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A Whitefish Bay man, Herbert Tippler, 24, and three others lost their lives last Friday night when the 40-foot steel-welded fish tug Cherrio that was launched last December at a local shipyard got caught in an ice jam trying to return to Kenosha in the worst storm of the season.

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee said Friday that its employees' pension plans are underfunded, confirming one of the fears expressed by Catholic Church employees since the archdiocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Jan. 4.

Austin Malone-Mitchell's steady play in the second half and clutch free throws in overtime helped the Generals, who are ranked second in the area by the Journal Sentinel, beat fifth-ranked Hamilton, 75-74.

Reflecting his own rising prominence and the role the budget is playing in national politics, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Janesville has been selected to give the GOP's televised remarks after President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address Tuesday night.

The prevailing wisdom on how to neutralize Chicago's Devin Hester on punt returns is kick toward the sidelines. Some say that's the worst thing to do.

Milwaukee County should abandon its plans to fix O'Donnell Park and instead demolish it and the nearby county Transit Center to make way for a new, world-class Milwaukee Public Museum and additional development, according to Milwaukee businessman/philanthropist Michael Cudahy.

The Menomonee Falls Police Department's "sunshine fund," built up over three decades on change from the department's soda vending machine, is no nickel and dime operation now. Clara Schwarz, who died at age 93 in 2009, has seen to that.

A special session in the Wisconsin state Legislature has moved two bills forward to the governor's desk: one giving tax credits for health savings accounts and another changing civil lawsuits.

Legislators discuss new legisation that would improve manufacturing. Democratic Wisconsin lawmakers debuted legislation Wednesday to boost the manufacturing industry statewide, and hope to gain bipartisan support.

A man who told police he was drinking before he got on a snowmobile jumped off just before a Kenosha-bound Metra train grazed it Wednesday night in Pleasant Prairie, Wis.

I took this photo during the Saturday, April 29th, 2000 Kenosha Transit bus fans excursion, that was sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of The Omnibus Society of Chicago.