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A Milwaukee Army reservist says four muggers returned his belongings when they discovered his military identification. The 21-year-old college student says he was walking home from work about 1:15 a.m. Tuesday when he was pulled into an alley and told to lay face down with a gun to his neck. Four men took his wallet, $16, keys and his cell phone. But the reservist says when one of the men saw an Army ID in the wallet, he told the others to return items. He also apologized and thanked the reservist for serving. The reservist says one robber gave him...

We are marching on TMJ4 on Saturday from 2-5PM. The location is at 720 E Capitol Dr, Milwaukee, WI‎. There is street parking south of the location, just be observant of meter regulations. Signage should be tea party oriented with a focus on liberal media.

State creates or retains 8,284 jobs with stimulus funds By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel Posted: Oct. 13, 2009 2:00 p.m. Madison — Wisconsin state government has used federal economic stimulus money to create or retain 8,284 jobs in Wisconsin, mostly by saving public-sector jobs. A brief report released Tuesday by Gov. Jim Doyle provided details on money spent by state government, but did not cover funds awarded directly to local governments and the University of Wisconsin System. Those numbers will be made public later. More than 6,100 jobs for police officers, teachers and other government workers were retained...

From: Date: Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:22 AM Subject: Sunday Oct 4th, 0% Tax Increase Rally, Serb Hall 2-4PM! To: You : You are one of many people in Southeastern Wisconsin who attended the Milwaukee Tea Party and had expressed an interest in holding down taxes and holding politicians accountable for their actions. As you may know there is another battle raging in Milwaukee County that has implications for all counties in the area. We are asking for your help by inviting you to join us for a Rally and a show of force that demands that government live...

Officer, 44, shot in arm while serving search warrant on north side; police arrest 6 in house; top officials seek tougher laws to keep guns from felons Another Milwaukee police officer was shot Wednesday morning - the fourth this year - and hours later city leaders announced a drive for tougher gun laws in Wisconsin to keep firearms away from felons. The 44-year-old officer was shot in the left arm while trying to serve a search warrant at a house in the 3200 block of N. 12th St., police said. The 17-year veteran was in good condition at Froedtert Hospital...

Felons should be banned from gun stores. But until a law is passed to do that, law-abiding gun owners should boycott shops such as Badger Guns. Lawmakers have not done enough to keep felons away from gun shops, and Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn has a right to be fed up. Passing a bill to ban felons from gun stores should be common sense. And probation agents should insist that felons stay away. But as the Journal Sentinel's John Diedrich reported Sunday, felons are routinely showing up at Badger Guns in West Milwaukee. Milwaukee police staked out the store for...

Conservative pundit and best-selling author Michelle Malkin told several thousand anti-tax protesters gathered in Milwaukee on Saturday that their movement is about pushing back "against the culture of corruption in Washington." "I've never been so proud in my lifetime to be part of this angry mob," Malkin said in a fiery keynote address at a Taxpayer Tea Party event at Veterans Park along the city's lakefront. Malkin criticized political leaders and other figures, including President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, Attorney General Eric Holder, government 'czars,' "Republican sellouts" and union "thugs."

A 49-year-old man suspected in the killings of at least eight women over 21 years in Milwaukee has been charged in connection with two of the homicides, authorities announced Monday. Walter E. Ellis of Milwaukee faces two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the killings of Joyce Mims, 41, and Ouithreaun Stokes, 28, who were strangled a decade apart. Ellis was arrested around noon Saturday at a motel in Franklin, one day after authorities linked DNA from his toothbrush with samples found on Mims' and Stokes' bodies, according to a criminal complaint. Ellis could be charged this week in connection...

A 49-year-old man suspected in the killings of at least eight women over 21 years in Milwaukee has been charged in connection with two of the homicides, authorities announced Monday. Walter E. Ellis of Milwaukee faces two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the killings of Joyce Mims, 41, and Ouithreaun Stokes, 28, who were strangled a decade apart. Ellis was arrested around noon Saturday at a motel in Franklin, one day after authorities linked DNA from his toothbrush with samples found on Mims' and Stokes' bodies, according to a criminal complaint. Ellis could be charged this week in connection...

