Wisconsin City to Buy Properties on Foreclosed Home Listings

A city in Wisconsin is planning to use nearly $1.7 million in federal funds to buy properties on foreclosed home listings. The initiative is part of the federal government’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. " The city of Kenosha in Wisconsin is planning to use the...

Kenosha Police Run down gunman with car...

Kenosha, Wisconsin is not a "crime free zone," not by a longshot. But some of the things police have done there ought to make criminals think about driving up to Racine or down to Waukegan to conduct their wacky hijinks. As evidence, please examine the opening line of today's...

Illegal Alien Faces Up to 20 years in Prison for Auto Death

One of the side detriments to this sad case is that this idiot becomes a poster boy for the "build a fence between us and them" argument. "The 29-year-old Kenosha man charged in the West Allis crash that killed a 6-year-old girl Monday could face federal charges for...

When an Auto Maker Leaves Town Community Needs Good Role Models

Janesville got the news a week or two back - General Motors isleaving town. GM is a major employer out that way, giving jobs to 4.3percent of Rock County's work force. and many of these are more thanjust "living wage" jobs. They're the types of jobs than anyAmerican community...

Thief enjoys the sweet smell of de feet

From the "weird fetishes" department:"WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) -- Police seized more than 1,500 pairs of girls' shoes from the home and storage unit of a man arrested for breaking into a high school, police said Tuesday. "He liked to smell them," said Lt. William H. Graham."Pretty...

Hot chocolate no treat for stuck factory worker

"KENOSHA, WIS. — An ordinary night’s work at the chocolate company turned dangerous for Donovan Garcia early Friday when he fell into a vat of the molten goo and was trapped for more than two hours. “I was pushing the chocolate down into the vat because it was stuck,”...