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Sept. 5, 2012 11:18 a.m. | Administrators at Wisconsin Lutheran College are trying to reach out to residents in the neighborhoods around the school as it seeks to win approval of a rezoning of houses that it owns.
But some residents are skeptical of the college's long-range plans, in spite of its assurances. Many are long-term residents with years of experience with the college that has made them wary.
At a July meeting, Plan Commission members, faced with 16 residents opposed to the rezoning, and a petition signed by 38 also in opposition, put off the college's request, and asked it to return with more detailed plans and a clearer picture of its future. The college plans to return to the commission Sept. 10. ?Read Full Article
Updated: 11:58 a.m. | The state Department of Justice has been asked to review possible charges in a weekend Milwaukee homicide because the suspect in the case is the son of a Milwaukee judge.
James Donegan, 32, is being held in the Milwaukee County jail on $250,000 bail. He was arrested Sunday night shortly after the stabbing death of Teresa Boone at Kilbourn Reservoir Park. Police credited witness cooperation for the quick arrest.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Kent Lovern said Wednesday that his office had asked the attorney general's office to handle the review of the case and make the decision on what charges, if any, to file in the homicide to avoid any appearance of bias due to Donegan's relationship to Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Thomas P. Donegan. ?Read Full Article
By Associated Press
Sept. 5, 2012 11:18 a.m. | Wisconsin Rapids - A jail administrator in central Wisconsin has been suspended after the escape of an inmate.
Wood County Sheriff Thomas Reichert said the inmate was painting in a work-release section of the jail last week and escaped through a door that was open for ventilation. The inmate was located and arrested the following day in Wisconsin Rapids.
Reichert said administrator Andrew Netz exercised poor judgment in allowing the open door. WAOW-TV reported Netz was suspended 30 days without pay.
Sept. 5, 2012 11:08 a.m. | The parent organization of Ministry Health Care, which has 15 hospitals in Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota, has signed a memorandum of understanding that could lead to the health system becoming a regional ministry of Ascension Health Alliance, the country's largest Catholic health system.
Marian Health System, parent of Ministry Health Care, said the memorandum of understanding also includes Via Christi Health in Wichita, Kan., and St. John Health System in Tulsa, Okla.
All three systems are sponsored by the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 5, 2012 11:02 a.m. | AdvenioTecnoSys, a Kolkata, India, health care company, has licensed software that automatically assesses digital images of the liver from the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The software helps assess features on liver scans, such as scarring and fat deposits, said Joseph Bockhorst, and assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at UWM.
The licensing agreement gives Advenio six months to continue evaluating the software and look for funding to further develop it, said Brian Thompson, president of the UWM Research Foundation. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 5, 2012 10:57 a.m. | Two Milwaukee development firms want to replace the former Prospect Mall with retail space and around 50 apartments.
Joseph Property Development LLC and Boulder Venture Inc. unveiled their plans at a Tuesday meeting of the East Side Architectural Review Board. The?development site?is at 2217-2239 N. Prospect Ave.
The proposal calls for remodeling the 100-year-old vacant building into a one-story brick structure that would resemble its original appearance?before being covered with the current facade. That would create around 10,000 square feet of street-level retail space. ?Read Full Blog Post
Sept. 5, 2012 10:55 a.m. | Charlotte, N.C. -- Former?Gov. Jim Doyle gave a rare interview at the Democratic National Convention to praise President Obama.?
Doyle, an early endorser of Obama for president, saw Obama in 2008 as a rebirth of another Doyle inspiration, President John F. Kennedy. After four years, Doyle said he feels more that way.?
?I feel more that way. My sentiments were so expressed by Michelle Obama last night. He has just in the face of unbelievable opposition, in the face of a Republican Party that would rather have the economy go down the tubes than see him re-elected president, in the face of that kind of we?ll do anything to stop you, he has just persevered in a positive way. He has had incredible accomplishments,? Doyle said. ?Read Full Blog Post
Updated: 10:48 a.m. | Green Bay -- Before training camp --- at the annual shareholders meeting --- general manager Ted Thompson made a point to say the Packers were "maturing"?and that they wouldn't be the youngest team in the league. He is correct, to an extent. The Super Bowl core from 2010 remains mostly in tact.
But after another round of cuts catered toward rookies, it's clear the Packers will be fielding a young team. On the Packers' 53-man roster, 46 players are 28 years or younger (86.8%). And nearly half of the roster -- 25 players -- are 24 years or younger.
