Milwaukee County News

Although Gov. Scott Walker has hired out gay staffers, including two who were convicted of crimes they committed while working for him as Milwaukee County Executive, he strongly opposes marriage equality.

The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department says the average PAC of the offenders was 0.16. Two of the people arrested were repeat offenders.

Two years after lawmakers unsuccessfully tried to enlarge the state budget by creating a privately run bail bonds system in Wisconsin, the controversial idea could be returning.

Scott Stenger, lobbyist for the Tavern League of Wisconsin , says that tightening up the standard for drunken driving is part of a "prohibitionist agenda." Stenger actually gets paid for uttering such nonsense.

Just for the fun of it, let's skip ahead and think about what would happen if Gregory Thornton departed from his job as superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools.

A Milwaukee nurse who billed Medicaid for in-home care she never provided has been sentenced to serve 100 days in jail as a condition of 18 months of probation.

The Milwaukee bra ban that was in effect because the city considered "bras as a fire hazard" has been withdrawn.

Cameras from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation are showing lines of vehicles snaking north into Milwaukee County from the 7-Mile Road exit.

Big cuts to the County Board's budget don't start until next year, and a 50% pay cut for supervisors won't happen until 2016, under a measure just approved by the Legislature.

An eleborate mock crash scene set up Thursday morning at Wauwatosa East High School was only the beginning of an intensive two-day course of events designed to drive home the danger of mixing alcohol and automobiles.

More than 900 WE Energies customers are without power in Wauwatosa. The outages started around 9 p.m. Tuesday, around the time around a severe thunderstorm warning was issued for Milwaukee County .

The Alexis Patterson 11th Anniversary Wreath ceremony was held on May 3, 2013 at Hi-Mount Boulevard Community School where young Alexis was last seen 11 years ago.

Geneva McKinley, 49, was sentenced Thursday to five days in jail as a condition of 18 months of probation.

According to Department of Veterans Affairs census estimates, there are approximately 13 million American veterans and their single surviving spouses age 65 and older.

"The initial investigation reveals that a 63 year old female of West Allis was found deceased inside a common hallway to the apartment building," said Chief Charles Padgett.

The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office said that a wrong-way driver was in a hit-and-run crash Friday morning.

The Milwaukee Public Museum is seeking a multimillion-dollar infusion from county taxpayers to cover its unfunded pension liability and to extend the county's commitment for an annual operating subsidy.

The Baraboo News-Republic says it's raising questions about whether the salamanders should be moved elsewhere when the old plant is destroyed.

The 36-hour shut-down of I-94 at Rawson Ave. this weekend is expected to create queues of three miles or more.

Issue: A reader asked me to confirm whether Milwaukee County Parks will expand the Currie Park Dog Exercise Area just west and south of Mayfair Road and Capitol Drive.