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  • Wisconsin has seen six EF5 tornadoes

    EF5 tornadoes like the one that devastated Oklahoma this week are rare in Wisconsin. Only six tornadoes in Wisconsin dating back to the late 1800s are considered EF5, according to the National Weather Service in Sullivan. The National Weather Service began officially rating the severity of tornadoes in 1982. Tornadoes from 1950 to 1981 were rated by a commercial business contracted by the ...

  • Packers o-linemen shift into new positions

    Green Bay - A month ago the news was big but the timing was right. The Green Bay Packers staff told the offensive line that everyone except center Evan Dietrich-Smith would begin the offseason playing a new position. After four weeks of work behind the scenes, that change was unveiled to the media and fans Tuesday during organized team activities. "Yeah it's going to be tough," ...

  • Heavy Urban Rescue Team trains for disasters

    MILWAUKEE - Firefighters and other first responders are still digging through tons of rubble. It's an exhausting and dangerous job. Timing is everything for the Heavy Urban Rescue Team. Captain Troy Klemstein knows exactly what the search and rescue teams are up against in Moore, Oklahoma. He shows the extremely sensitive listening devices teams are using to hear people buried in rubble . ...

  • Parking police seek automated system to write tickets

    MILWAUKEE - Parking checkers made the city of Milwaukee $22.1 million last year from parking tickets, though the city agency in charge of parking enforcement thinks it can do better. Public documents obtained by the I-TEAM show the city lamenting over declining revenue from parking tickets. One document reads, "...since 2010, overall on-street parking revenues have fallen." But the ...

  • Wheatland reacts to Oklahoma tornado

    Most people would drive through the town of Wheatland in Kenosha County and see the American Dream. But in January of 2008, it was a nightmare when a tornado ripped through the ...

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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

The unwieldy title of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Sidney Lumet's relentless grinder of a melodramatic thriller, comes from an Irish blessing that sounds more like a curse: may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead. ... ...

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  • Oakland Raiders sign former Packers DB Charles Woodson

    Charles Woodson: 'At this point, I want to play football' OAKLAND - The Oakland Raiders have announced they have signed former Packers player Charles Woodson. "The Oakland Raiders have signed free agent defensive back Charles Woodson," the team tweeted Tuesday ...

  • Sports Minute Here is the latest Wisconsin sports news from The Associated Press

    The beginning of organized team activities was the first team that nearly every Green Bay Packers player was on the field together.Head coach Mike McCarthy admitted in his press conference the first ...

  • Wisconsin Lutheran plans five-story residence hall

    Faced with increased enrollment, Wisconsin Lutheran College plans to build a five-story residence hall for around 200 students on Milwaukee's far west side. The building is planned for the south side of the 8900 block of W. Wisconsin Ave., where the college owns four apartment buildings that house 48 students. Those buildings would be demolished to make way for the new residence hall, said ...

  • Search for Okla. tornado survivors nearly complete

    MOORE, Okla. (AP) Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children. Scientists concluded the storm was a rare and extraordinarily powerful type of twister known as an EF5, ranking it at ...

  • Brookfield church sending crew to tornado scene

    BROOKFIELD - A team from Elmbrook Church in Brookfield is preparing to help with the Oklahoma disaster area this weekend. They had originally planned to head to Texas for relief work when the storm hit. "[They] stopped us and said do not come Sunday. Storms are going to going through that area," says team leader Mary Ann Lee. The group from Wisconsin would have arrived in Oklahoma ...

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