No revelation by any means. An emphasis on youth is how Thompson rebuilt the Packers. Yet in sticking to Thompson's blueprint, the Packers do enter the 2012 season green at a handful of key positions. Rather than sign a veteran or two to push a contending team over the top -- much like Ron Wolf did in the mid-90's -- Thompson will be leaning on many players in that 21-24 age bracket. ?Read Full Blog Post
Sept. 5, 2012 10:48 a.m. | A Fargo, N.D., maker of DNA and protein products said Wednesday it is doubling the amount of space it has in Madison's University Research Park.
Aldevron is moving into the park's accelerator building and expanding into 7,200 square feet of space, the company said.
"The combination of favorable market trends and a talented team has allowed us to move from a temporary office to a purpose-built biotech facility in three years," said Tom Foti, vice president and general manager, in a statement. The new facility will allow Aldevron to accommodate larger manufacturing processes and expand its services to compete with North American and Asian suppliers, Foti said. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 5, 2012 10:44 a.m. | A natural gas leak was reported about 9:45 a.m. Wednesday in the 5800 block of S. Pennsylvania Ave. in Cudahy and some houses and businesses were evacuated.
A contractor doing road work struck a service line, We Energies spokesman Brian Manthey said.
The leak was stopped by 10:20 a.m. and a crew was repairing the line, Manthey said.
Sept. 5, 2012 10:34 a.m. | Viswa Subbaraman, founder and artistic director of Houston's Opera Vista, will become the Skylight Music Theatre's next artistic director, the local company announced Wednesday.
Subbaraman will take over the Skylight's artistic leadership beginning with the 2013-'14 season. He succeeds Bill Theisen, who is finishing his 9th season as the Skylight's artistic leader.
"I want every single production we do during a season to continue a dialogue, whether it's about heroism, revolution, fairy tales or some other part of the human experience," Subbaraman said in a statement released by the Skylight. ?Read Full Article
By Terrie Peret, tperet@cninow.com
Sept. 5, 2012 10:32 a.m. | Oak Creek police are seeking the people responsible for the explosion of two bottle bombs in a residential area the evening of Aug. 28.
According to the police report:
Several residents called police after hearing what they thought were shotgun blasts, fireworks or a car backfiring in the 400 block of East Wynbrook Drive at 11:12 p.m. Aug. 28. Firefighters and police officers responded to the area, where they found two, two-liter bottles on the sidewalk and tin foil strewn about. No property was damaged by the blasts. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 5, 2012 10:18 a.m. | Charlotte, N.C. -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was wrapping up a breakfast with journalists when a reporter told her that President Obama's acceptance address Thursday night had been moved from the outdoor Bank of America stadium to the indoor Time Warner Cable Arena due to forecasts of bad weather.
"Oh! You knew before me!" said Pelosi, speaking at a roundtable sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.
"It's rain. What can we do? The higher power," Pelosi said. "I think it would have been nice. It was wonderful when he did it before (in Denver) ... But there are some decisions that are made from a different place and whether it rains or not is not in the President's control."?
Updated: 10:14 a.m. | By a 10-5 vote, members of the Common Council voted on Wednesday to reappoint Rhonda Kelsey as the city's purchasing director.
The vote came after a motion to place her reappointment on file failed.
Voting against her reappointment were Alds. Tony Zielinski, Nik Kovic, Bob Bauman, Robert Puente and Joe Dudzik. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 5, 2012 10:06 a.m. | Comments Tuesday from a key White House adviser reignited a debate about whether Republican Tommy Thompson supported President Barack Obama's health care reform law.
Nancy-Ann DeParle, Obama's top adviser on health care, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel at the Democratic National Convention that Thompson supported the Affordable Care Act when he attended a high-profile meeting two years ago.
While campaigning for the U.S. Senate, Thompson has repeatedly said he never supported the law and would work to repeal and replace it if he defeats Democrat Tammy Baldwin in November. ?Read Full Blog Post
Sept. 5, 2012 9:57 a.m. | Elm Grove residents Nancy and Kraig Klapperich had no idea the danger their son, Staff Sgt. Kyle Klapperich, faced every day for the last eight years.?
Until a few weeks ago when Nancy and Kraig were invited to the Pentagon for an award ceremony, they also had no idea how many lives their son has saved. In mid-August, Kyle was awarded the Purple Heart and the Combat Action Medal for bravery under fire for one of his three tours of duty in Afghanistan. He also has served one tour in Iraq.
