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Grocers failing in Waukesha County
Found: 1 Week 4 Days 22 Hours 26 Minutes ago
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - There's bad news from specialty grocers in two communities: Waukesha and Delafield. In Waukesha, the Super Amigo, a Hispanic grocery store on E. Racine and Roberta Aves. closed recently.
In Delafield, the fate of Gagliano's Market is still uncertain, after the ISB Bank of Ixonia took over the financially troubled business.
For more, read retail reporter Doris Hajewski's <a href= http://blogs.jsonline.com/shoptalk$gt;Shop Talk blog</a$gt;....
Wausau Paper to cut 150 jobs at Maine mill
Found: 1 Week 4 Days 22 Hours 26 Minutes ago
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Wausau Paper Corp. (<a href=http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/ibd.morningstar.com/quicktake/standard/client/shell/AP707.html?CN=AP707&valid=NO&set=new&view=quote&ticker=WPP&SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=DJSP_COMPLETE&TEMPLATE=$gt;WPP</a$gt;) said today it will permanently close one of the two machines at its specialty mill in Jay, Maine, affecting 150 of the 235 jobs there.The company blamed higher operating costs and weakened market conditions. The machine made release liner paper used as backing for labels and other materials with sticky surfaces. The machine can make up to 40,000 tons of paper a year. Wausau plans to close it by the end of the year.
Wausau said it would take a pre-tax charge of $10 million for the shutdown, including $3 million in the third quarter. Before the announcement, Wausau's share price 26 cents at $8.49. Mosinee-based Wausau has about 1,600 employees in Wisconsin.
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Update: Charges filed in seniors crimes
Found: 1 Week 4 Days 22 Hours 26 Minutes ago
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - <table width=210 border=0 align=right valign=top$gt;<tr$gt;<td$gt;<a href="http://www.jsonline.com/multimedia/graphic.asp?graphic=/graphics/news/img/aug08/merett_082608_big.jpg"$gt;<img src="http://www.jsonline.com/graphics/news/img/aug08/merett_082608_200.jpg" align="left" border="0" width="200" height="200" hspace="5" vspace="5"$gt;</a$gt;<br clear="all"$gt;<font size="-2"$gt;Sandy Merett</font$gt;</td$gt;</tr$gt;<tr$gt;<td$gt;<a href="http://www.jsonline.com/multimedia/graphic.asp?graphic=/graphics/news/img/aug08/bmarkos_082608_big.jpg"$gt;<img src="http://www.jsonline.com/graphics/news/img/aug08/bmarkos_082608_200.jpg" align="left" border="0" width="200" height="200" hspace="5" vspace="5"$gt;</a$gt;<br clear="all"$gt;<font size="-2"$gt;Bianca Markos</font$gt;</td$gt;</tr$gt;<tr$gt;<td$gt;<a href="http://www.jsonline.com/multimedia/graphic.asp?graphic=/graphics/news/img/aug08/mmarkos_082608_big.jpg"$gt;<img src="http://www.jsonline.com/graphics/news/img/aug08/mmarkos_082608_200.jpg" align="left" border="0" width="200" height="200" hspace="5" vspace="5"$gt;</a$gt;<br clear="all"$gt;<font size="-2"$gt;Marcel Markos</font$gt;</td$gt;</tr$gt;</table$gt;Three Milwaukeeans - a mother, her teen son and her teen daughter - have been charged in Ozaukee County in connection with three thefts, a burglary and an attempted theft, all involving senior citizens who live in Mequon.According to online circuit court records, more charges may be filed against Sandy Merett, 43; Bianca Markos, 19; and Marcel Markos, 18.The three were spotted by a patrol officer and arrested Friday in Mequon as they were allegedly driving away from the scene of a burglary, police said.
A 9-year-old boy, described as Merett's son and sibling to Bianca and Marcel Markos, also was in the vehicle.