Vandals have cut off and stolen the head of the infant Jesus from a marble statue at a parish in Wauwatosa. Local police said that such vandalism is typical in the Milwaukee suburb of 45,000, and the parish estimates that repairs will cost $12,000.

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett will make his first public appearance Wednesday since being severely injured in an attack in West Allis. Barrett will make several brief remarks and take a limited number of questions at an 11:30 a.m. news conference at his home in Washington Heights, according to a statement from his chief of staff, Patrick Curley. Barrett was attacked Saturday night after leaving the Wisconsin State Fair with two of his daughters, sister and niece and answering a woman's call for help in the 8800 block of W. Orchard St. Police have identified the alleged attacker as Anthony J....

Aug. 14, 2009 A 17-year-old killed Thursday by a man he was trying to rob had been ordered to stay out of trouble in March after he pleaded guilty to taking a woman’s car on a joy ride. Devin Ollie was supposed to participate in a substance abuse treatment program, stay in school or hold down a job and perform 20 hours of community service, according to a deferred prosecution agreement he signed March 23. Less than a month later, Ollie tested positive for THC, according to a July 11 letter from a juvenile justice program that was monitoring him....

enlarge photo Kenneth J. Whitaker more photos Kenneth J. Whitaker Close Two men died Tuesday after they were shot while trying to rob a convenience store on Milwaukee's north side, police said. Both men were armed and wearing masks and gloves when they entered the store at N. 12th and W. Chambers streets about 10:45 a.m., Milwaukee police Capt. Edith Hudson said. The men announced the robbery but were then shot by a customer or customers, who ran from the store, Hudson said. No arrests have been made in connection with the case, she said. A man identified by family...

A 19-year-old Milwaukee man has been charged in the death of his 17-year-old partner in an armed robbery. Police say his partner was fatally shot by one of the pair's intended victims last week. Damien A. Cole faces charges of felony murder, as well as being party to the crimes of armed robbery and attempted armed robbery. If convicted of felony murder, he faces up to 55 years in prison. According to the criminal complaint, a 23-year-old man had met his girlfriend at a bus stop to walk her home after she finished her job early Thursday at a Water...

Here is a video report on the news that Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was beaten by a man with a metal pipe last night near the State Fair location. Barrett was attempting to assist a woman involved in a domestic dispute by calling 911, when the man came at him. He was beaten about the head, and is in the hospital in stable condition. The attacker is still at large. . . . . (Watch Video)

A 20-year-old Wisconsin man accused of attacking the mayor of Milwaukee with a metal pipe has been arrested, police said Sunday. Mayor Tom Barrett was in stable condition Sunday at a Milwaukee-area hospital after he was attacked the night before at the Wisconsin State Fair in nearby West Allis, police said. Barrett was leaving the event with his family when he heard a woman crying for help, police said. When Barrett began calling 911, the man who had been attacking the woman charged at him and began battering him with a metal pipe, police said. "He not only risked serious...

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was recovering Sunday morning after he was beaten with a pipe after leaving the Wisconsin State Fair with his family Saturday night. The mayor is said to be in good condition this morning. Patrick Curley, Barrett's chief of staff said the mayor was resting at the hospital Sunday morning. Although he could not give details on the injuries, Curley said there were "no signs of major trauma." "He's exhausted obviously, but he's resting," Curley said. "All his vitals are good - he can carry on brief conversations." The incident occurred about 10:45 p.m. in the 8800...

I was involved in a very minor fender bender on 94 West in Milwaukee on Friday. The responding officer took down my driver's license information (even though I was a passenger) and statement (the other car drove off and I gave a partial plate) Today I get 7 mailings from 6 different law firms about my accident, my friend who was the driver received 8 mailings. As the Milwaukee Sheriff's Department is the only entity that knows about it, they must have sold my information to the law firms in the area. Can they do this? I also gave my...

A 13-year-old Milwaukee girl is accused of fatally stabbing her step-grandfather because he poured the milk for her cereal down the drain. Authorities say the bloodshed was the result of a long feud between Robert Moon, 48, said Labrina Brown. After Moon dumped the milk - saying another child in the house had to be fed first - Brown grabbed a paring knife and stabbed him in the neck, police said. "She stabbed me, she stabbed me in the neck," Moon said as he collapsed Saturday. Cops said Brown told a neighbor: "I stabbed him! I cut his throat! He's...

