A man armed with a shotgun was shot and killed by police on Monday night after he threatened officers at the Milwaukee VA Medical Center.
Author: Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Kindness can’t be quarantined: Little Free Libraries provide food, toilet paper during pandemic
Many Little Free Libraries are being used to offer essential items such as food and paper goods as people look out for each other in their communities
50 years after Apollo 13, Commander James Lovell sees the mission’s failure as a triumph
Aboard Apollo 13, James Lovell was supposed to be the fifth person to walk on the moon. It was not to be.
20 years after deadly crane crash at Brewers’ Miller Park, it’s still ‘an emotional roller coaster’
In the two decades since the Big Blue crane collapse at Miller Park, construction sites have become safer for workers.
Groundbreaking World War II unit of black women honored decades after their service
A documentary by a Wisconsin filmmaker shines a spotlight on a little-known groundbreaking all-female African American World War II postal unit.
Here’s your chance to become part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s oral history
Marquette University, which has a huge J.R.R. Tolkien collection, wants to hear from fanboys and girls for an oral history project about the author.
Milwaukee airport runway reopens a day after pothole discovered
One of Mitchell International Airport’s two runways was shut down over the weekend because of a pothole caused by freezing and thawing temperatures.
Jake Patterson, suspect in Closs case, was discharged early from Marines because of character issues
Jake Patterson served only five weeks in the Marines before washing out of boot camp.
Vernita Lee, mother of Oprah Winfrey, dies in Milwaukee at age 83
Vernita Lee, Oprah Winfrey’s mother, died on Thanksgiving at her home in Milwaukee, her family announced Monday.She was 83.
Woman charged with leaving 3 young children in car while she shopped
A Wisconsin woman, 26, was charged with leaving her daughters, ages 6, 17 months and 6 months, in her car on a cold day while she shopped in November.