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  • 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 ...

  • New rent-to-own regulation Well have to see GOP leader says

    provision to lessen regulation of rent-to-own stores hangs uncertainly in the balance of negotiations taking place Thursday morning between Republican lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) acknowledged Thursday that the fate of the proposal by Gov. Scott Walker is unclear as the Legislature's budget committee prepares to take up the issue later in ...

  • Ex-Walker aide behind bars for 2nd OWI

    Twenty-five-year-old Nicole Tieman pleaded guilty to her second OWI offense Wednesday. She has been booked into the Milwaukee County Correctional Facility in ...

  • Todays Coming Home Google doodle created by Wisconsin teen

    SPARTA, Wis.-A Wisconsin teen is the winner of Doodle 4 Google's national contest with her art called "Coming Home." Google says millions of votes were cast on 130,000 submissions in its annual contest to design the logo on Google's home page. Sabrina Brady is a senior at Sparta High School. Brady says she created the art in honor of the day her Dad returned home from Iraq ...

  • Milwaukee area foreclosures continued to slip in March

    The national foreclosure rate was 2.84 percent in March, down from 3.49 percent in March 2012. Milwaukee-area foreclosures decreased 0.74 percentage points in March, the same decrease of the previous month, for a rate of 1.86 percent, according to CoreLogic. The area's foreclosure rates have been slowly but steadily declining. The rate in March 2012 was 2.6 percent. The Milwaukee, Waukesha ...

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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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  • Thousands without power in Racine County

    RACINE - We Energies says that about 2,400 customers have lost power in Racine after an outage. The outage happened at about 9:20 a.m. Spokesman Brian Manthey tells 620WTMJ's Michelle Richards that crews are on the scene of the outage to try and get people back online. He said heavy winds could be a factor in the ...

  • Worker seriously injured after Milwaukee industrial accident

    MILWAUKEE - A worker has gone to a hospital with what are described as extremely serious injuries after an industrial accident on the city's north side. The Milwaukee Fire Department tells TODAY'S TMJ4 the accident happened at about 7:45 a.m. Thursday on the 7000 block of North Teutonia Avenue. A TODAY'S TMJ4 photojournalist says the factory involved ...

  • Wis. lawmakers to consider rent-to-own budget plan

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Legislature's budget committee is set to decide whether to exempt rent-to-own stores from Wisconsin's consumer protection laws. Rent-to-own businesses offer customers a chance to rent items without a credit check. Customers can exit and rejoin their contracts with an option to buy the items when they fulfill the terms. Critics contend the businesses prey on ...

  • Report Former Walker aide begins jail term for drunk driving

    Click here for 620WTMJ's "Under the Influence" section on drunk driving cases MILWAUKEE - According to a published report, an aide to Gov. Scott Walker's campaign who resigned Friday has begun a jail sentence for drunk ...

  • Judge overturns Wisconsin mans rape conviction

    OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin man who has spent two decades in prison for rape has had his conviction overturned. Fifty-three-year-old Joseph Frey has been serving a 102-year sentence for an attack on a University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh student. The woman was sexually assaulted at knifepoint after her apartment was broken into in 1991. Judge Daniel Bissett overturned Frey's conviction ...

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