Kyle is a seven-year veteran of the Elite Para-Rescue Jumpers division of the U.S. Air Force. He is part of the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Fla. Para-rescue jumpers spend two years in training learning trauma response, scuba diving, halo jumping, cave dwelling and all aspects of emergency medicine - from delivering a baby to skin grafts, Nancy explained. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 5, 2012 9:57 a.m. | The moral implications of the nation's immigration policy are among the?topics of discussion for faith leaders this week in Charlotte, N.C., where the Democratic National Convention got under way on Tuesday, according to ethicsdaily.com.
And clergy weren't the?only ones invoking?the Gospels.
Former?Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland took a jab at Republican?nominee Mitt Romney's off-shore investment accounts during his speech on Tuesday,?saying, "In Matthew, chapter 6, verse 21, the scriptures teach us that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. My friends, any man who aspires to be our president should keep both his treasure and his heart in the United States of America."
Sept. 5, 2012 9:46 a.m. | NeuWave Medical, a Madison medical device company, said Wednesday it has raised $14 million in a second round of financing.
H.I.G. BioVentures, a new investor in the company, led the funding round, NeuWave said. Other investors include Venture Investors, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the State of Wisconsin Investment Board.
NeuWave will use the money to further develop its Certus 140 thermal ablation system and continue developing minimally invasive tools for surgery and other medical uses. The thermal ablation system destroys cells with heat and has been commercially available for 18 months. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 5, 2012 9:45 a.m. | A new Washington Post survey says football is the nation's most popular sport.
Thirty-five percent of those surveyed said pro football is their favorite sport to watch. That was nearly three times as much as the next most popular sport: baseball.
The survey results come after yet another tumultuous off-season with concerns about health and safety, and the bounty scandal involving the New Orleans Saints. The season kicks off tonight with the Dallas Cowboys headed to New Jersey to meet the New York Giants. ?Read Full Blog Post
Sept. 5, 2012 9:14 a.m. | A college student still had a blood alcohol content too high to legally drive eight hours after he went missing from a group of friends Monday night.
Authorities launched a search for the 23-year-old because after a night downing shots of Goldschlager, tequila and whiskey along with a number of bourbon and Cokes with friends, no one could find him, according to a report in the La Crosse Tribune.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student had taken a nap in a stranger's car. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 5, 2012 8:55 a.m. | Shoppers at several Kohl?s Department Stores in Wisconsin will be able to charge electric vehicles at no cost while they shop, beginning this fall.
Kohl?s said Wednesday it will add 36 new charging stations at 18 locations this fall, its first charging stations in its home state.
Charging stations will be added at the Bayshore Town Center store in Glendale as well as stores in Johnson Creek and the Madison West store in Madison. Charging stations will also be added at the Kohl?s headquarters and its Menomonee Falls Credit Center, the company said. ?Read Full Blog Post
Sept. 5, 2012 8:46 a.m. | Charlotte, N.C. -- Top Democratic leaders dismissed Republicans at a Wednesday morning breakfast for Wisconsin delegation recovering from partying with forkfuls of eggs, with one referring to Gov. Scott Walker as a "smart-assed kid."
Former Democratic National Committee chairman and Vermont governor Howard Dean threw the hardest punches, criticizing Mitt Romney for taking advantage of the tax laws in ways that ordinary people could not.?
?The sin of Mitt Romney is not that he?s rich?it?s America,? Dean said. ?The sin is that he thinks he gets to play by rules that are different than we have to play by.? ?Read Full Blog Post
By Michael Runyon
Sept. 5, 2012 8:44 a.m. | A 16-year-old Milwaukee girl and a 20-year-old Milwaukee woman were arrested in a theft attempt that reportedly involved 42 pairs of underwear, clothes and accessories at the Wauwatosa Target on Aug. 29.
According to the police report:
The suspects, including one who had brought along her infant child, entered the store with two large bags and wandered around, stuffing items in them. The items - which included at least five pairs of bras, multiple pairs of panties, several bracelets and some clothing items - were valued at a total of $710. ?Read Full Article
Updated: 8:40 a.m. | Madison ? Wisconsin?s coaching staff ultimately decided freshman Vonte Jackson would redshirt this season because UW had sufficient depth at tailback, with four players who had contributed in a game.
Jackson?s No. 1 obstacle to securing playing time in 2013 will be his ability to overcome a second significant knee injury in the span of a year. ?Read Full Blog Post
By Associated Press
Sept. 5, 2012 8:08 a.m. | Hillsboro - A rural Hillsboro man has been arrested for the 11th time on suspicion of drunken driving.
