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Wauwatosa School District faces $4.2 million in budget 'errors'
WAUWATOSA, Wis. — The Wauwatosa School District’s chief financial officer, Scot Ecker, told the school board Thursday, Aug. 22, that his predecessor made a $4.2 million “error in budgeting.”. Ecker was recently hired in July. He said he has already started cutting the budget. “We have implemented...
On Cloud Wine brings wine bar experience to Franklin
On Cloud Wine, the area’s newest wine bar, made its debut during the last weekend of July at 10064 W. Loomis Rd. in Franklin. Owner Randy Larson, who also operates the Spirits of Norway Vineyard in nearby Franksville, says he saw the wine bar as a way to share their wines with a wider audience while highlighting how they pair with food.
‘This is awful for us’ – Competitors get up close view of Baird Center
MILWAUKEE – Event planners have descended upon Milwaukee this week, looking for the perfect venue to host their next big party. Connect Marketplace is being held at Baird Center. The convention helps connect event planners with possible venues from across the country. “We have over a thousand meeting planners...
Waukesha man charged in shooting death of his grandma
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Waukesha prosecutors charged a man in the shooting death of his grandma. Investigators said 24-year-old Sean Couture shot and killed his 74-year-old grandmother Nancy Lovejoy during an argument inside her home Sunday night on Douglass Avenue near Garfield Avenue. "She's my sister, was my sister," Lovejoy's...
Black Pride Milwaukee to host Back-to-School Readiness Fair on Labor Day
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- To help ensure local families are best equipped for the back-to-school season, Black Pride Milwaukee will host its Back-to-School Readiness Fair on Monday, Sept. 2. Black Pride Milwaukee Founder and Executive Director Matt Hogans joined us on Thursday, Aug. 29 to preview the event that will...
It’s been 28 years since Tiger Woods made his PGA Tour pro debut. He won $2,544 in that event
“Hello world.” It was an orchestrated line, part of a Nike campaign designed to coincide with the professional debut of 20-year-old Tiger Woods. In fact, it was actually “I guess, hello world, huh?” when Woods opened his press conference one day before the start of the Greater Milwaukee Open on Aug. 28, 1996. Within two days, Nike’s “Hello World” ad campaign included a three-page spread in the Wall Street Journal and a number of televised advertisements. In fact, Nike shelved all of its previous national television ads and aired its Woods spot 28 times during first-round coverage of the GMO on ESPN. History doesn’t...
Housing Authority tenants filed more than 4,000 complaints about bed bugs and pests. Now they are suing.
Public housing residents are suing the Milwaukee Housing Authority, accusing the agency of letting a bed bug infestation fester inside College Court, a pair of apartment towers on the city's near west side. The class-action lawsuit, filed in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on Wednesday, claims conditions inside College Court are "uninhabitable," and asks...
Brewers could luck into keeping Willy Adames under one condition
The Milwaukee Brewers lost Craig Counsell to the Chicago Cubs, lost Brandon Woodruff for the entire season due to injury, traded Corbin Burnes, and were without Devin Williams for the entire first half. Despite all of that, they enter Thursday's action with a 76-56 record, 9.0 games ahead of the Cubs in the NL Central. As of this writing, they hold the largest division lead in the majors.
Minnesota storm photos: Aug. 29, 2024
The latest in a string of severe storms rolled through Minnesota and western Wisconsin on Thursday, leaving behind toppled trees and damaged homes. There were several reports of tornadoes, and several thousand are still without power on Friday morning.Submit your photos and videos here
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