Milwaukee News

Even though we're months away from pristinely green fairways seeing the light of day, many golfers in Southeast Wisconsin already have their sights set on the 2014 golf season.

The former operator of Lakefront Brewery Palm Garden is taking the concept he developed there to one of his other restaurants.

A 30-year-old Milwaukee man has been charged with kidnapping a girl who had gone missing in November and had become the subject of a public appeal for help in finding her.

The mother of a baby whose skull was fractured after police confronted his father at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin last month was in the hospital's pharmacy when she got a frantic phone call, she said in an interview with the Journal Sentinel.

Dennis Buford, who tortured his girlfriend's 2-year-old son for more than a year and whose abuse of the boy is among the worse cases that child maltreatment experts have ever seen, was sentenced Monday to 18 years in prison and 10 years of extended supervision.

WE WILL GET TO THE SNOW IN JUST A MINUTE. THE MILWAUKEE MAYOR IS IN A HOSPITAL EATING TREATED FOR EXHAUSTION.

More than 100 salters are on Milwaukee city streets this morning, and more than 60 garbage trucks have been converted into plows as cleanup from Sunday's snow is underway.

It's one thing Monday to find freeways that have been cleared and may be slightly slick, but nowhere near as treacherous as Sunday.

A mandate to improve fire safety at nursing homes has led to beefed-up protection for some of Wisconsin's most vulnerable residents.

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is spending his 60th birthday overnight in a hospital where he is being treated for exhaustion following a 20-kilometer run.

For those who shop till they drop, the retail areas centered on Blue Mound and Mayfair roads in Milwaukee's western suburbs are shaping up as the promised land.

A spokeswoman for Wheaton Franciscan hospitals in Racine and Franklin says they received 40 patients with injuries from motor vehicle crashes over about three hours Sunday.

State Sen. Kathleen Vinehout was injured in a multi-vehicle accident in the Milwaukee area, according to her campaign Facebook page.

The German vocal group Calmus will sing a "Christmas a Cappella" concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center, 901 15th Ave., South Milwaukee.

For those who shop till they drop, the retail areas centered on Blue Mound and Mayfair roads in Milwaukee's western suburbs are shaping up as the promised land.

Two men from the Milwaukee area are in custody as suspects in an armed robbery and shooting at 12:50 a.m. Sunday at a Fond du Lac County residence.

LATER TODAY.... A HILARIOUS HOLIDAY PERFORMANCE MAKES ITS WAY TO MILWAUKEE. IT'S THE SECOND CITY'S NUTCRACKING HOLIDAY REVUE.

For those who shop till they drop, the retail areas centered on Blue Mound and Mayfair roads in Milwaukee's western suburbs are shaping up as the promised land.

Agency said failures of Milwaukee operation were isolated, but the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel found similar issues in at least six cities nationwide - targeting the mentally disabled, encouraging crimes and more.

When Socialist Worker magazine recently posited Madison as the most "racist" city in the United States, conservatives justifiably snickered with glee at the calumnious award.