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Game Blog Brewers vs. St. Louis Cardinals
and answer some of your questions during every Brewers game this season. Tonight, RHP Wily Peralta (3-3, 5.40) is on the mound for Milwaukee vs. St. Louis LHP Jaime Garcia (4-2, 2.88). Game time for the first game of the three-game series with the Cardinals is 7:15 p.m. at Busch Stadium. Fans can discuss the game among themselves by logging in ...
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Wisconsin Church Builds 60-Ft Cross to Help Combat Culture War
The New Life Cross project, pictured here during Phase 1 of construction in May 2013. It was being built by the New Life Assembly of God of Janesville, ...
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Milwaukee backs off banning bra display at historic bowling alley and bar
Marcy Skowronski, 87, looks through a pile of bras Friday, May 17, 2013, in Milwaukee that used to hang from the ceiling of her bar, Holler House. The city told her recently they were a fire hazard and ordered them to be taken down but later backed down. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger) MILWAUKEE -- A historic Milwaukee bowling alley and bar almost went without the appropriate support after a city ...
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signs bill creating alternative to layoffs
MADISON, Wis. -- Gov. Scott Walker on Friday signed into law a bill creating a program that gives employers an alternative to laying off employees when work slows. Under the program, instead of laying off a few workers, hours for groups of employees would be reduced. Those affected could collect unemployment, paid for by the federal government. The employer would also be required to maintain ...
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Wisconsin Bipartisan bill requires annual audit at troubled jobs agency
MADISON, Wis. -- A bill introduced by a bipartisan group of lawmakers would require annual audits at Gov. Scott Walker's troubled quasi-public jobs agency, as well as put limits on terms that board members appointed by the governor serve. The bills introduced on Thursday come as the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. faces mounting criticism over its operations during its first two ...
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Motorcyclist injured in New Berlin crash
A Metro-North commuter train derailed during rush hour Friday evening in southwestern Connecticut, police said. The train derailed along the system's New Haven line. Aerial footage from News 12 Connecticut showed the train stopped and seemingly ...
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Low water levels in Lake Michigan cause problems for boaters
The record heat and drought from last year pushed Lake Michigan to its lowest level on record. Some would think the recent rain would start to make up the difference, but that's not ...
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MPS leader Barbara Horton had passion for helping children
Barbara Horton talked about all children in Milwaukee as if they were her own. Or everyone's. They were always "our babies." And they needed help: education, support, mentoring, a chance to pursue a promising future. The desire to improve the institutions in Milwaukee responsible for offering those supports was what drove Horton, a prominent education leader in public and ...
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Swan Lake enchants and delights Milwaukee
Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. "Swan Lake" is the classic love story of Odette and Prince Siegfried, and of the conniving Count von Rothbart who tries to tear them apart to steal the ...
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St. Paul family mourns loss of cabin in Wisconsin wildfire
The Preiner family cabin on Rock Lake in northwestern Wisconsin burns during a wildfire earlier this week. (AP Photo/The Duluth News-Tribune, Clint Austin) Anna Preiner saw the picture of the burning cabin on the Duluth News Tribune website Wednesday morning, and it made her cry. The cabin on Rock Lake in Wisconsin's southern Douglas County was the one Preiner and her husband, Matt, built ...
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Wisconsin Cost of Scott Walkers Medicaid plan increases
MADISON, Wis. -- The cost of Gov. Scott Walker's plan to reject federally funded Medicaid expansion and instead tighten income eligibility for the program has gone up. A new estimate from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau says the cost of Walker's medical assistance proposal is $73.5 million more than when he released it in February. Of that, $52 million is directly related ...
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Filling up the gas tank a bit painful right now
For the last few weeks, gas prices have hovered just below the $4 mark. People here are paying $3.95 a gallon, but we're now looking ahead to the summer months when many of you will be hitting the roads for ...
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Graeme Zielinski announces he is leaving the Democratic Party of Wisconsin
MADISON - Graeme Zielinski announced Friday he will be leaving the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Here released a statement with the news ...