Police say the 51-year-old man was picked up after driving on the wrong side of a highway in Hillsboro on Monday. The driver had been out on bond from a previous drunken driving arrest in March.
WKBT-TV says he's being held in the Vernon County Jail on $10,000 bond.
By Associated Press
Sept. 5, 2012 8:00 a.m. | One person has died in a fuel tanker crash in Wood County.
Sheriff's officials say the Kwik Trip tanker had a full load of fuel when the driver lost control on a curve in the Township of Richfield early Wednesday and rolled over in a ditch along county Highway A.
Authorities say a minimal amount of fuel was spilled. Kwik Trip is loading the fuel to another tanker. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has been notified of the spill.
Sept. 5, 2012 7:23 a.m. | TiqIQ, which provides ticket buyers with real-time information on ticket prices, reports that the average ticket price to see the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field is $260.37.
That's the 7th highest price in the National Football League. The season gets under way tonight with the Dallas Cowboys meeting the New York Giants in New Jersey.
On Sunday, the Packers will meet the San Francisco 49ers in a marquee matchup at Lambeau Field. According to TiqIQ, which bills itself as the largest aggregator of ticket events online, the home opener has an average ticket price of $252.10, with a get-in price of $139.
Sept. 5, 2012 7:16 a.m. | A 31-year-old off-duty Milwaukee police officer was critically injured Wednesday in a crash just after midnight on I-94 when the vehicle he was driving was struck by a wrong-way driver who did not have her vehicle's headlights on, authorities said.
The officer, whose name was not released, had just gotten off work and was on his way home when he was hit by the drunken driver, the Milwaukee Police Department said.
The woman was driving westbound in the eastbound lanes of I-94 and crashed into the off-duty officer's vehicle at N. 30th St. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 5, 2012 7:06 a.m. | Meijer Inc.'s combined supermarket-discount store planned for Grafton received final zoning approval Tuesday night from the Village Board.
Also, the Meijer store proposed for Franklin received zoning approval Tuesday night from the Common Council. But the council delayed acting on a separate permitting issue until its Sept. 18 meeting.
Both stores would be the first in Wisconsin for Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Meijer. The company wants to begin construction next year, with the stores opening in 2014. ?Read Full Blog Post
Sept. 5, 2012 6:30 a.m. | A 71-year-old driver died in a one-car crash about 5 p.m. Tuesday at N. 70th St. and W. Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee police said.
Police said the driver may have had a medical emergency right before the crash.
The driver's name has not yet been released by police.
Sept. 5, 2012 6:24 a.m. | A 31-year-old Milwaukee man was shot in the left thigh about 4:40 p.m. Tuesday in the 3100 block of N. 12th St., Milwaukee police said.
The man was treated at a hospital.
Police said they are searching for a suspect.
By Associated Press
Sept. 5, 2012 5:56 a.m. | Sturgeon Bay - An Illinois man is charged with killing a woman and her unborn child at a Wisconsin resort last month.
The prosecutor on Tuesday charged 35-year-old Brian Cooper with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of third-degree sexual assault.
Cooper is accused of strangling 22-year-old Alisha Bromfield at a Door County resort. The two, from Plainfield, Ill., were staying at a hotel for a wedding. ?Read Full Article
By Associated Press
Sept. 5, 2012 5:46 a.m. | Madison - The state wants to keep nearly $20,000 in cash that was seized from four people in relation to alleged sports-betting operations.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice has filed complaints asking a judge to declare the money as contraband. State officials want the money transferred to the State School Fund.
No criminal charges were filed in any case. Two of the cases date back to 2005, and the other two are from 2007. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 5, 2012 5:30 a.m. | Welcome,?Wednesday. You may be stuck?there in the middle of the week, but you have so much to offer:?
Kati Marton tells just about all in her memoir "Paris: A Love Story." It explores how she dealt with the sudden death of her husband, diplomat Richard Holbrooke (she moved to Paris), her life with former husband, newsman Peter Jennings. Through it all, she always had Paris, as they say. The book looks at?the enduring role that the City of Light has played in her life.? Marton appears at Boswell Book Company, 2559 N. Downer Ave., at 7 p.m. Free.
