Milwaukee County News

For nearly four terrifying hours, Marcy Macemon lived through a parent's worst nightmare.

Milwaukee County is losing hundreds of thousands of dollars each year because of stolen library books.

Serial rapist Rodney Washington - a.k.a. John Doe #5 - was sentence to serve 100 years in prison Tuesday by Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Wagner.

JUL 16 - T wenty-seven defendants have been charged in a drug conspiracy case, according to a criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

Twenty-seven people have been charged in federal court in a drug conspiracy case, U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic announced Tuesday afternoon in Milwaukee.

A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court says a sheriff's deputy acted legally when he searched a suspect and found heroin in his pockets.

MONDAY, July 14, 2008, 11:33 a.m. By Linda Spice UPDATE: Two more sought in July 4 slayings James R. Washington Milwaukee police today asked for the public's help in arresting two men suspected in a July 4 ...

Hundreds of people looking to fulfill a childhood dream or win better job security submitted applications for firefighting positions Saturday during an open house - ' the first time in five years the Milwaukee ...

Legal Action of Wisconsin is suing the state and Milwaukee County for not processing public benefits fast enough or not processing them at all.

Gerhard Witte, the 70-year-old physician charged with slitting his former wife's throat, today pleaded not guilty and not guilty by mental disease or defect.

The U.S. Coast Guard searched Lake Michigan after a 911 report of a plane crash off Oak Creek this afternoon.

' Storms blew through the area Monday morning, taking down trees and knocking out power.

The Associated Press 5 comments Robert P. Farnam is accused of faking heart attacks to avoid paying restaurant bills and cab fares.

Milwaukee County deputies have closed several lanes of eastbound Interstate 894 after a semitrailer crashed and damaged a 7-foot chunk of the road's median.

' The Milwaukee County Zoo honored the armed forces over the holiday weekend with Operation Freedom.

A Milwaukee Country club is increasing security after some golfers and their caddies were robbed at gunpoint on the golf course.

The ghosts in Milwaukee County's pension scandal are speaking out, their words carefully combed through by lawyers for a multinational financial firm hoping to defeat a $100 million county lawsuit.

The sheriff in Kenosha County has a message for motorcycle riders who violate state law by modifying their exhaust systems to make them louder: Pipe down or pay up.

Milwaukee parks officials have hired a team of border collies to keep E. coli-spreading gulls away from Bradford Beach.

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge John Franke on Thursday dismissed a convicted sex offender's lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of City of Franklin's ordinances that severely restrict where he and ...