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Wis. surgeon indicted on health care fraud counts
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A federal grand jury has indicted a Milwaukee surgeon on 13 counts of federal health care fraud. Forty-four-year-old Cully White faces up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 on each count if he's convicted. Prosecutors say White recruited another physician identified only as K.B in the indictment to dictate reports making it look like K.B. had conducted nerve ...
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NRA pushes for recall of Colorado legislator
And now for the first time in almost two decades, the National Rifle Association is attempting to coordinate the recall of a top state legislator over his role in the passage of new gun restrictions in his state, CNN has ...
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Scott Walker Touts Job Growth That Ranks Wisconsin Seventh-To-Last In Nation
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) is pushing a report from his administration's Department of Workforce Development that puts the state's net private-sector job gains at 32,000 for 2012. Federally tallied figures for all states won't be available until June, as CBS affiliate WSAW explains, ...
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Milwaukee Backs off Bra Ban for Historic Bar
A historic Milwaukee bowling alley and bar almost went without the appropriate support after a city inspector decided dozens of bras hanging from its ceiling were a fire hazard. Holler House owner Marcy Skowronski (skah-RON-skee) says she and her friends started the tradition 45 years ago, when they had a few drinks and threw their bras onto skis hanging from the bar's ceiling. ...
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Police investigate death in West Allis
death in an apartment building in the 7400 block of W. Washington St. "The initial investigation reveals that a 63 year old female of West Allis was found deceased inside a common hallway to the apartment building," said Chief Charles Padgett. "The party is a resident of the building.Members of the West Allis Police Department are investigating on scene and the Milwaukee County ...
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Stocks finish higher for fourth straight week
The Dow Jones industrial average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all ended higher Friday, with the Dow and S&P 500 finishing at record levels. For the week, the S&P 500 added 2%, the Dow rose 1.5% and the Nasdaq advanced ...
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Walmart Sams Club stores proposed for Pabst Farms in Oconomowoc
Journal Sentinel business reporter Tom Daykin talks about commercial real estate and development, including stores, hotels, offices, condos, apartments and industrial ...
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50 Farmington students sickened at Wisconsin camp
About 50 kids from the Farmington School District became ill with a suspected norovirus while at a Wisconsin camp this week. Students from Akin Road Elementary were staying at YMCA Camp Pepin in Stockholm, Wis., Monday, May 13, through Wednesday, when many became sick with stomach and intestinal issues. Superintendent Jay Haugen said that at last count 47 children from the school became ill. He ...
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Roundys plans to expand Marianos concepts at Pick n Save stores
Roundy's plans to expand its pilot program to use concepts from Mariano's Fresh Market at Pick 'n Save stores. Roundys Inc. plans to expand a test program bringing concepts from its Marianos Fresh Market chain to stores throughout the Pick n Save chain, Roundys chairman and CEO Bob Mariano said Friday. The Milwaukee company had been testing the program in 14 Pick n Save stores in the ...
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Bear bites Wisconsin man circles home
Authorities in Wisconsin said they responded to a home on a report of a man being bitten by a black bear that refused to leave his yard. Marinette County sheriff's deputies and Silver Cliff Rescue said the Silver Cliff man's wife called authorities Wednesday at 1:25 p.m. to report a black bear had bitten her husband and was circling their home, The (Iron Mountain, Mich.) Daily News ...
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SE Wis. road construction projects
In Stage 2, Rawson Avenue southbound entrance ramp, northbound loop ramp, northbound exit-ramp, and southbound exit ramp to eastbound Rawson Avenue will be closed to traffic. Rawson Avenue will maintain one lane of traffic in each direction between 13th and 20th streets. Stage 2 of construction will start in early March to early ...
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Is MPS superintendent Gregory Thornton leaving
MILWAUKEE - Rumors are circulating once again that Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Gregory Thornton may be leaving the district. Erin Richard with the Journal Sentinel will join us to talk more about the ...
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