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  • Tornadoes level homes in Okla. 21 injured

    SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) -- One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park near Oklahoma City into splinters and rubble and sent frightened residents along a 100-mile corridor scurrying for ...

  • Nonprofit focuses on Milwaukees Havenwoods neighborhood

    Havenwoods Economic Development Corp., a nonprofit agency focused on improving the quality of life in the northwest Milwaukee neighborhood. Woodring, the company's product and quality control agent, said he would be willing to work with the organization, possibly joining a manufacturing roundtable discussion or training young people for technical careers. "If this is better for the ...

  • Tornado watch issued after severe thunderstorm moves into Wisconsin

    A severe thunderstorm moving into the state from northern Illinois has prompted forecasters to issue a tornado watch. The thunderstorm is heading north from near the Rockford, Ill., airport and is expected to hit south central Wisconsin shortly after 9 p.m. The storm has damaged roofs and trees with 60 mph wind gusts in northern Illinois, said Ed Townsend, a National Weather Service ...

  • Summerfest CEO Don Smileys compensation rises $114000

    If you thought Summerfest CEO Don Smiley was already being paid like a rock star, wait until you see the latest set of numbers. Officials with Milwaukee World Festival just released data for 2012, and Smiley's total package climbed to $886,185 - an increase of $114,000 over the previous year. Smiley bolstered his bottom line last year by converting more than seven years of unused vacation ...

  • Tornadoes Level Homes in Okla. Hit Other States

    One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park near Oklahoma City into splinters and rubble and sent frightened residents along a 100-mile corridor scurrying for shelter. The tornadoes that touched down in Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa were part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota. At least four ...

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The Pledge

Sean Penn's The Pledge is about a man named Jerry Black who is absolutely sure that he is right about something, but is never able to prove it. There is a kind of terrible grandeur to Penn's vision of Jerry because Penn ensures that we see he is right, but because he is never able to convince anyone around him, he is literally driven to madness. The last five minutes of the film feature th ... ...

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  • Milwaukee bra ban overturned

    Holler House Tavern was decorated with hundreds of bras left by female patrons for nearly half a century, until a Milwaukee, Wisc., city inspector decided that the sartorial decor constituted a fire hazard. "We've had bras hanging here for 45 years. It's been a charm of the place," Holler House Tavern owner Marcy Skowronski, ...

  • Tornado levels homes in Oklahoma City trailer park

    People survey damage from a tornado that hit Edmond, Okla., on Sunday, May 19, 2013. A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged roofs and structures near Oklahoma City and kicked up debris in Wichita, ...

  • Man sued by his former lawyer then alleges malpractice by lawyer

    What started as a routine legal matter has turned into a nightmarish and costly courthouse roller coaster for Mark Halbman, a Menomonee Falls man who is still in court 13 years after injuring his neck in a traffic accident. Halbman, 53, has gone from being a client of attorney Mitchell Barrock - who initially won an impressive six-figure jury award for his client - to becoming a defendant in a ...

  • West Allis police arrest man in womans death

    WEST ALLIS -- West Allis police have arrested a 48-year-old man in the death of a 63-year-old woman who was found in a hallway of her apartment ...

  • Severe storms rumble across eastern Minn. western Wis.

    MINNEAPOLIS - Skies turned dark and the rain came down in torrents as severe storms rumbled across eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. The storms sparked numerous severe thunderstorm warnings and some tornado warnings as they advanced from south to north Sunday, though no confirmed touchdowns. There were scattered reports of power outages, downed lines and tree damage across the region as ...

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