The suspects appeared in Ozaukee County Circuit Court this afternoon and are being held in the Ozaukee County Jail. Judge Tom R. Wolfgram set bail at $10,000 for Merett and Bianca Markos and $5,000 for Marcel Markos. Each of the three is charged with theft and burglary.
The Mequon crimes occurred between Aug. 9 and Friday, with victims ranging in age from 68 to 100. The three are suspected of posing as health care workers in some cases to gain access to seniors' homes, according to police.
They are suspected of committing similar crimes in Cedarburg, Wauwatosa and Washington County, according to Mequon Police Chief SteveGraff.
"We believe that these suspects were victimizing mainly elderly people for some time now," Graff said in a statement. "Unfortunately, some of the victims had priceless personal property taken from them that may never be recovered," the chief said....
Grant County boy, 3, killed in ATV crash
Found: 1 Week 5 Days 2 Hours 20 Minutes ago
WBAY 2 News - Associated Press - August 25, 2008 2:55 PM ET LANCASTER, Wis. (AP) - An all-terrain vehicle crash in Grant County has left a 3-year-old boy dead and his father with a broken leg.
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Update: Charges filed in break-ins, thefts
Found: 1 Week 5 Days 2 Hours 22 Minutes ago
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Three Milwaukeeans - a mother, her teen son and her teen daughter - have been charged in Ozaukee County in connection with three thefts, a burglary and an attempted theft, all involving senior citizens who live in Mequon.According to online circuit court records, more charges may be filed against Sandy Merrett, 43; Bianca Markos, 19; and Marcel Markos, 18.The three were spotted by a patrol officer and arrested Friday in Mequon as they were allegedly driving away from the scene of a burglary, police said.
A 9-year-old boy described as being related to the trio also was in the vehicle.
The suspects appeared in Ozaukee County Circuit Court this afternoon and are being held in the Ozaukee County Jail. Judge Tom R. Wolfgram set bail at $10,000 for Merett and Bianca Markos and $5,000 for Marcel Markos. Each of the three are charged with theft and burglary.
The Mequon crimes occurred between Aug. 9 and Friday, with victims ranging in age from 68to 100. The three are suspected of posing as health care workers in some cases to gain access to seniors' homes, according to police.
They are suspected of committing similar crimes in Cedarburg, Wauwatosa and in Washington County, according to Mequon Police Chief Steve Graff.
"We believe that these suspects were victimizing mainly elderly people for some time now," Graff said in a statement. "Unfortunately, some of the victims had priceless personal property taken from them that may never be recovered," the chief said....
Police officer enters not guilty pleas
Found: 1 Week 5 Days 2 Hours 22 Minutes ago
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - A Milwaukee police officer pleaded not guilty today to two felony counts of misconduct in office and misdemeanor counts of theft by an employee and concealing stolen property.Jeffrey Buckson was arrested July 2 by members of the Milwaukee Police Department's Professional Performance Division and charged later that month.He is free on a $5,000 signature bond.A hearing before Milwaukee County Circuit Judge William Brash is set for Sept. 17. If convicted of all charges, Buckson, 44, faces up to 8 years in prison.
Buckson is charged with keeping $100 of $530 seized during the inspection of a suspicious vehicle, during a sting set up by internal investigators....
Girl saved from water still sedated
Found: 1 Week 5 Days 2 Hours 22 Minutes ago
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - A 5-year-old girl pulled from a submerged car over the weekend is recovering today but still sedated for brain and lung injuries, according to the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department.Kenosha County Sheriff's officials reported this morning that the girl is "more stable" at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa, where she is on a respirator.The girl was in a car driven by her mother, Nicole M. Schroeder, 26, and another passenger, Ronald A. Reilly, 29, both of Trevor, Wis., about 9 p.m. Friday night. Schroeder was eastbound in the 27700 block of County Highway C in the Town of Salem when she swerved to avoid something in the road. The car rolled over and landed in about 4 feet of water in Camp Lake.
