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Outpost Natural Foods plans July start 80 jobs for Mequon store
Rendering of Outpost Natural Foods' store in Mequon Outpost Natural Foods Cooperative has closed on the purchase of a site in Mequon for its fourth store location, expected to create 80 jobs, and is aiming for a July start to construction. Also this week, an Oconomowoc developer proposes building townhouses on a South Milwaukee site owned by the city of South Milwaukee. The Milwaukee-based ...
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Budget panel to consider rent-to-own changes
MADISON -- The Legislature's Joint Finance Committee is poised to consider provisions in Gov. Scott Walker's executive budget that would exempt rent-to-own stores from Wisconsin's consumer protection laws. Rent-to-own businesses offer customers a chance to rent items such as appliances and electronics with no credit check. Customers can exit and rejoin the deals as they wish with ...
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Selig tells UWM grads to stress power of possibilities
Commissioner of Major League Baseball Allan H. (Bud) Selig (left) receives a No. 42 Panthers UWM Panthers jersey in a presentation during the UW-Milwaukee commencement ceremony. Selig also spoke at the ...
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MLB St. Louis 4 Milwaukee 2
Rookie John Gast tossed 5 1/3 innings in his second major league start Sunday and the St. Louis Cardinals beat Milwaukee 4-2. Gast (2-0), filling in for the ...
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Milwaukee police investigating shooting
It happened around 2:20 a.m. on Sunday near 54th Street and Green Tree Road. Police said one person sustained non-life-threatening injuries during the shooting. No information was immediately available about what led up to the incident or whether anyone has been ...
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Fire damages home in Sussex
The fire started about 9:30 p.m. Saturday near Sunset and Hickory drives in the village of Sussex, firefighters said. Neighbors said they had to enter the home to tell the residents that their garage was on fire. Authorities said that upon arrival, the garage and two vehicles inside it were fully engulfed in flames. The fire then spread to the home. The fire caused about $130,000 in damage, fire ...
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Oak Creek crash leaves at least 2 injured
The crash happened about 12:20 a.m. on Sunday near 13th Street and College Avenue. Police told WISN 12 News that at least two people suffered injuries that were not considered to be ...
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Tornadoes touch down in Kansas Oklahoma
A large "violent and extremely dangerous" tornado was spotted on the southwest side of Wichita, Kansas, moving northeast at about 30 miles per hour, the National Weather Service ...
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Brewers Lohse has rough fourth inning
Kyle Lohse on the mound, Aramis Ramirez out of the lineup and the St. Louis Cardinals with another big inning. It all added up to yet another setback for the Brewers to their rival at Busch Stadium on Sunday afternoon, 4-2. The Cardinals got to their former teammate Lohse for four two-out runs on six hits – five of them singles – in the fourth inning while the Brewers’ ...
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State takes over Madison police shooting case
MADISON -- The Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation has taken over the investigation of the shooting death in Madison of a man who allegedly charged police officers with a sword. The Dane County Medical Examiner identifies him as 43-year-old Brent E. Bozek. The Wisconsin State Journal reports Bozek was shot Friday night after a day-long standoff that began when officers attempted to ...
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Black flies at Wis. refuge plague whooping cranes
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Experts say a swarm of black flies appears to be the best explanation for why endangered whooping cranes are abandoning their nests at a Wisconsin wildlife ...
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Traffic lights out at major Milwaukee intersection
Sandy Rusch Walton with the DPW said drivers should be especially cautious at the intersection of 51st Boulevard, Capitol Drive and Fond du Lac ...
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Milwaukee Public Museum to feature poop exhibit
Visitors can listen to an animal's digestive system, learn the language of poop in countries around the world, examine fecal samples in a veterinarian's lab and compete in dung beetle ...
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Obama to give promised speech on terrorism drones
President Barack Obama will deliver long-promised remarks Thursday explaining the legal framework behind the decisions he makes to use drones against terrorist threats and further detail the administration's counterterrorism policy, according to a White House ...
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PolitiFact Testing Barrett claim on report on residency requirement
PolitiFact Wisconsin : Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says a state report projects that "approximately half" of public employees would live outside municipal boundaries after a decade if the state bans local residency ...
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Small Fla. city wonders who won $590.5 million Powerball jackpot
View Photo Associated Press/Ben Margot - A woman prepares to choose her numbers on a lottery ticket Saturday, May 18, 2013, in the Chinatown district in Oakland, Calif. A record Powerball jackpot has climbed to $600 ...
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Wisconsin has 2 $1 million Powerball winners
The sole winning ticket for the $590.5 million jackpot was sold in Florida. But the Wisconsin Lottery says $1 million tickets were sold in Antigo and ...
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Operation Drive Sober initiative results in 12 arrests
MILWAUKEE- A weekend drunk driving intiative in Milwaukee county results in 12 arrests. The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department says the average PAC of the offenders was 0.16. Two of the people arrested were repeat offenders. The aggressive Driving Under the Influence initiative began Friday night and ended early this morning. Since January 2010, Operation Drive Sober has resulted in ...
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Remember core values comedian Bill Cosby tells MU graduates
Comedian Bill Cosby delivered an inspirational commencement address to Marquette University students and faculty Sunday at the BMO Bradley ...
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9 still hospitalized after trains crash
Two passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour Friday evening in southwestern Connecticut, damaging both trains and leaving dozens injured, some of them critically, authorities ...
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Wisconsin bill would ban mandatory flu shots
Wisconsin employers, including hospitals and nursing homes, could no longer require workers to get flu shots under a bill pending in the Legislature. Republican Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, of Fond du Lac, says he began drafting the legislation after several hospital workers and health care contractors in his district complained they were fired after refusing to be vaccinated. The bill would ...
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Garage fire in Sussex
SUSSEX: A possible explosion and fire destroyed a garage connected to a home in Sussex early this morning. Neighbors described hearing what sounded like firecrackers for about fifteen minutes before seeing flames or smoke. The garage's roof along with two vehicles were destroyed in the fire. No one was hurt. There's no word yet on what caused the fire. The damage is estimated at ...
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Report N. Korea fires fourth missile
North Korea fired a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Sunday, according to South Korea's semiofficial news agency Yonhap, citing a South Korean military ...
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Another nice day today for Milwaukee before rain storms hit
Sunday will start with a bit of patchy morning fog before mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies take over for the majority of the day, according to WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) meteorologist Jesse Ritka. There is a very slim chance for a morning shower if storms in Iowa hold together, but that will be a quick chance and most of the Milwaukee area will stay dry. It will be warmer with a bit more humidity ...
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Partial I-94 closure ends 7.5 hours earlier than scheduled
But around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, the Department of Transportation announced that work had ended more than seven hours early, so all lanes were ...
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