Category — Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Scheduled highway construction closures Sunday night in the airport spur have been canceled because construction crews have finished work earlier in the weekend.

State and local officials will gather Monday to reopen the south side Milwaukee welfare office known as Robles Center at S. 9th and Mitchell streets.

Gas prices have started to rise and the national average could reach $3 per gallon nationally by Memorial Day, according to price analysts. Prices at Milwaukee gas pumps have mirrored the national price rise.

The latest episode of racial “Gotcha!” comes courtesy of Milwaukee club owner Mike Kozak, who runs Martini Mike’s. Kozak used the N-word in front of a group of African-American customers and performers during a comedy show.

Three out of every four Milwaukee County babies who suffocated in their sleep or died of SIDS in 2007 and 2008 were sleeping with an adult or with another child, according to a first-of-its kind analysis of infant fatalities.

Madison - The Legislature’s budget committee is considering whether to expand a program that helps pay the funeral and burial expenses of low-income Wisconsin residents.

Eight people who have been patients at Aurora St. Luke’s South Shore in Cudahy over the past three to four weeks have been diagnosed with Legionnaire’s disease, a form of pneumonia caused by waterborne bacteria, according to Adam Beeson, an Aurora spokesman.

An 18-year-old man was shot in the chest around 10:40 p.m. Friday in the 1500 block of S. 12th St., according to Milwaukee Police Capt. Jerome O’Leary.

After being charged with fraud in a Florida case, two-time felon Richard Incandela says he hopes to prove soon that he does not owe any money to a Wisconsin Christian school that claims he defrauded it.

A tanker truck carrying thousands of gallons of diesel fuel rolled over in Kenosha County, WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) reports.

Authorities are trying to determine why a West Allis woman died Thursday in a parked vehicle at a St. Francis shopping center.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters who exposed the dangers of the widely used chemical bisphenol A and the lagging regulation of its use have won the Scripps Howard Foundation award for public service reporting.

Gas prices have started their typical spring march higher and could reach $3 per gallon nationally by the end of May, according to price analysts.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sports Show opens at noon today. A schedule in today’s Journal Sentinel listed the wrong time. The show opens at 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. You can find more information on the show at our Sports Show web site.

The two men charged with four counts of first-degree intentional homicide, arson and possession of a firearm by a felon in connection with the deaths of Rachel Thompson, her two young children and another woman pleaded not guilty Friday during a preliminary hearing.

MILWAUKEE COUNTYUWM plans tuition forum, police review

Greenfield aldermen will consider a resolution passed last week by the West Allis Common Council that calls on the Legislature not to adopt mandates that the city has to pay for, such as expansion of employee health insurance benefits.

A Milwaukee County sheriff’s sergeant accused of leaving his post at Mitchell International Airport to retrieve a dead deer for venison could be suspended, according to county documents.

Part of me - the part that’s been writing tuition checks for years to the University of Wisconsin for my kids - wanted to join in the protest at UWM over the cost of a college education. But I for sure would not be climbing any rain gutters to get to the chancellor.

For the students, this weekend is the culmination of countless hours of after-school work to design robots that can play a complex version of soccer - the challenge issued this year by the FIRST organization.

Greendale - A proposal to add 90 units of housing for senior citizens near Southridge Mall was approved Wednesday by the city Plan Commission.

Foggy conditions Wednesday night seem to have delayed some Thursday morning flights at Mitchell International Airport.

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker said Thursday that he favors splitting Milwaukee Public Schools into smaller school districts.

Greenfield - Greenfield aldermen will consider a resolution passed last week by the West Allis Common Council that calls on the Legislature not to adopt any unfunded mandates that the city has to pay for, such as expansion of employee health insurance benefits.

Dates and times have been set for three public appearances by Milton Creagh, a nationally known motivational speaker who is being brought to the Milwaukee area for the second time in six weeks to talk about drug abuse.

The Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex comes under fire in a federal report for failing to protect a 22-year-old patient who became pregnant after sexual contact with another patient.

When a group of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students clashed with police and security outside a campus office last week, it was a reminder of the days when it was the norm for college students to protest.

Richard Petersen’s death at the age of 80 brought to a close his family’s ordeal to extract him from a legal morass brought on by severe symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. The family’s story was told Wednesday in an article in the Journal Sentinel and on JSOnline.com.

Rose Prescott, whose 6-day-old daughter suffocated on her living room couch, pleaded guilty Wednesday to child neglect resulting in death.

There’s a good chance Google runs your e-mail, knows what videos you like and tracks every query you make on the Internet. Now Milwaukee is among the cities scrambling to entice Google to become the local Internet service provider.