Milwaukee News

Candles held high, Jill Reifsnider and Kristin Thayer hugged and sobbed Sunday night as they paid tribute to and honored the memory of their friend and fallen soldier, Staff Sgt.

By ASSOCIATED PRESS Sunday, November 8, 2009 - 3:24 p.m. MILWAUKEE a ' The three Wisconsin soldiers injured in last weeka TMs shooting rampage at Fort Hood continue to recover, although their future deployment plans remain unclear.

Police responded to a vacant building on Milwaukee's north side Saturday night, but not for a crime scene.

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Milwaukee police shut down a large underage party early Sunday morning. Police said the party was taking place in a vacant building on Martin Luther King Drive on Milwaukee's north side.

The 46th Annual Veterans Day Parade and Day of Honor will roll down the streets of downtown Milwaukee on Saturday, November 7, 2009.

The city of Milwaukee is paying tribute to the nation's veterans this weekend. This year, parade organizers are inviting the public to participate in a full day of events on Saturday.

One of the men convicted of murdering Tom Monfils in a Green Bay paper mill 12 years ago has enlisted the aid of the Wisconsin Innocence Project in seeking a new trial.

A young woman is shot in Milwaukee early Saturday morning. MILWAUKEE- A 25 year-old woman is at Mt.

Key points of the 2010 city budget adopted Friday by the Common Council, subject to line-item vetoes by Mayor Tom Barrett: Total spending: $1.44 billion, up 2% from $1.41 billion.

Capt. Russell Seager's wife and adult son got the phone call at midnight that every military family fears.

If a Fond du Lac County judge had his way, Thomas C. Niesen would die in prison.

A report that says federal stimulus funding saved or created more than 10,000 jobs in Wisconsin is filled with errors and inflated numbers.

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will speak in a Milwaukee suburb on Friday night as part of a program presented by Wisconsin Right to Life.

Lawrence University plans to rename an academic building after graduate Thomas Steitz, who recently won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

A comprehensive toughening of Wisconsin's notoriously weak drunken driving laws moved a step closer to becoming law Thursday with unanimous approval by the state Senate.

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Unemployed and desperate, a 19-year-old Sheboygan man is trying to sell one of the only things he owns -- his name.

Milwaukee police are trying to determine the identity of a dead body found in Lake Michigan on Monday near the Discovery World tourist attraction.

Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commissioner Peter Bradford is in Wisconsin on Thursday and Friday to talk about the costs of nuclear power.