Category — Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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.

West Allis - This man, Police Chief Mike Jungbluth and a number of other city employees will get their heads shaved to raise money for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a California organization that funds childhood cancer research.

The National Weather Service has issued a dense fog advisory for all of southeast Wisconsin that will last until 9 a.m. Thursday.

For all Ingmar Viohl knew, his wife could be bleeding to death. But getting help to her side proved harder than he ever imagined.

A Hmong gang accused of operating across state lines, selling an array of drugs and shooting rivals by the dozens has been indicted in federal court in Milwaukee, according to court documents.

Milwaukee residents could see significant changes in the way they take out their trash in the next few years, a public works official said Tuesday.

Milwaukee County elected officials would get smaller pensions, under a plan endorsed Tuesday by a County Board panel.

New financial projections released Tuesday suggest the sunset year for the Miller Park stadium sales tax will be between 2016 and 2018, at least two years later than originally thought.

After the morning fog burns off we’ll have another nice day in the mid-40s with plenty of sun, according to the forecast from Brian Gotter over at TMJ4. The rest of the week, though, looks mild, cloudy and rainy, according to the National Weather Service. That should get rid of most of that snowpack, right?

Chicago developers have formally pulled the plug on a proposed $75 million apartment, classroom and retail development on N. 6th and W. State streets in downtown Milwaukee near Milwaukee Area Technical College, Milwaukee County supervisors were told Monday.

Mitchell International Airport recorded its busiest January ever with 697,495 passengers passing through Milwaukee’s airport, making it one of the fastest growing facilities in the nation.

Wisconsin public schools lost out in an “American Idol”-type national competition known as Race to the Top that found our educational system about as unworthy of recognition as that “Pants on the Ground” guy.

More than 80 residences along the Kinnickinnic River targeted for demolition in the next five years as part of a $49.9 million flood management project would not become mounds of debris to be trucked to landfills, under a first-ever salvage operation proposed by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.

Six people escaped a house fire in the 1600 block of W. Locust St. on Monday night, a Milwaukee Fire Department official said.

This morning’s dense fog has caused a couple 2-hour school delays in Ozaukee and Fond du lac Counties. You can check a listing of all delays at TMJ4.

A New London soldier greeted by a throng of well-wishers Saturday upon returning from Afghanistan now has some questions to answer for the Army.

Milwaukee Common Council President Willie Hines Jr. joined business and labor leaders Tuesday in urging state lawmakers to approve legislation expanding the Southeastern Regional Transit Authority and authorizing a 0.5% Milwaukee County sales tax for transit.

Whitefish Bay — The Whitefish Bay Business Improvement District has recommended hiring an agency, rather than an individual, to be the district’s executive director.

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Three people from Mexico who were in the country illegally have been charged in federal court with making and selling fake identity documents, according to court documents.

The Ronald McDonald House near Children’s Hospital in Wauwatosa would at least double in size under a $5 million to $8 million expansion plan unveiled Monday.

Johnny Kimble spent a career helping others address employment discrimination at the state’s Equal Rights Division in Milwaukee. But it didn’t save him from becoming a victim of illegal race and gender bias within that very agency.

Wauwatosa police will interview a man on Sunday afternoon after a 14-year-old girl said she was abducted by the man on Saturday and sexually assaulted in an apartment near N. 111th Street and W. Meinecke Ave. The girl, a resident of Menomonee Falls, was able to get away from the apartment and call police. The man was arrested Saturday night by police while he was driving in his car near the …

We may get a sprinkle or two today, according to Michael Fish at TMJ4, but we’re in better shape than they are in Arizona. The Brewers Cactus League game with the Reds was canceled today because of rain in the desert.

The Department of Natural Resources has issued an air quality alert for particle pollution for southeastern Wisconsin and much of the rest of the state. The alert for fine particle pollution started at 8 a.m. Sunday and will run through 11 p.m. Monday. The state’s air quality index is forecast to reach the orange level, which is considered unhealthy for people with heart or lung disease, asthma …

While no closures are planned for tonight in the Zoo Interchange emergency bridge replacement project, numerous closures are scheduled for this week while crews set steel beams for the new bridges. Additional law enforcement officers will patrol the detour routes, according to the Department of Transportation. Construction is dependent on weather. For more information motorists can call a 24 …

Work in the Mitchell Interchange will close northbound I-94 at W. College Ave. Sunday night, from 11 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. Two major connecting ramps on the south side freeway system also will be closed, while crews prepare to shift traffic to accommodate coming construction. Motorists on I-94 northbound will be routed east on W. College Ave., and return to the freeway via W. Howard Ave.