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Guides lead exploration of Wisconsins great outdoors
Impressed with knowledge Dan and Shirley Heger, retirees from Pewaukee who now live in Stitzer, have gone on a half dozen field trips, including trumpeter swan banding, searching for elk calves and hiking through barrens. The hiking trip was a revelation for Dan Heger, who was surprised to learn there are desert cacti native to Wisconsin. They're also going on trips to the Beaver Creek ...
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Green Bay coach Wardle to keep job after probe
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- University of Wisconsin-Green Bay men's basketball coach Brian Wardle will keep his job after an independent review largely cleared him of allegations that he mistreated his players, university officials said Friday. At least one player had accused Wardle of using vulgar and obscene language, and a second player told officials Wardle forced him to work out ...
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Milwaukee police chief blasts Scott Walker Wisconsin Legislature
Police Chief Edward Flynn on Friday blasted Gov. Scott Walker for being anti-urban and the Legislature's budget committee for "gratuitous" decisions that killed a community policing grant for his department and set in motion the departure of the state crime lab from Milwaukee. In an expansive interview with the Journal Sentinel in a Third Ward coffee shop that touched on ...
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Tap your way to a better life
Operation Emotional Freedom MILWAUKEE - The videos are all over the Internet - instructions on how to tap your way to a better life! It's called "Emotional Freedom Techniques" - or EFT for short. The videos featuring people lighting tapping their foreheads, faces, wrists and other parts of their bodies. Sophia Cayer, is an "EFT Founding Master" and wrote a book about ...
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Chief Keefs rap sheet too hot for Milwaukee club
MILWAUKEE - The reputation of Chicago rapper Keith "Chief Keef" Kozart caught up with him earlier in the week, costing the performer a gig ...
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Police say Thong Cape Scooter Man didnt break law
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A man known to ride through Madison on a scooter -- dressed in thong underwear and a cape -- may be disturbing to ...
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Dead Pa. babys dad believes in divine healing
FILE - This undated file photo combination provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Herbert and Catherine Schaible. At a bail hearing Friday, May 24, 2013, a Philadelphia judge ordered the couple, who believe in faith healing over medicine, be held without bail on third-degree murder charges in the April death of their 8-month-old son, Brandon. They previously had been convicted of ...
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Fond du Lac vets heroism may yield nations highest military honor
World War II paratrooper units were light on their feet - they carried everything on their backs and didn't travel in armored vehicles. So when James "Maggie" Megellas saw the German Mark V Panther tank bearing down on his platoon in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge, he stuck his hands into his pockets and pulled out two grenades. Then he ran toward the deadly machine whose ...
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Wisconsin Walkers Iowa trip adds fuel to rumors of presidential bid
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- Gov. Scott Walker this week 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 Thursday night and reminded the attendees of the $75-per-person ...
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Kids busted throwing balloons from car
LANCASTER, Wis. (AP) -- Two 18-year-olds have been arrested for tossing water balloons from a car, causing damage to at least three other ...
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Boaters warned to watch for dredging operation on Fox River
Boaters on the Fox River this season were warned by officials in Brown County Friday to use caution while dredging operations on the river are being conducted, according to ...
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Raw milk trial in hands of jury
Baraboo -- Jurors in the criminal trial of Vernon Hershberger are set to begin their deliberations tonight on charges that he operated an unlicensed retail store -- that sold raw milk and other products -- from a farm in Loganville. The 12-member jury has indicated it wants to stay as long as necessary this evening and finish the trial that began Monday in Sauk County Circuit Court and involved ...
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2 arrested for tossing water balloons at cars
The water balloons caused cracked windshields on three vehicles. Authorities say anyone else whose vehicle was hit by water balloons in the area around midday Tuesday should call the sheriff's ...