The Blueburg Cafe at the Cedarburg Cultural Center, W62 N546 Washington Ave., holds Plug and Play, an open mic event showcasing musicians, poets, dancers and anyone else who can't resist the urge to get up and perform. ?Read Full Blog Post
Sept. 4, 2012 | Miami - It's supposed to be difficult to hit home runs in spacious Marlins Park but somebody forgot to tell Norichika Aoki and Jeff Bianchi.
Two players not known for their power ripped big blasts Tuesday night to help the Milwaukee Brewers overcome the Miami Marlins, 8-4, after an early three-run lead got away.
It was the 12th victory in 15 games for the Brewers (66-69), who remained 7 ? games out of the second wild-card spot in the National League with 27 games to play. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 4, 2012 | Kettle Moraine School District employees finally got an answer regarding a retirement plan transition for employees who no longer have retirement compensation, but for some, it wasn't quite what they hoped it would be.?
"It's a sad day," said KM High School social studies teacher Tammy Johnson after the meeting.
Board members struggled to come up with a figure that would help retain quality teachers at a price the district can afford in the face of looming deficits.?Trying to provide fair compensation?as a bridge to Medicare coverage?to employees with more than 10 years of service in the district ?without creating unfunded liability, board member Jay Crouse threw out a proposal that was eventually batted down as too meager an offering.? ?Read Full Blog Post
Sept. 4, 2012 | Power has been restored to about 2,800 We Energies customers in Cudahy after a service interruption caused by a lightning strike, utility spokesman Brian Manthey said late Tuesday.
In addition to the Cudahy power losses, severe thunderstorms and high winds knocked out electricity to about 3,000 We Energies customers in Jefferson County, and scattered outages were reported throughout southeastern Wisconsin, Manthey said.
The storms that swept across southern Wisconsin Tuesday evening and Tuesday night downed trees and power lines along their path, the National Weather Service in Sullivan reported. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 4, 2012 | The per-pupil funding that Wisconsin has budgeted for local school districts heading into the 2012-'13 school year is slightly higher than per-pupil funding budgeted for last school year, but still far below the amount the state was sending to school districts before the start of the recession in 2008, according to a new report released Tuesday.
The report analyzes state budget documents for 48 states and projects per-student spending in Wisconsin this school year to be down $911 from the 2007-'08 school year, the fourth-largest decline in spending per student over that period for all the states studied.
But per-student spending by Wisconsin is projected to increase by about $3 per student this year, the second year of Gov. Scott Walker's biennial state budget, according to the report from the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities, a nonprofit Washington, D.C., think tank that describes itself as "fiscally conservative and socially liberal." ?Read Full Article
Sept. 4, 2012 | Milwaukee and most of southeastern Wisconsin is now included in a severe thunderstorm warning issued by the National Weather Service in Sullivan, to be in effect until 10:30 p. m.
Sept. 4, 2012 | A 21-year-old man too drunk to drive home shot a friend who allowed him to spend the night and then fatally shot himself, according to a report released Tuesday by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office.
Michael D. Cowart might have been trying to tell the friend and the friend's girlfriend that someone was trying to break into the home in the 2600 block of N. Fratney St. when he awakened them shortly after 4 a.m. Monday, according to the medical examiner's report.
Cowart then began shooting, striking his friend three times. He then walked into the living room and shot himself in the head. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 4, 2012 | Facing the prospect of a multimillion-dollar redesign, state transportation officials plan to seek a formal waiver of federal disability access standards for renovating downtown Milwaukee's passenger train concourse.
Federal rail officials have shown no signs of yielding. But Gov. Scott Walker's administration might be gambling on the possibility that fellow Republican Mitt Romney could be in the White House by the time the issue is decided.
The state Department of Transportation has been under federal pressure for several years to rebuild the rail concourse at the state-owned Amtrak-Greyhound station to meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The concourse, also known as the train shed, is the area where passengers board and disembark from trains to and from Chicago, the Twin Cities, the Pacific Northwest and points in between. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 4, 2012 | Charlotte, N.C.?-- U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore of Milwaukee shared center stage Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention.
Moore was part of a group of some two dozen female candidates and members of the House of Representatives who were introduced by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. ?
Greeted by a rousing cheer from the Wisconsin delegation, Moore?described herself as a mother and grandmother and called out a booming promise to victims of violence at home.? ?Read Full Blog Post
Sept. 4, 2012 | The leader of a Hindu sect in Milwaukee who was convicted of bringing sham priests to the United States under a religious worker visa program will be sitting behind bars as he awaits sentencing.
