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  • Abele Barrett Walker come together for business opening in Milwaukee

    MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele came together to help break ground on a new business center in the city. They made sure to put politics aside at the opening of Data Holdings, on North 31st Street and West Highland Avenue. "Jobs aren't Republican or Democratic jobs, they're just jobs," ...

  • Melvin Not a believer in immediate small changes but Brewers performance must change

    iContribute: Share your Brewers fan photos! MILWAUKEE - "We've got to start playing better baseball," said Milwaukee Brewers general manager Doug Melvin on 620WTMJ's "Wisconsin's Morning News." That demand seems obvious ...

  • Reuters shows schools in Wisconsin U.S. near potentially explosive facilities

    The Austin Powder Company, which was listed as an ammonium nitrate storage facility in 2012, is within a mile of Pleasant View Elementary School in Franklin, according to the Reuters news agency. Three schools are within a mile of Royster Clark Inc. in Madison, according to Reuters. The news service published an interactive map Thursday of chemical stockpiles that it says are like the one in ...

  • Judge overturns mans 1994 conviction in UW-Oshkosh rape

    Oshkosh -- A Wisconsin man who spent two decades in prison for rape has had his conviction overturned. Joseph Frey, 53, received a 102-year sentence in 1994 for an attack three years earlier on a University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh student. The woman was sexually assaulted at knifepoint after her apartment was broken into. On Wednesday, Winnebago County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Bissett ...

  • Wisconsin man accused of stealing from the dead

    the Chippewa Herald reports . Seth R. Furgason was charged this week with armed burglary, theft and possessing a firearm by a felon. Furgason's girlfriend told investigators that he was involved in similar burglaries in two other counties. The girlfriend said she drove Furgason to the crime scenes. According to the criminal complaint: A semiautomatic handgun and boxes of baseball cards ...

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The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

You can immediately see why Jennifer Lawrence was cast as Katniss Everdeen, the stoic, hardy 16-year-old heroine of The Hunger Games. Lawrences Oscar-nominated break-out performance was playing Ree Dolly, the resilient and determined teenage daughter of a missing meth dealer ... ...

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  • Worker seriously injured after getting trapped in cement mixer

    A worker is in critical condition after getting trapped in a cement mixing machine Thursday morning, the Milwaukee Fire Department said. Battalion 2 received a call at 7:48 a.m. about a person with an arm caught in a machine at Sic Lazaro on N. Teutonia Avenue, but while on the way, responders learned an entire person was trapped, Battalion Chief Raymond Groth said. The fire department then ...

  • Hundreds of thousands hit state roads this weekend

    The travel organization AAA estimates 627,000 people are expected to travel by land during the weekend in Wisconsin and another 33,000 by air. Travel is expected to be down about 1.6 percent from last ...

  • Wisconsin Bill Would Require $50 Tobacco Use Fee for Health Insurance

    Wisconsin state workers who smoke would have to pay $50 more per month for health insurance under a Gov. Scott Walker proposal that has won approval by the Legislature’s budget committee. The Joint Finance Committee on voted 13-3 to approve the fee. Twelve other states currently impose similar fees but anti-smoking groups including the American Cancer Society and the American Lung ...

  • Meet the Wisconsin teen behind todays Doodle 4 Google

    Google swapped out its traditional logo today for an emotional piece of art. The drawing, part of the company's annual Doodle 4 Google competition, shows a daughter racing into the arms of her soldier father. It's poignant, smart, and did not come from Google's team of professional artists. This one came from a ...

  • Madison police stop burglary in progress at Bridges Golf Course

    Madison police interrupted an early morning burglary attempt Thursday at a golf course and restaurant, causing a would-be burglar to flee empty-handed, according to a police news release. An alarm activated about 1:20 a.m. Thursday at the Bridges Golf Course & Restaurant, 2702 Shopko Drive, and when officers arrived, they found a club house door pried open. Nothing was found to be ...

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