Anna Veronica Sowa left Michigan in 1951, left behind her brothers, sisters and widowed mother and settled in Milwaukee. She never married, but she had a baby, a son she gave up for adoption.

Waukesha - When a ski-masked Matthew S. Baker shoved a handgun into Kari Mirek's back, walked her to the cash register and put the gun up to her head, Mirek said, she feared for her life.

Waukesha - Under pressure from the business community to expand, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha officials are looking to business for financial support to build possibly the largest campus addition in more than 20 years.

A $65,000 donation from Milwaukee businessman Sheldon Lubar and his wife, Marianne, will restore lifeguards to Bradford Beach this summer for the first time in six years, county officials said Thursday.

Milwaukee's Fire and Police Commission soon will consider major changes in the way it handles citizen complaints about police officers, the panel's executive director said Thursday.

Madison - State Department of Transportation Secretary Frank Busalacchi abused his discretion when he transferred his chief counsel out of a job, a state hearing examiner has determined.

In the year since 4-year-old Jasmine Owens was gunned down while jumping rope in front of her family's home, residents on N. 29th St. have refused to hand over their neighborhood to violence.

MILWAUKEE COUNTYAction on aldermen's car allowance tabledA Milwaukee Common Council committee delayed action Thursday on a measure to cut off the car allowance for hospitalized or jailed aldermen, after panel members questione...

A Wisconsin Army reservist sentenced this week on a federal machine gun conviction was reprimanded in 2002 for corrupting military computers and possibly providing sensitive information to Wisconsin militia groups, Army documents state.

A new, very light version of Miller Genuine Draft, featuring just 64 calories in a 12-ounce serving, could provide some heavy lifting for the faltering brand.

Madison - State regulators are joining environmental groups in raising questions about the coal-fired power plant that Alliant Energy Corp. proposes to build in southwestern Wisconsin.

Kohl's Corp. said earnings fell nearly 27% in the first three months of its fiscal year, but it still beat Wall Street's estimates by a nickel a share on the strength of inventory management.

Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan is going to require that the 211 parishes in the 10-county archdiocese undergo financial reviews by outside professionals to ensure that no volunteers or church personnel are dipping into the more than $198...

With the precedent-shattering Ryan Braun signing Thursday, the Milwaukee Brewers further established themselves as a small-market team that doesn't behave accordingly. And that's the way it should be, even in baseball's imbalanced env...

A historic day for the Milwaukee Brewers off the field turned into a forgettable dud on it.

Herbert "Whisper" Goodman once took hits as a running back for the Green Bay Packers. Now, he's dishing out punishment as a mixed-martial arts fighter with designs on becoming a world champion.

When the president of Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon heard the St. Louis Rams were looking for a summer training-camp site, he knew just the place.

Oshkosh - If you were in the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater dugout Thursday, this was the kind of game you savor:

Serving as host for the SCCA National Championship Runoffs isn't going to make Road America millions of dollars, but it does make a lot of sense. It's not a huge spectator event. In fact, it'd be a reasonable bet that three-quarters o...

My mother glared at me the moment I started singing a ditty I'd heard playing on the eight-track in our car.