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  • Food drive hauls in food for pantries

    Food for Freedom " netted 130,311 pounds of food that will be dispersed to area food pantries in Fond du Lac, Winnebago, Outagamie, Brown and Sheboygan counties. The patriotic-themed food drive began on Saturday at Fond du Lac High School and ended Sunday. "Food for Freedom" was the brainchild of 16-year-old Danny Loomans, a junior at Fond du Lac High School, who sought to break ...

  • Ordinary people extraordinary heroes remembered on Memorial Day

    Lena -- The grass has grown green around Nichole Frye's black granite grave marker. The soft music of wind chimes drifts through the tiny cemetery, next to a cornfield not yet plowed. On the cold February day she was buried in 2004, plywood was laid across the muddy, snowy ground for her family, friends and neighbors to stand on. They listened to taps sounded by two Lena High School ...

  • Wis. killer ordered back to mental health facility

    LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) -- A man convicted of killing three people at a Wisconsin church nearly 30 years ago has been ordered back to a state mental health facility after an appeals court confirmed that he violated conditions of his ...

  • Expect a soggy Memorial Day

    Showers and thunderstorms could wash out Memorial Day parades and picnics on Monday. Thunderstorms are likely across most of southeastern Wisconsin Monday and Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. A strong warm front is expected to pass across southern Wisconsin on Monday ahead of a low pressure system sweeping in to the area from the Great Plains. There is a chance for ...

  • Greenfield girl lives on through organ donations after accident

    Mel Mickey had faced this once before. The words: "No hope." The sliver of time to make a decision. Nineteen years ago it was his daughter, Colleen Mickey, who died in a car accident. Age 19. This time, it was his granddaughter, Brittany Barnstable, hit by a car riding her bike. Age 15. No hope, the doctors said. He called his daughter, Michelle Barnstable, who was already racing ...

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Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading

Joel and Ethan Coen have a special affinity for characters who are dumber than they seem, which is matched only by their affinity for characters who are precisely as dumb as they seem. Burn After Reading, their relentlessly ridiculous screwball follow-up to No Count ... ...

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  • Wis. man convicted of ordering dog attack on teen

    FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) -- A Campbellsport man has been convicted of tying a teenager upside-down and ordering his dog to attack because the man thought the teen was burglarizing his ...

  • Wisconsin defendants waiting longer for sentencing

    RACINE, Wis.-Wisconsin defendants waiting to be sentenced increasingly have to endure delays of several weeks before they learn their sentences. Corrections officials cite two reasons for the delays-too few probation agents to conduct pre-sentence investigation reports, and stricter requirements in the reports that take longer to complete. But defense attorneys say the delays can hurt defendants ...

  • Fourth Wisconsin Powerball ticket in two weeks hits jackpot

    MADISON, Wis.-For the fourth time in just over a week, a Powerball player in Wisconsin has hit a million-dollar jackpot. Lottery officials say the latest winning ticket was sold in Reedsburg, which is in Sauk County. The ticket matched five of the regular winning numbers in Saturday's drawing. The win comes about a week after three other tickets worth $1 million were sold in Antigo, Fremont ...

  • Wisconsin is third in the U.S. in alcohol-related boating deaths

    Wisconsin had the nation's third-highest number of alcohol-related boating deaths last year, the same year a legislative bill to stiffen penalties on drunken boaters went nowhere. Intoxicated boating killed eight people in the state last year, ranking Wisconsin behind only New York and Florida. In comparison Minnesota and Michigan, which also provide plenty of boating opportunities, ...

  • MLB Pittsburgh 5 Milwaukee 4

    Pedro Alvarez delivered a key two-run double and Pittsburgh's bullpen strung together four shutout innings Sunday, boosting the Pirates over Milwaukee 5-4. Leading 2-0 in the third, the Pirates double the advantage when Alvarez smoked a 1-0 pitch into the right-field corner, chasing ...

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