Downtown Milwaukee and south to Racine and Kenosha Counties received mostly rain overnight while a full-fledged blizzard was blowing through much of the rest of the state. According to overnight reports into the National Weather Service, snow totals as of about 3 a.m. ranged from about 3 inches in Mequon to 8.7 inches in Hartford to 15 inches in Madison. By 5:30, a weather observer in the Holy ... Full Story »
The federal sex trafficking case against Derrick Avery greatly expanded Tuesday, with 12 new criminal counts handed down by a grand jury in Milwaukee. Full Story »
What Thaying Lor claimed was his right as a husband in an arranged Hmong marriage was in fact criminal behavior, a Milwaukee County jury decided Tuesday. Full Story »
A Milwaukee police officer and his wife have been charged with running a mortgage fraud scheme since 2005, according to a criminal complaint released Tuesday. Full Story »
A revised plan for UW-Milwaukee's satellite engineering campus on the County Grounds should more clearly delineate areas to be kept free from development, county supervisors said Tuesday. Full Story »
A prostitute who stole a john's tow truck and led police on a chase that ended in a crash on a bike path was sentenced Tuesday to nine months in the county House of Correction. Jacqueline Robellar was given 60 days' credit for time she has already served, and then will serve the 30 days in jail, followed by six months of jail with work-release privileges under the sentence issued by Milwaukee ... Full Story »
Glendale — Bayshore Town Center and iPic Entertainment want to increase seating in the iPic's six movie theaters by nearly one-quarter. The request to boost maximum seating to 530 from 430, with a maximum of 125 seats per theater, will be considered tonight by the city's Community Development Authority. The two-year-old entertainment center also has a bar, restaurant and bowling center. Full Story »
Wauwatosa — A Common Council committee tonight will be asked to approve "Mount Tosa," a proposed complex of apartments and condominiums on a former landfill site that is projected to eventually be worth more than $50 million. Toldt Development Inc. of Brookfield wants to build 427 residential units, to include conventional apartments, apartments for senior citizens and condominiums, on an 18 ... Full Story »
The city and Summerfest have reached a deal on a lease extension that clears the way for large-scale renovations on the lakefront grounds and requires the nonprofit festival corporation to make six-figure payments for police and fire services. Full Story »
Because of the winter storm, Rep. Jon Richards (D-Milwaukee) has scrapped the plans for a town hall meeting on the Hoan Bridge scheduled for Wednesday night in Bay View. Representatives from the Department of Transportation decided not to travel from Madison to Milwaukee in the ongoing snowstorm. Their participation in the public meeting was to be the key element in the discussion about plans to ... Full Story »
Wauwatosa — Ald. Linda Nikcevich will ask the Common Council tonight to discuss imposing restrictions on the number of licenses the city issues for the sale of liquor in stores. In a memo, Nikcevich says: • The city has issued 23 Class A liquor licenses, including seven in the past few months. Most are for the sale of beer and liquor, although some licenses restrict sales to one or the other. Full Story »
If you've ever quaffed a brew at the end of a hot round of golf on a Milwaukee County course or enjoyed a cold one at the lakefront at the huge July 3 fireworks, chances are it was illegal for the county to dispense it. Full Story »
The Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, a non-profit agency in West Allis, is warning the public not to give money to anyone who is soliciting door to door saying they are collecting donations for the center. The center said Tuesday that people claiming to be volunteers may be going door to door in Wauwatosa. Full Story »
U.S. 41 northbound has reopened in Brown County after a crash closes the interstate. The wreck was near the highway's intersection with Ashland Road, according to the Wisconsin State Patrol. Full Story »
Gov. Jim Doyle declared a state of emergency for all of Wisconsin as an approaching storm system threatened to bring white-out conditions and hazardous roads. Full Story »
Madison — A Wisconsin appeals court has upheld a restraining order that bans a woman from attending Major League Baseball games where Bob Uecker is announcing. A court commissioner issued the four-year injunction against Ann Ladd of Prospect Heights, Ill., after the voice of the Milwaukee Brewers complained the woman harassed and stalked him for years. Uecker said Ladd approached him after games ... Full Story »
Tiger Woods' mother-in-law was admitted to a hospital with stomach pains early Tuesday, a hospital spokesman said. Someone called 911 from the golfer's Orlando-area mansion about 2:35 a.m. Barbro Holmberg was taken by ambulance to Health Central Hospital, where she was in stable condition later Tuesday, hospital spokesman Dan Yates said. He said her condition was not serious but he could not be ... Full Story »
Cardinal Stritch University President Helen C. Sobehart announced that she would step down from her post by the end of the year, citing the health problems of one of her sons that require her to move to be near family members in Pittsburgh. Full Story »
A psychiatrist at the Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center lobbied unsuccessfully to take the place of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused in last month's Fort Hood shootings, in a deployment to Afghanistan with a Wisconsin-based combat stress unit. Full Story »
The heaviest storm in the area this week may hit inside the Beulah Brinton Community Center in Bay View, where a top state transportation official will provide an update on plans for repairing or replacing the Hoan Bridge. Full Story »
For weeks, friends have been urging me to see a certain movie. "You've got to see 'Precious'!" Many of these people were film buffs, mostly black women with stories to tell about childhood abuse and trauma, which are main themes in the movie. Full Story »
Milwaukee police are searching for a man suspected of impersonating a police officer and trying to enter south side homes on at least 10 occasions since Thursday. Full Story »
Three Milwaukee police officers were injured Monday afternoon when they were struck by a car while on foot patrol in the city's Riverwest neighborhood. The incident was reported shortly after 5 p.m. at the intersection of N. Fratney and E. Center streets, Police Chief Edward A. Flynn said at the scene. One of the officers went over the hood of the vehicle, breaking the windshield, and suffered a ... Full Story »
Bail was set Monday at $1 million in Waukesha County for Jack E. Johnson, one of three men who police say participated in the murder-for-hire slaying of Kimberly Ann Smith. Smith's body was found Oct. 1 in the living room of her Oconomowoc home, according to a criminal complaint filed against Johnson in November and unsealed Monday. Her hands were bound with ribbon, and she had been stabbed ... Full Story »
The Kenosha County Health Department canceled a swine flu vaccine clinic scheduled for Wednesday, citing concern about predictions of a heavy winter snowstorm in the area Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. The county will instead offer the H1N1 vaccine to residents Dec. 15 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Kenosha County Center, 19600 75th St., Bristol and Dec. 16, 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the ... Full Story »
Christmas decorations illuminate Berlin's main shopping streets. AP Photo/Franka Bruns
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