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In an age when most potential presidential contenders are millionaires, Walker may end up being the closest thing to a middle-class presidential candidate that voters will see in 2016.

A Milwaukee businessman uttered a racial slur to describe President Barack Obama during a news conference Wednesday in Waukesha City Hall that was organized by Wisconsin business leaders as part of a national call for immigration reform.

Mary Gundrum, 20 weeks pregnant, was excited when an ultrasound revealed that she was going to have a baby boy. Then she looked closer and said, “What’s that in front of his face?” “That,” the doctor replied somberly, “is a problem.” The news was grim. The fetus had an encephalocele, a rare disorder in which part of the brain was exposed, covered in skin, outside the head. In this case, the brain was growing down into the roof of the mouth and protruding onto the face.

MILWAUKEE - Just as residents of Southeast Wisconsin finished pumping water out of their basements from last week's storms, mother nature struck again. Thursday's storms dumped several inches of rain in just a few hours all across the region, prompting tornado watches and warnings, power outages and lots and lots of flooding.

The Hardin jail deal is off, said a spokeswoman for the cryptic California company contracted to run the for-hire hoosegow, now two years empty. Becky Shay, spokeswoman for American Police Force, said Friday that her company withdrew its offer to operate the 464-bed facility. The announcement comes after investigative reporters revealed that APF's frontman, Serbian immigrant Michael Hilton, has a criminal record and that some APF claims about its jail proposal were bogus. The canceled deal leaves Hardin's economic development arm, Two Rivers Authority, which owns the jail, without a contractor yet again. Officials for the organization did not respond...

Washington, DC – Today FreedomWorks released an apology to leftist political organizations including MoveOn.org, the Democratic National Committee, the AFL-CIO and ACORN for our apparent ignorance of the fine art of political discourse. FreedomWorks’ August Recess Call to Action encouraged grassroots citizens to attend Congressional town hall meetings and listening sessions. We asked everyone to voice their opinions and communicate their opposition to the President’s proposed hostile takeover of the American health care system. Apparently, the very act of showing up and having an opinion is, in effect, to act like a “thug.” Opposing President Obama’s policy agenda on health...

A group of people including two off-duty firefighters and an off-duty police lieutenant rescued a woman and her two children from a burning SUV that crashed on Milwaukee's south side Sunday afternoon. Most of the rescue was filmed by a bystander. The video shows the 1992 Chevrolet Blazer on its left side near S. 22nd Place and W. Layton Ave., its back half engulfed in flames and black smoke. Two men eventually use metal pipes to break through the windshield, freeing the woman, who is a 32-year-old Tennessee resident, and her 2-year-old daughter.

Sheboygan police responding to a fight between two brothers - one wielding an ax - led to a larger problem for the pair and a girlfriend when officers discovered what they say is a marijuana grow lab and several weapons in the brothers' apartment on Sunday.

Wind Farm Interference Showing Up on Doppler Radar (NOTE: The images referenced can be seen at the link) During late 2008 and early 2009, an energy wind farm consisting of 36 turbines began operation in east central Dodge county on Butler Ridge in Herman township. This is about 2 miles east of Iron Ridge, just north of Rubicon and just south of Mayville and Theresa. The wind farm is owned by Babcock and Brown Power and was constructed by RES Americas Inc. WPPI Energy purchases about 40% (20 megawatts) of the total power generated by the Butler Ridge wind farm...

Super Tuesday, the biggest primary day of the year. 24 states making their decisions on Democratic and Republican nominations for President. But Wisconsin isn't one of those states. Apparently, Ethel Goodwin didn't get the message when she saw a Today's TMJ4 story on Super Tuesday. "We were listening to the news and they were saying that Super Tuesday, and all the state, I figured that included Wisconsin," said Goodwin. "Probably, I just misunderstood." She wasn't alone at her local polling place, 53rd Street School on Milwaukee's north side. "There were about six to 10 other people standing outside waiting to...

West Bend - When a self-described "old, fat bartender" confronted a burglar in his house early Sunday, he got the suspect in a bear hug, intending to hold him until police arrived. As they wrestled on the floor for three to five minutes, the intruder begged to be let go, appeared as if he would cry and then squirmed out of his shoes and pants before running out of the house in a hooded sweat shirt and underwear, according to reports. The cell phone he left behind in his pants helped officers identify him. Police said they found Benjamin C....