Sagarsen Haldar was ordered detained last week by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa, who cited the risk that Haldar might flee to his native India before his sentencing in October. Haldar faces up to five years in prison.
Haldar, 32, was convicted by a jury in November of conspiracy to defraud the government. The prosecutor showed that over two years Haldar filed 25 applications with the State Department to bring people from India to work at his temple in Milwaukee. They were not religious workers, however, but more like indentured servants who were charged up to $30,000 by Haldar to arrange their entry, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Haanstad. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 4, 2012 | A 39-year-old man was arrested Tuesday morning after he and another man attacked three people waiting in line to enter the Milwaukee County Courthouse, the sheriff's office reported.
Two of the victims were beaten bad enough to require transport to a hospital, authorities said.
Security staff at the 9th St. screening station called for help shortly before 9 a.m. and police quickly apprehended one of the assailants. The other attacker was seen entering the Milwaukee Area Technical College and was still at large. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 4, 2012 | Charlotte, N.C. -- A spotlight shone on Ohio's public employees Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention instead of on their counterparts in Wisconsin.?
The Buckeye state's public worker unions successfully carried out a statewide referendum to soundly repeal a law there to sharply restrict their collective bargaining. But Wisconsin lacks such a process and instead public employee unions here unsuccessfully tried to recall Gov. Scott Walker for championing a similar law here.?
So it was Doug Stern, a fireman from Cincinnati, Ohio and self-professed former Republican who addressed the crowd here Tuesday night.? ?Read Full Blog Post
Sept. 4, 2012 | A man convicted of taking part in the fatal robbery of a west side resident known for helping people in need was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison.
Darryl Goates-Sanders, 25, pleaded guilty last month to an amended charge of homicide by dangerous weapon. He was originally charged with felony murder. He was also ordered to serve another four years of extended supervision after his release, and credited for almost 2? years he's been in jail since his arrest for the 2010 crime.
According to a criminal complaint, Thomas Arthur Viljevac Sr. allowed Cassandra L. Moore, 28, and her two children to stay at his home rent-free. Moore then told Robert Devell Edwards that Viljevac, 59, kept money at the home in the 200 block of N. 30th St. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 4, 2012 | Madison - Groups that blocked the state's new voter ID law in two lawsuits this spring are fighting an effort to have the state Supreme Court take over the cases and render a ruling before the presidential election.
Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen last month asked the high court to take the cases from two appeals courts, consolidate them and rule before the Nov. 6 election.
The Supreme Court this spring rejected an earlier effort by Van Hollen to take over the cases. Van Hollen argues it is appropriate to take the cases now that both cases have complete trial records. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 4, 2012 | Greenfield - At the Greenfield School District annual meeting, residents will review a proposed $45.5 million budget for the 2012-13 school year that calls for a nearly flat property tax levy.
The annual meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the Greenfield High School Performing Arts Center, 4800 S. 60th St.
At $25 million, the proposed levy is 0.26 percent or $63,737 higher than the levy for last year. It would support a proposed budget of $45.5 million, of which $35.68 million would be for the general fund - basically the operating budget. That is barely higher than last year's $35.65 million general fund. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 4, 2012 | Milwaukee police Officer Erin K. Lelinski has been suspended for 30 days for driving drunk and becoming involved in a crash while off duty, according to the Fire and Police Commission.
The crash occurred around 9:20 p.m. June 7 outside Lucky's Irish Pub, 789 W. Layton Ave., according to a complaint Chief Edward Flynn filed with the commission. The complaint does not indicate whether another vehicle was involved in the crash or whether anyone was injured. Lelinski's blood-alcohol level was 0.21, more than twice the legal limit for driving in Wisconsin, the complaint says.
Lelinski was hired as a police officer in 2000. Her previous disciplinary record includes only an official reprimand for missing court, according to her personnel record. ?Read Full Article
Sept. 4, 2012 | Madison -- Groups that blocked the state?s new voter ID law in two separate lawsuits are fighting an effort to have the state Supreme Court take over the cases and render a ruling before the Nov. 6 election.
Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen last month asked?the high court to take the cases from two appeals courts, consolidate them and rule before the election.
The Supreme Court this spring rejected an earlier effort by Van Hollen to take over the cases. Van Hollen argues it is appropriate to take the cases now that they both have full trial records. ?Read Full Blog Post
Source: http://www.jsonline.com/newswatch/wisconsin-lutheran-neighbors-fight-colleges-rezoning-efforts-606no64-168622786.html
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