To speed up the pace of removing houses for a Kinnickinnic River flood-control project - and to cut costs of maintaining and securing the houses while vacant - the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has proposed demolishing nine residences in the next few months rather than the slower dismantling of the structures for recycling and salvage.

A delinquency hearing will be held later this month for a 17-year-old Shorewood girl who investigators say gave birth to a boy in her bathtub then buried him in a flower bed beside her house, a judge ordered Monday.

Milwaukee County Supervisor Johnny L. Thomas Jr., who was charged last week with taking a $500 bribe, was stripped of all his board committee assignments Monday.

Dramatic developments are rocking the campaigns for two of Milwaukee's least dramatic offices: city comptroller and city treasurer.

Milwaukee County sheriff's detectives are investigating the death Sunday afternoon of a 43-year-old female patient at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex.

Bond has been set at $3 million for a suburban Chicago man accused in stabbings at a bar that left an elementary school teacher from Brown Deer dead and injured two other men.

For four years, David Carter never paid a bill or emptied his mailbox or pushed a lawn mower or snow shovel. Notices and warning letters were sent his way, but no one ever entered the house to see if he was there and doing all right.

Esperanza Unida, the south side job training agency that's been struggling to stay in business, has had its tax exempt status revoked.

Naperville, Ill. - An elementary schoolteacher originally from Brown Deer is dead and two other people have been injured after being stabbed at a suburban Chicago bar.

Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. stopped a car Saturday morning on I-94 after he saw the passenger drinking a beer, the sheriff's office reported Saturday.

A 50-year-old man who was reported driving erratically Friday night on I-94 near 84th St. was arrested by Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies, marking the eighth time the man has been arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated, deputies said.

Two people were killed and seven others were hospitalized after a one-vehicle crash that occurred at 3:34 a.m. Saturday on Beechnut Road north of Highway 67 in the town of Ashford, the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Department said Saturday.

Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele on Friday called for a review of county ethics and procurement rules in the wake of criminal bribery charges filed against county Supervisor Johnny L. Thomas Jr.

If you're a lawyer, it's never wise to ignore "orders to show cause," especially when they're coming from a federal appeals court. Milwaukee criminal defense attorney Bridget Boyle-Saxton learned that the hard way Thursday.

Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. announced Thursday that he was giving up his legal fight over deputy layoffs as the county prepared to issue 48 pink slips.

The Milwaukee County Board on Thursday approved a revision of its sick leave policy aimed at phasing out the practice of banking unlimited amounts of unused sick leave and cashing them in at retirement.

All Milwaukee public utilities - not just We Energies - will be covered by a Public Service Commission decision on who should pay the costs of moving their lines out of the way of the planned Milwaukee Streetcar route, a state administrative law judge ruled Thursday.

An estimated 9,000 gallons of jet fuel leaked from a Shell Oil Co. pipeline at Mitchell International Airport in late January and a contractor will begin excavating near a taxiway early Friday in search of the pipe break, a Shell spokesperson said Thursday.

Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. has over the past month returned 61 inmates to jail who had been released with electronic monitoring bracelets, under tougher standards and stricter enforcement of rules governing the privilege.

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