MILWAUKEE—A judge has refused to lower the $50,000 bail imposed on a 10-year-old Milwaukee boy accused of intentionally killing his mother because she would not buy him a virtual reality headset. The boy’s attorney argued during his initial court appearance Wednesday that the bail should be lowered from $50,000 to $100 because he has no…
Former Wisconsin Election Official Charged After Sending Fake Military Ballots Ahead of Midterms
A Wisconsin election official who was fired this week has been charged with making false statements over her alleged sending of fake military ballots to another person. Kimberly Zapata, the just-fired Milwaukee Election Commission deputy director, was charged with misconduct in public office and making false statements to obtain absentee ballots, according to a criminal…
Biden Reacts to Heckler in Labor Day Speech: ‘Everybody’s Entitled to Be an Idiot’
President Joe Biden called a heckler at a rally in Milwaukee an “idiot” on Monday, after the man shouted during the president’s speech. Biden made his Labor Day appearance in battleground state Wisconsin and delivered a speech at Milwaukee Laborfest, where labor unions and their members gather annually. Addressing hundreds of leaders and advocates, the…
Convicted Child Rapist Allegedly Kills Woman Days After Judge Allows Him Released
A Wisconsin man who was out on bail after pleading guilty in mid-August to sexually assaulting a minor in 2020 is now accused of killing his ex-girlfriend days after a judge denied a request to hold him in jail while awaiting his sentencing, according to authorities. Ernest Terrell Blakney, a 47-year-old fugitive and convicted pedophile,…
Man Vacationing in Milwaukee Dies in Fall From Drawbridge
MILWAUKEE— A Rhode Island man vacationing in Milwaukee fell to his death after a drawbridge was raised while he was walking across it. Richard Dujardin, 77, of Providence, Rhode Island, was crossing the Kilbourn Avenue Bridge in downtown Milwaukee on Monday afternoon with his wife, according to a Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office report. Rosemarie…
Republican National Convention to Be Held in Milwaukee in 2024: RNC Chairwoman
Republicans will head to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to select their next presidential nominee, according to the chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday. “Milwaukee is a world-class city, and we are eager to see it shine in the spotlight come 2024,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel wrote on Twitter after an RNC committee vote on Friday….
Who Is to Blame If Nashville Doesn’t Get the 2024 Republican Convention It so Richly Deserves?
Commentary The two finalists in the competition for the 2024 Presidential Convention are Nashville, Tennessee, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As of July 15, 2022, Milwaukee is very much in the lead. “Today, the Site Selection Committee voted to recommend Milwaukee to host the 2024 Republican National Convention and it is a testament to the forthright and…
Crews Locate Bodies of 2 Men Who Tried to Save Milwaukee Boy
MILWAUKEE—The bodies of two men who went into a rain-swollen drainage ditch in Milwaukee to try to save a 10-year-old boy have been recovered, officials said Thursday. The discovery comes three days after the three people were swept into a tunnel that runs under a road, shortly after a storm dropped heavy rainfall. The body…
3 Missing, Swept Away in Drainage Ditch After Severe Storms
MILWAUKEE—A child and two adults were missing Tuesday after they were swept away in a drainage ditch in Milwaukee a day earlier following severe thunderstorms that brought heavy rains and damaging winds to a wide swath of the Midwest and parts of the South, authorities said. Crews resumed their search Tuesday morning for an 11-year-old…
Milwaukee Officials Sued in Zuckerberg-Related Election Bribery Case
March 27, 2022
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Milwaukee’s acting mayor, former mayor, and city clerk have been accused of being involved in an election bribery scheme for accepting election-assistance money from a Mark Zuckerberg-funded activist group in the 2020 election cycle, according to a legal complaint filed with the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin was heavily litigated and…
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