Schroeder and Reilly got out, but the girl remained submerged under water for five to 10 minutes.
She was later freed from the vehicle by Reilly, a passing motorist and a Trevor firefighter, who was able to cut away the child's seat belt. She was transported by a medical helicopter.
Schroeder was not injured. Reilly had minor cuts. Alcohol did not appear to be a factor in the crash....
Chief justice of tribal court dies at 87
Found: 1 Week 5 Days 2 Hours 23 Minutes ago
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Keshena - Rita Ann Keshena, the sitting Supreme Court chief justice on the Menominee Tribal Court, died at her home Sunday of apparent natural causes. She was 87.Keshena had training as a nurse and in the theater arts but went back to law school at age 57 because she wanted to devote her life to her tribe, said Lisa Waukau, the tribal chairman and Keshena's niece.
"The law was her passion, native people were her passion," Waukau told The Associated Press on Monday. "She came home in 1981 and worked for the rest of her days."Keshena returned to the reservation in northeast Wisconsin after receiving her law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1980.
She was a tireless supporter of Indian sovereignty and native American rights, Waukau said.
"She was a strong proponent of Indian gaming," she said. "Very early on, she saw the value to Indian tribes for them to have gaming on their lands."Keshena, the granddaughter of Band Chief Keshena for whom the Village of Keshena was named about 1852, was the first woman in the tribe to earn a law degree. She also was the first woman to become the tribal court's chief justice when she was appointed last year by the Menominee Tribal Legislatureand sworn in last October.
Matthew Seestedt, 57, remembered his mother as an intelligent, articulate woman with a fondness for reading, especially the works of Shakespeare. That's one reason his mother was so interested in returning to school, even in her mid-50s, he said.
"I believe she liked the student life. It was learning, it was reading, it was writing," he said. "She was just always driven, always striving to be better."Waukau said she sometimes worried about how hard Keshena worked. As Keshena's one-time boss, Waukau urged her aunt to retire when she turned 80, but Keshena insisted she had no time to slow down.
"She said, 'No, I do not choose to retire, I have a lot of work yet left to do,'" Waukau said. "She never took days off, never thought she had time for things as mundane as vacation."Along with Seestedt, Keshena is survived by another son and four grandchildren.
A funeral service is scheduled for Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Menominee Tribal Courts Complex in Keshena....
Car catches fire on I-43 exit ramp
Found: 1 Week 5 Days 2 Hours 23 Minutes ago
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - PHOTO/KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFFA firefighter sets a hose as the Milwaukee Fire Department arrives on the scene of a car fire on the southbound I-43 exit ramp at McKinley.
No one was injured and the fire was put out quickly. The car was being towed to a scrap yard today when the driver saw smoke. He pulled over and was able tooffload the vehicle before it became fully engulfed....
Suspect sought in Tosa bank robbery
Found: 1 Week 5 Days 2 Hours 23 Minutes ago
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Wauwatosa police are seeking two people in the robbery of a Tri City National Bank within the last hour.Police said a man entered the bank, 10859 W. Bluemound Road, about 1:15 p.m., passed a note to a teller and implied he had a weapon. There were no customers in the bank at the time. No one was hurt.
The man obtained money with a dye pack that later went off in the parking lot, where the robber fled in a car believed to be driven by a second person. Some of the stolen money was recovered in the parking lot, according to Wauwatosa police Lt. Dominic Leone.
The robber was described as a black male younger than 30, about 5-feet-9 to 6-feet tall and with a thin build. He wore a long sleeve, light blue shirt with a small checkered pattern and a navy blue baseball cap. He also had a gold tooth. There was no description of the second person.
They fled in a dark gray over black mid 1990s Lincoln Contintental-type car, according to police. They were last seen eastbound on Bluemound Road.
Anyone with information may call Wauwatosa police at 414-471-8430....
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