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  • Chicago rap stars visit canceled

    MILWAUKEE - Management at the venue 618 Live on Water confirmed late Thursday that controversial rapper Keith "Chief Keef" Cozart would not be performing as part of a concert scheduled to take place Saturday night. Nick Murado said discussions about canceling Cozart's performance began earlier this week. By Tuesday, Murado said, a decision was made that "Chief Keef" ...

  • Couple accused of hoarding horses appears in court

    KENOSHA - A couple from Pleasant Prairie accused of animal cruelty and neglect will wait three more weeks before the start of their preliminary hearing. Paula and David White still have not secured a lawyer. The last veterinarian that last saw the horses back in 2009 said the condition the horses were found in last month were not the way he last saw them. He believes this is a case of animal ...

  • Gov. Walkers Iowa trip raises questions of a presidential run

    Wisconsin's Republican governor, Scott Walker, is introducing himself to Iowa Republicans as would-be presidential candidates often do -- as one of their ...

  • Bridge over I-5 collapses in Wash. people vehicles in water

    It was shortly after 7 p.m. when Dan Sligh and his wife Sally were near the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River. The semi-truck ahead on the far right seemed too wide for the bridge span, and Sligh told his wife so."We started slowing down, and about that same time another semi-truck came up on the left side," he told KIRO 7. "It almost looked like he pinned that truck over ...

  • In bipartisan vote lawmakers recommend UW System tuition freeze

    Madison - The Legislature's budget committee in a bipartisan vote Thursday froze tuition and tax dollars for the University of Wisconsin System over the next two years and delayed new flexibilities promised in the last state budget, leaving public universities to fund several new initiatives from recently discovered cash reserves that triggered a firestorm at the Capitol. The tuition ...

Movie Review

Cop Land

I've heard too many people describing James Mangold's "Cop Land" as a movie about one good sheriff taking on a precinct of corrupt cops. Yes, that is part of the story, but it's not what the film is about. The good cop/bad cop is just the framework the movie uses to tell a tale of disillusionment, loss, and one man's harsh realization that what he looked up to all his life was wrong. The he ... ...

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  • Victim who died in Dane County crash identified as Maryland woman

    A woman killed in a two-vehicle crash in Dane County was identified by the medical examiner's office Thursday as Hannah Marie LeBlanc, 29, of Severna Park, Md. LeBlanc was a passenger in a Toyota Prius that collided with a Ford Ranger shortly before 5 p.m., Sunday at County Highway BB and State Highway 73, in the Town of Deerfield, according to the Dane County Sheriff's Office. The ...

  • Man who killed three must remain in mental health facility court says

    A state appeals court has decided that a man who killed three people at an Onalaska church almost three decades ago should remain at a mental health facility, the La Crosse Tribune reports. To read more, ...

  • State panel pulls Scott Walkers rent-to-own plan from budget

    Madison -- Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to lessen regulation of rent-to-own stores was yanked from his budget bill Thursday in a bipartisan vote by the Legislature's budget committee. After an exhausting day stretching from the morning into the night, the Joint Finance Committee voted 10-6 to remove the provision from the 2013-'15 budget bill, with all of the panel's six GOP ...

  • Scott Walker speaks in Iowa fueling speculation of presidential hopes

    West Des Moines, Iowa -- Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday took his stump speech to the state that will kick off the 2016 presidential nominating season, telling Iowa conservatives that Republicans need to be more optimistic, relevant and courageous. He mixed some of his state budget agenda with national themes in his 40-minute speech and reminded the attendees of the $75-per-person GOP fundraiser ...

  • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel On TVRadio column

    The critical barometer of local ratings success is the 10 p.m. newscast, which WISN won handily with an 8.9 rating, ahead of second-place WTMJ-TV (Channel 4), which had a 6 rating. It is the second consecutive sweeps win in the time period by WISN. "This is the station's widest lead" at 10 p.m. in "Milwaukee ratings history," WISN trumpeted in a press release. It ...

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