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Republicans on the Legislature's budget committee largely signed off Tuesday on giving Gov.

Dar Zitoun, "house of the olive tree," belonged to Kitty Morse's father. When he died, he left the house to her and her brothers.

The following individuals from Wauwatosa are among the more than 3,500 prospective candidates for degree who took part in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee commencement exercises Sunday at the U.S. Cellular Arena .

The following individuals from Greenfield are among the more than 3,500 prospective candidates for degree who took part in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee commencement exercises Sunday at the U.S. Cellular Arena .

Gov. Scott Walker's administration would gain broad authority to sell state property - including prisons, highways, heating plants and university dormitories - under a plan legislators will take up Tuesday.

Newly sworn in and attending her first board meeting, Social Development Commissioner Magda G. Peck listened for more than an hour as the commission discussed and debated a slate of issues including the hiring of a search firm to find a new CEO, where to hold the annual meeting and how to elect a new executive committee for the anti-poverty agency.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig encouraged graduates of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Sunday to "have faith in the power of possibilities" and to push for change.

A new national campaign aimed at improving the perceptions about public housing has been launched and features a Milwaukee resident as an example of someone who is succeeding.

Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to freeze student tuition at University of Wisconsin System campuses for the next two years would mark the first two-year tuition freeze for the four-year campuses in the 42-year history of the UW System.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee must give a job applicant veteran's preference despite the fact the Navy discharged him for bad conduct, the state Court of Appeals ruled Thursday .

College seniors are picking up their caps and gowns, going down bucket lists of last-minute photos they want to take as souvenirs, and preparing for spring graduation ceremonies this weekend at several public and private universities and colleges.

A proposal to preserve some historic buildings in Wauwatosa by converting them into a charter school, with the nearby grounds set aside for construction of nearly 200 apartments, has won approval from the city Historic Preservation Commission.

Liqiang Yang received his B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2004 and obtained an M.S. degree in Materials Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2007.

Scott Emmons has been named dean of the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee . Emmons, a professor of music education, joined the UWM faculty in 1992.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee last week released a deeply concerning study about incarceration in the state.

A possible extended-stay hotel at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Innovation Campus development in Wauwatosa received a preliminary recommendation for approval Monday from county officials.

An article Sunday about filmmakers with ties to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's film department at this year's Cannes International Film Festival misspelled "Confessions of an Alcoholic" filmmaker Scott Holewinski 's last name as Hoewinski.

I have never taken off my objective reporter's hat before. But having seen "One Night With Janis Joplin" at the Milwaukee Rep, I had to speak up as a Milwaukean and a theater lover.

Mr. Rick, 51, died in a Milwaukee hospital, where he was admitted Saturday after collapsing at his daughter's dance recital at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, said Bernard J. "Jerry" Allen, executive director.

To help better predict where and when spring thunderstorms will rip across Colorado's Front Range and the adjacent High Plains, researchers are launching a major field project this week with high-flying aircraft and fine-grained computer simulations.