Video being promoted online at aging.senate.gov and through emails from Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl's office to constituents. His take on healthcare "reform."

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) has again renewed his calls for repealing statewide preemption in Wisconsin so that the city can enact stricter, more outrageous gun control laws. Wisconsin passed its preemption statute in 1995 to prevent local municipalities from passing their own gun control laws. The creation of new laws would do little, if anything, to prevent violent crime and would make it difficult to keep track of a multitude of different laws across the state. Please contact Mayor Barrett TODAY and respectfully let him know you oppose this attack on our Second Amendment rights. The Mayor can be...

Employing a rarely used provision of city code, Milwaukee officials are poised to take two commercial lots from one owner and then sell them to another developer who has made campaign contributions to a key alderman. If the land acquisition goes through, it will dash the dreams of Rafael Cetina, whose family bought the land in 2002 with visions of building a restaurant and club that would serve spicy Mayan flavors paying tribute to his heritage on the Yucatan Peninsula. The process of eminent domain is almost never used by the city to acquire commercial real estate. The last time...

MILWAUKEE - Police band scanner traffic indicates that two Milwaukee Police officers have been shot near 2nd and Walker on the city's south side.

Milwaukee is home to America’s most vibrant school-choice program: More than 20,000 students participate, almost all of them minorities. They have made academic gains and boast higher graduation rates than their peers in public schools. They even save money for taxpayers. Inevitably, Democrats in the state capital are trying to eviscerate the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. They’ve wanted to gut school choice for years, at the behest of teacher-union patrons who believe education should be a government monopoly. Until recently, Republicans have stood in the way. That changed following last year’s elections. Now, for the first time since the advent...

Jun. 2, 2009 6:06 a.m. | South Milwaukee - The Common Council tonight will consider an ordinance that would allow police to write tickets if people carry guns into businesses that post signs saying no guns are allowed. Businesses already have the right under state law to regulate whether customers can openly carry guns into their businesses, said Police Chief Ann Wellens. The new ordinance would give police the authority to write tickets to violators, she said.

Pfister Hotel Has Some Strange Happenings MILWAUKEE, WI (KTVI-FOX2now.com) - When the Cardinals travel north to tangle with the Milwaukee Brewers, they stay at a downtown Milwaukee landmark known for being ornate, historic and perhaps haunted. Professional baseball players have plenty of eerie tales about the Pfister Hotel, and, from Brendan Ryan to Manager Tony LaRussa, the Cardinals are no exception.

GREENFIELD -- The picnic looks a lot like many others you might see on Memorial Day. Except at this one, many people are carrying a gun on their belts. Greg Plautz set up the picnic. He's a college senior and is affiliated with the opencarry.org organization. Plautz hopes the picnic will help encourage people to understand Wisconsin's gun laws, saying, "[the picnic is] to just further the acceptance of open carry and allow people to come together with a like cause." This 'open carry picnic' is one of several that have occurred since Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen said...

WITI-TV, MILWAUKEE - Cookouts and picnics are a Memorial Day tradition. But it's rare when the host invites guests to bring their licensed firearms in addition to food. FOX 6's Bob Moore takes you to the first open-carry event in Milwaukee County.

NEW YORK (AP) — A Roman Catholic archbishop who resigned in 2002 over a sex and financial scandal involving a man has written a memoir that describes how he struggled with being gay. Archbishop Rembert Weakland, former head of the Milwaukee archdiocese, "is up front about his homosexuality in a church that preferred to ignore gays," Publisher's Weekly wrote in a review Monday. The book, "A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop," is set to be released in June and is described by the publisher as a self-examination by Weakland of his "psychological, spiritual and sexual...

MILWAUKEE, WI - Concerns about swine flu has caused a Catholic school in Milwaukee to close both its campuses. St. Anthony School says the closure is strictly precautionary. No probable or confirmed cases have been associated with the parochial school.Assistant Principal Holly Cerveny says the campuses will be closed Thursday and Friday, affecting about 1,050 students. Another Catholic school, St. Adalbert School, has twice as many absences as usual. Principal Julia Hutchinson says none of their children are suspected to have the flu. But parents are being more cautious - both in keeping sick kids home and sending healthy kids...