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Wisconsin Walker expects compromise on voucher school plan
MADISON, Wis. -- Republican Gov. Scott Walker says he expects GOP leaders will reach some sort of compromise on a contentious section of his budget that would expand private school vouchers next week. The voucher program subsidizes students' private school tuition. It's currently in effect in Milwaukee and Racine. Walker's budget would expand the program to large districts with ...
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100s of bridges in the state are considered structurally deficient
I-5 bridge collapse survivor: 'You hold on' MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin Department of Transportation is keeping a close eye on 93 bridges in Milwaukee County and 30 in Waukesha County. The bridges on this list are deemed structurally deficient due to federal highway standards. "If they get to where they are structurally deficient", said WisDOT southeast region deputy director, ...
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Former Bucks guard Flynn Robinson dies at 72
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Flynn Robinson, the former NBA guard who played on the Los Angeles Lakers' 1971-72 championship team, has died after a two-year fight with cancer. He was 72. Flynn's wife, Nancy Pitts-Robinson, told the Lakers he died Thursday at Keck Hospital in Los Angeles. Called "Mr. Instant Point" by late Lakers broadcaster Chick Hearn, the 6-foot-1 Robinson ...
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Wis. gov didnt know of ex-aides drunken driving
. Twenty-five-year old Nicole Tieman pleaded guilty to her second OWI offense in Milwaukee on Wednesday and was sentenced to 20 days in jail. She had already been convicted in March of operating with a prohibited alcohol content in Waukesha County. Both incidents occurred within days of each other in June 2011, long before she joined Walker's campaign earlier this year. She abruptly ...
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Gorzelanny activated Burgos goes on DL
Milwaukee Brewers Hiram Burgos delivers a pitch, during the first inning of their spring training game against the Los Angeles Angels, Saturday, March 2, 2013, at the Maryvale Baseball Park in Phoenix.(Photo/Roy Dabner) ORG XMIT: ...
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Wauwatosa may be getting a new beer garden
WAUWATOSA - A new beer garden could open in Wauwatosa by July. The non-profit group, Friends of Hoyt Park & Pool, is seeking the city's approval for a permit to operate a seasonal beer garden. Mary Pluta say's some neighbors have voiced concerns about possible noise from music and crowds. The group has agreed to limited hours for music because of those concerns. Pluta says the ...
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GOP lawmakers plan calls for deeper tax cut elimination of some credits
Madison -- The state would more than double the cut in income tax rates proposed by Gov. Scott Walker, cutting rates by an additional $450 million over two years and eliminating a score of seldom-used credits, under an overhaul of the tax system offered by a key Republican lawmaker. The tax package to be formally unveiled Tuesday would come on top of the $343 million tax cut already proposed by ...
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Milwaukee Brewers giving out Ryan Braun bobblehead Sunday
Milwaukee Brewers Ryan Braun carefully watches his pitches getting two walks, this one in the 4th inning during the MLB baseball game between the Milwaukee Brewers and San Francisco Giants at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Journal Sentinel photo by RICK WOOD/ ...
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Local students react to Boy Scouts decision to allow in openly gay scouts
, and many are happy about it. Nick Fetting is a junior at Whitefish Bay High School working on becoming an Eagle Scout. He would like to see other teens learning in the scouts like he has, even if they are openly gay. Gay scouts have been banned from the century old organization for 22 years. "It’s about time," Fetting says. "There's not any one reason they ...
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UW students will get a break after discovery of reserve fund
MADISON - UW students will finally get a break after lawmakers found out the UW-System had hundreds of millions of dollars stashed away. Lawmakers told the UW-System they have to use the reserves and can't raise tuition for at least two years, a break students say was a long time coming. "I think that's good. I am completely happy with that," said UW Milwaukee Junior Liz ...
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Two teens accused of drive-by water balloon tossing
Two Grant County teenagers are facing charges of criminal damage to property and recklessly endangering safety accusing them of tossing more than 80 water balloons from a moving car at other vehicles and pedestrians, the sheriff's department said Friday. The drive-by ballooning started shortly before 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, when the sheriff's department began receiving calls reporting ...
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