Snowfall and snow emergencies picking up at 10 p.m.

While the heaviest snow totals are expected closer to Lake Michigan, the first school closings to be announced were located further west. ...
This week's openings and closings

Friday: "Milwaukee Area Teachers of Art Exhibition" at Carroll University. Saturday: "Wisconsin Maters Series" work by Emily Groom at the Charles Allis ...
Photo exhibit depicts five decades of black life

When UPI was closing up its offices in the 1970s, Scheafer asked what was going to happen to the decades of photographs. "They told him they were going to the Dumpster," said his daughter, Carole S. Thudium of Evanston. "Not long after that, he was there with some friends and his van to save them and take them home." Although the historic photographs sat in the Scheafer basement in Chicago for years, they were hardly buried and untouched. Thudium said her father used to look at the photographs all the time. "My dad loved to go through them," she said. "He had two years of high school and he used to say that all of his education in history came from looking...
Another East side staple bites the dust

It's the way the East side of Milwaukee is moving – closing doors and opening online superstores. More book and clothing sales are happening online, ...
Riders to feel steep CTA cuts Monday

The CTA is also cutting 1057 jobs and closing the 102-year-old Archer Garage. The cuts were needed to make up a $95 million budget deficit, which the agency ...
Mukwonago Catholic school to close

The St. James closing is the latest sign of struggles for parochial schools in the Milwaukee area. Read more school news at the JSOnline education Web site, ...
Jury convicts man in fatal Riverwest robbery

In his closing arguments to jurors Friday, Assistant District Attorney Mark Williams quoted liberally from recorded statements Jackson made to detectives in Mississippi, where he had been arrested in September. Jurors had heard about an hour of the interview earlier in the week. Williams called Jackson's long statements vulgar, arrogant and the furthest thing from remor...
Errors Key in Sixers' Loss to Bucks

Opportunity knocked a couple of times in the closing minutes, but two missed free throws by Williams as well as an offensive foul kept the Sixers from tying ...
Snow to total 7 inches; strong winds to follow
NBC15's school closing site is here. Roads conditions are snow covered and slippery all across southern Wisconsin as of 5:30 am, but the State Patrol said ...
Recession Forces Nonprofits to Consolidate
The Alliance for Children & Families, a national umbrella organization based in Milwaukee, has weathered several mergers over the past decade. ...