before her graduation from college, days after the bank where she worked was robbed. Her family can't believe Benson ...

  • Keeping our kids safe when severe weather strikes at summer camp

    MENOMONEE FALLS - School is out and that can mean only one thing--Summer is in full swing! At Tri-County YMCA in Menomonee Falls, kids are running and playing at day camp. Regional Director and camp counseler Chris Przedpelski explains, "Whether they are into science, art, cooking, sports--there is something for everyone." But Przedpelski knows that the weather can change everything ...

  • Three-car crash leads to freeway ramp closure in Waukesha County

    BROOKFIELD - Drivers going west on I-94 had to encounter a ramp closure Tuesday night after a three-vehicle crash. It happened at about 9:10 p.m. Tuesday at the exit ramp from I-94 westbound to Barker Road. According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, injuries were minor. The freeway was re-opened by 10:00 ...

  • Weather service forecasts warmer sunny Wednesday for Milwaukee

    After another cool night Milwaukee will enjoy a warmup Wednesday with a high temperature of 73 degrees and sunny skies, according to the National Weather Service in Sullivan. The high temperature Tuesday recorded at Mitchell International Airport was only 64 degrees, 12 degrees cooler than the normal high of 76 for June 18. A low temperature of 51 is expected for tonight, 7 degrees cooler than ...

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Ghost World [DVD]

Ghost World [DVD]

Ghost World is an often funny, often painful portrait of the abyss that is postadolescence. In the void between high school graduation and full adulthood, we find Enid (Thora Birch) and her best friend Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), bound together by their mutual misanthropy and desire not to go with the crowd, but still struggling to define themselves in a bland, commercialized world that ... ...

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  • Wisconsin Bear Attack Leaves Man In Hospital

    SHELL LAKE, Wis. -- A man who was attacked by a black bear outside a cabin in northwestern Wisconsin is recovering at a hospital. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the man was attacked in his yard near Shell Lake on Monday night. DNR carnivore specialist David MacFarland says the man's dog apparently initiated contact with the bear. MacFarland says the man's brother ...

  • Chilling testimony in trial with teen accused of murdering elderly woman

    SHEBOYGAN - Jurors heard a 14-year-old boy on trial describe the murder of his friend’s great grandmother. Special agents from the Wisconsin Department of Justice interviewed Nathan Paape just days after 78-year-old Barbara Olson was found dead. Sheboygan County District Attorney Joe DeCecco played a recording of that interrogation to wrap up the trial's second day. "He ...

  • Wisconsin Veterans museum telling history of wars one story at a time

    Madison -- Adam Holton's memories of Iraq are still fresh, even though it's been nine years since he served as commander of a Marine Reserves company. He vividly remembers the days during Golf Company's 2004-'05 Iraq deployment when five of his Marines were mortally wounded, and he recalls the tedium and excitement of living in a war zone. Holton wanted his memories, and ...

  • ME Slain Wis. woman struck many times

    SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) -- A medical examiner has testified that a slain 78-year-old Wisconsin woman was struck at least 27 times with sharp and blunt ...

  • Lawmakers pass venture capital bill

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- State lawmakers have approved legislation that would invest millions of dollars in public money in Wisconsin startups despite criticism that the investment only targets limited industries. The venture capital program created under the bipartisan proposal would contain $25 million from the state and at least $50 million in private money. The investment will go to qualified ...

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