Apr. 29, 2009 2:54 p.m. | New claims for unemployment insurance in Wisconsin are running 76% ahead of where they were a year ago at this time. A report Wednesday from the state Department of Workforce Development showed 417,190 initial applications filed through last week. In 2008, it took until early August to reach that level. Continued claims from people who have been out of work for longer periods also are about 76% higher than the same time last year.

Some in the media and other anti-gun emotionalists are tearing apart Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen for his – somewhat belated, but very correct – advisory opinion on open carry. What provoked the open carry hysteria? Van Hollen simply reminded people about a settled fact. He reiterated a point that Jim Doyle and the state Supreme Court once freely recognized. He repeated the state Constitution. That’s controversial? It’s not illegal to carry a firearm openly in Wisconsin in and of itself, Van Hollen said. Cops can’t slap someone with a disorderly conduct arrest solely because they are carrying a firearm...

An issue blew up last week that had me thinking of the line from Willie Nelson’s and Merle Haggard’s Poncho and Lefty, “He wore his gun outside his pants for all the honest world to feel.” The issue is that of open carry, which has been brewing for years. First, I must issue a disclaimer. I grew up in Texas. It was not uncommon for me to openly strap a sidearm to my belt when going to practice shooting. I also obtained a license to carry concealed and almost always carried a pistol with me. Fortunately, I never had to...

Monday, Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen issued an advisory legal opinion stating that openly carrying a firearm was not, in and of itself, a basis for a charge of disorderly conduct. This morning, Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn announced that regardless of what the Attorney General says, his officers are under orders "to take down anyone with a firearm". By that he says he means that "officers seeing anybody carrying a gun will put them on the ground, take the gun away and then decide if the person has a right to carry it." Ed, for God's sake, shut...

Milwaukee, Wisconsin Chief of Police Ed Flynn is hopefully going to be out of a job soon. This is a good thing. Take a deep breath and read this excerpt from a recent Associated Press release. MADISON (AP) — Milwaukee’s police chief said today he’ll go on telling his officers to take down anyone with a firearm despite Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen’s finding that people can carry guns openly if they do it peacefully. Please take the time to read the entire piece (JPFO copy) This is very important information for any gun owner. Chief Flynn then goes on...

In these tough economic times, people are cutting back left and right, looking for areas to scrimp and save. Five-course meals are giving way to super value meals, and at home, name-brand groceries are being replaced by generics. But for beer drinkers, replacing your Berghoff with "The Beast" may not be such a great value proposition. Unless your idea of a good beer is anything warm and foamy, served in a plastic cup at frat party, you simply won't stand for bad beer -- recession or otherwise. Fortunately, our own state produces a number of good, value-driven beers. And even...

<p>MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A federal magistrate Wednesday ordered that a man accused of trying to board a plane with $44,000 in cash and nine blank passports be held without bail.</p> <p>The man, identified by federal authorities as Ousman Sillah, faces charges of possessing fake identification and legitimate identification to be used fraudulently.</p>

JS Online: Milwaukee Democrat U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore is seeking nearly a half-million dollars for the project in a $410 billion spending bill that is moving through Congress. The funding is among $7.4 million in earmark projects that she is championing in Washington this year.

MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee woman accused of filing fraudulent voter-registration forms has been charged with one count of election fraud. A criminal complaint released to the media Tuesday says 19-year-old Latoya T. Lewis turned in multiple forms with the same voter name on them.

MJS reader forum question: What would you do if your neighbor was openly carrying a handgun while planting a tree in his yard?

What do you want to see President Barack Obama do in his first 100 days in office? Here's how 20 first-graders at Hartford University School, a public school tucked into the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus, answered that question. There probably won't be much talk at the White House in coming weeks about better prices for toys, but Obama could certainly do worse than listen to some of the ideas - or to keep in mind why some answered the way they did. 1. Give us more jobs. 2. Lower the price of gas. 3. Give us more money. 4. Love...

Maxine Allen lived quietly with her husband Frank for years in their Fox Point home, and after Frank died in 2004, she rarely was seen outside the house. She took the bus to her hairdresser and accepted help from a neighbor, who took her grocery shopping. Maxine Allen always used coupons, buying only sale and generic items, said neighbor Karen Wahlberg. Frugal and independent, Allen "was a loner. Just stayed at home, day in or day out," Wahlberg said. "I thought she was penniless." Allen, who died at age 85 in February 2008, left an estate worth $3.1 million -...

