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An 86-year-old woman was found unresponsive after her car struck a tree near Beloit Road. The area has a long history of speeding complaints.
No one was hurt, but the masked robber slipped away before Wauwatosa police arrived Saturday afternoon.
A 28-year-old and a 37-year-old were wounded in unrelated shootings less than an hour apart. No arrests have been made in either case.
Both victims are expected to survive after a Saturday night shooting near 42nd and Lloyd, just blocks from a fatal 2024 shooting at the same intersection.
Samella Williams may be driving a black Volkswagen Jetta after vanishing near 56th and Keefe.
A 70-year-old Reeseville man was flown for treatment after his combine harvester was hit from behind on Highway 16/60 in the Town of Lowell.
A tank rupture at Sharpe Products drew engines and a county hazmat team, with crews estimating two more hours on scene.
A caller spotted the man floating roughly 30 feet offshore near Bay View Park; he has not yet been identified.
Katelyn Librizzi, 28, avoided prison time after pleading guilty to taking the running van near Appleton and Burleigh. Her mother says she'd begged police for help beforehand.
A federal judge branded Wisconsin Cheese Group a "neighborhood polluter" after its waste overwhelmed a small village's sewer plant for months.
Samotria Matthews, a top deputy in the Clerk of Circuit Court's office, was suspended after a search of her home turned up drugs, cash-processing gear and a gun.
Workers stood outside a Menomonee Falls distribution hub while a Milwaukee K-9 unit searched for a possible pipe bomb.
Rescuers dismantled equipment piece by piece to free a man pinned inside a New Berlin plant, with a Wauwatosa medic unit standing by to give blood on site.
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