Milwaukee News

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele came together to help break ground on a new business center in the city.

MILWAUKEE More of America's population is gravitating to big cities and Milwaukee is no exception.

A judge in Milwaukee has denied a Navy veteran's several attempts to dismiss an unusual civil suit seeking enforcement of a Japanese judgment that he raped a woman there in 2002.

North side resident Carol Washington says, "They're horrible. Everywhere I go it's, 'bam bam.'" UWM student Jackson Westover adds, "It stops the music even sometimes." Sometimes it's even worse.

Kevin Fischer is a veteran broadcaster, the recipient of over 150 major journalism awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, the Wisconsin Associated Press, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association, and others.

Wisconsin veterans groups and public broadcasters are trying to gather photos for each of the 1,244 state residents whose names are on the Vietnam War Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. People will be able to learn about the project and find out how to help collect photos of Wisconsin service members who died in Vietnam.

Following the success of the 2011-2012 world tour celebrating the 35th Anniversary of his multi-platinum selling live album Frampton Comes Alive!, Peter Frampton is back on the road with Frampton's Guitar Circus.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel announced its 2013 Best Places to Work Awards finalists, which included The Wisconsin Group, an office of New England Financial, as one of the Best Places to work.

Law enforcement officials, including federal agents, swarmed a downtown Milwaukee building Wednesday and took into custody a man who had injured himself and had to be rescued from a second-story landing.

Allison Silveira is from the Midwest but studied meteorology for fifteen years at the Univesity of Oklahoma.

Ministry Health Care says it is eliminating about 2 percent of its workforce due to declining business and a reduction in Medicare payments because of federal budget cuts forced by the so-called sequestration.

Tony Tagliavia of MPS said Rufus King International School was given the ACT's College and Career Transition Award for high schools Wednesday in Washington, D.C. The school was nominated by Gov.

Music director Edo de Waart will lead the orchestra in a program of Johannes Brahms' first and fourth symphonies Friday through Sunday and then wrap up with Edward Elgar's "The Dream of Gerontius" the following weekend.

MILWAUKEE A private F-B-I ceremony was held yesterday to honor two agents who died in a helicopter training flight one of whom started his career in Wisconsin.

It was a deadly two-mile long tornado that ripped through Oklahoma and killed nine children.

One suspect in a Milwaukee bank heist that netted more than a quarter-million dollars is expected to plead guilty to his role in the crime next month.

Online Retailer and Official Jeweler for Miss Universe, Diamond Nexus, is working with Independence First to raise money and awareness for the disabled community of Milwaukee.

"I've gotten several emails this morning, phone calls from folks who are trained through the Salvation Army's Disaster program and who are now waiting," Thuecks said.

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 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed earlier this week in Milwaukee was identified Tuesday by police as Marvin J. Cottrell.