Thursday January 8, 2009 Milwaukee to Open Nation's First Homosexual Middle School By Kathleen GilbertMILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, January 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Milwaukee's Alliance School, one of the few officially "gay-friendly"  high schools in the country, has been given clearance to extend their pro-homosexual curriculum to sixth, seventh, and eighth graders.The proposal went through easily last month, with the city's board of education unanimously approving it by default, as it was not pulled for further discussion or a vote.  Tina Owen, Lead Teacher of Alliance, said they would be accepting applications from middle-school-age children for the 2009-10 school year immediately.Marty...

The 71 homicides in 2008 in Milwaukee represent the fewest killings in the city since 1985, a decrease officials attributed in part to improved cooperation among law enforcement agencies and policing focused on the most violent neighborhoods. Although nonfatal shootings also declined from 2007, they accounted for more than 400 victims, a reminder that the homicide total could easily have been much higher. Homicides fell 32.4% from 2007, when 105 people were killed, according to Police Department data. Police do not count vehicle homicides or those ruled justified. "It's an amazing drop," Mayor Tom Barrett said. "It's something I'm very,...

The Milwaukee Public School System will expand the services provided by its gay-friendly high school and apparently become the nation's first school system to create a gay-friendly middle school. At a meeting two weeks ago, a subcommittee of Milwaukee's Board of Education unanimously approved the Alliance School's proposal to serve sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. The proposal gained unanimous approval from the full board by default when the item was not pulled for further discussion or a vote at last night's meeting. Alliance School lead teacher Tina Owen said the public charter school will begin accepting new applicants eligible for...

With the economy riding a downward-arrow, and bailout talk getting more airplay then the Beatles did when they invaded in 1964, it may be time to trek to your friendly neighborhood office supply chain and stock up on ink jet cartridges and follow the lead of two Milwaukee, Wisconsin neighborhoods – that is, if the people there decide to follow through on a plan that will have eyebrows flexing John Belushi-style.The plan?To take matters into their own hands.As they see it … When the going gets tough, the tough print their own money.Really.Funny money discussions are set to take place...

They may be talking funny money, but it's not funny business. Residents from the Milwaukee neighborhoods of Riverwest and East Side are scheduled to meet Wednesday to discuss printing their own money. The idea is that the local cash could be used at neighborhood stores and businesses, thus encouraging local spending. The result, supporters hope, would be a bustling local economy, even as the rest of the nation deals with a recession. "You have all these people who have local currency, and they're going to spend it at local stores," said Sura Faraj, a community organizer who is helping spearhead...

They may be talking funny money, but it's not funny business. Residents from the Milwaukee neighborhoods of Riverwest and East Side are scheduled to meet Wednesday to discuss printing their own money. The idea is that the local cash could be used at neighborhood stores and businesses, thus encouraging local spending. The result, supporters hope, would be a bustling local economy, even as the rest of the nation deals with a recession. "You have all these people who have local currency, and they're going to spend it at local stores," said Sura Faraj, a community organizer who is helping spearhead...

<p>The former news director of WTMJ reveals how talk show hosts like Charlie Sykes and Jeff Wagner work to get us angry.</p> <p>I first got into journalism because I thought I could make a difference.</p> <p>I wrote for the school newspaper and did “news” reports on a radio station a friend and I started at my high school in Springfield, Mo. I got my first professional job at age 20, while still in college, at a local radio station’s news department. Three years later, I became a news director, and 12 years after that, in 1995, I was recruited to move to Milwaukee to become news director at WTMJ, one of the largest and most successful news/talk radio stations in America.</p>

Mr. Sandvick's unit released a 67-page report on what it called an "illegal organized attempt to influence the outcome of (the 2004) election in the state of Wisconsin" -- a swing state whose last two presidential races were decided by less than 12,000 votes. The report found that between 4,600 and 5,300 more votes were counted in Milwaukee than the number of voters recorded as having cast ballots. Absentee ballots were cast by people living elsewhere; ineligible felons not only voted but worked at the polls; transient college students cast improper votes; and homeless voters possibly voted more than once....