Posted: Aug. 3, 2007 Watertown - They start in many places and gather at one. Dressed in black leather, in fatigues, in jeans, and yellow "Patriot Guard Riders" armbands, they come to honor the dead. And they come to let family members know their loved one's sacrifice will not go unnoticed. On Friday, it was this small southeastern Wisconsin community mourning the loss of a native son to battle. For the men and women on Harleys, Hondas, Yamahas, Kawasakis and even a yellow scooter, their journey to Watertown to take part in Marine Cpl. Matthew Zindars' final journey was a...

It violates his rights, he says, in seeking case's dismissal By DERRICK NUNNALLY dnunnally@journalsentinel.com Posted: May 2, 2007 Pizza-delivery man Andres Vegas, who shot two people in seven months who were trying to rob him during deliveries, says the concealed-carry criminal charge against him ought to be tossed out for infringing on his constitutional rights. In a motion filed in Milwaukee County Circuit Court this week, lawyers for Vegas - he is fighting a misdemeanor charge for carrying a concealed weapon - contended that the state's concealed-weapons statute can't fairly be used against him because his job with Mona Lisa...

A stronger Mr Castro appeared defiant on a recent video Cuban President Fidel Castro has appeared in a live broadcast for the first time since falling ill last July. He was heard speaking live on the daily radio programme of his ally, the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The 80-year-old leader is believed to be suffering from diverticulitis, a weakening of the walls of the colon. He said he was "gaining ground", adding he felt he had more "energy and more strength". He was last seen in a video recording released in early February. Mr Castro's younger brother, Raul, has been...

Official convicted in travel deal She acted on own, Doyle says, but case may be election issue By STEVE SCHULTZE sschultze@journalsentienl.com Posted: June 12, 2006 A federal jury on Monday convicted a state procurement official of fixing a travel contract for a contributor to Gov. Jim Doyle's campaign, adding a potentially explosive issue to the race for governor this fall. Doyle and his top aides stressed that the two felony convictions represented an isolated instance. "It is clear that Georgia Thompson acted on her own, and that no other state employee was involved," Doyle said in a statement. "As I...

Numerous reports of tornadoes on the ground In Jefferson, Dane counties. Storm is moving toward Waukesha County ---- Tornado Warning WIC105-127-190145- /O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0036.050819T0048Z-050819T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 748 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEAST ROCK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN WALWORTH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 744 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF WHITEWATER...OR ABOUT NEAR MILTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15...

An independent review of the state of the Milwaukee Brewers released Thursday paints a portrait of a franchise that is $133.1 million in debt, and that received nearly $44 million in equity from team owners over the past 10 years yet reported a net loss from operations of $28.8 million over the same time period.The report, by a three-member panel of business leaders appointed by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, also contains a few surprises, specifically a review of the salaries paid former Brewers president and now baseball commissioner Bud Selig, his daughter, Wendy Selig-Prieb, and son-in-law Laurel Prieb....

<p>The two firefighters killed yesterday in the blaze that destroyed Ebenezer Baptist Church were longtime veterans who had faced down death in the line of duty before and who had rescued their colleagues from other fires.</p> <p>Battalion Chief Charles Brace, 55, of Brookline and firefighter Richard Stefanakis, 51, of Knoxville, had worked for the city fire department since the early 1970s knowing "the beast can take you at any time," said Joe King, president of Fire Fighters Union Local 1.</p>

In the line of duty, a hero emerges Ambush at Afghan fortress leads Brookfield man into action and, Friday, to a distinguished honor Tampa, Fla. - Maj. Mark Mitchell had come a long way from the young boy who grew up in the shadow of Milwaukee's County Stadium, watching the Brewers, rising at 4:30 a.m. to deliver the Sentinel, dreaming that one day he'd be a soldier. Now he was. And not just any soldier. A Special Forces officer, schooled in Arabic and trained to make decisions in tense, fast-changing situations when lives are on the line. On the morning...

A Canadian man has been arrested for advanced fee fraud following a sting operation instigated by a Connecticut woman fed up with receiving scam emails. Like many other people, Heide Evans was constantly barraged with dubious emails purporting to offer millions in exchange for helping to transfer vast funds from Africa. Instead of deleting these emails, she strung the fraudsters along. “Over several months, I managed to convince them I was gullible enough to go along with them, and surprise of surprises, they were stupid enough to send a messenger to see me to collect the money,” Evans told The...