Whitefish Bay Chief of Police Robert Jacobs talked with Kevin Buckley, Village Spillage. There are many questions about why the KNOWN drug house where Madison Kiefer overdosed was allowed to stay in business. Buckley writes: Concerning the Kiefer tragedy, and specifically the Laughrin "drug house" ....

Gwen Moore talked crap on FOX News this morning. She appeared to address this "Earmark of the Day" -- $500,000 to Marquette University for research to turn human waste into electricity. Transcript GWEN MOORE: Listen, this is extremely important. In the stimulus bill, we have 16 and a half billion do...

Latoya Lewis, an ACORN voter registration worker, was charged yesterday. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel : In the criminal complaint, Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf alleged that Latoya Lewis submitted at least two of eight voter registration cards filled out for the ...

Is it me or is there an epidemic of improbable buzzer beaters in high school basketball this year? The latest comes from the state playoffs in Wisconsin and it certainly woke up the cheeseheads. The game was a regional final between Wisconsin Dells and River Valley, and with scored tied at 56, Dells...

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel : Not guilty pleas were entered Monday for Anthony R. Stancl, the former New Berlin Eisenhower student accused of using the social networking site Facebook to coerce male schoolmates into sexual encounters. Stancl, 18, was arraigned on charges of repeated sexual a...

Concerned taxpayers in Green Bay made their voices heard on Saturday. Was Steve Kagen listening? About 500 people participated in the "tea party" protest. From WLUK: Those at Saturday's rally said they were protesting increasing government intervention and stimulus spending. "Obama's plans are insan...

A woman in Wisconsin was charged with felony identity theft because she posted a photo of her ex-BF's junk in the "M4M casual encounters" section of Craigslist. She also listed his work phone number and invited men to call for phone sex. Meet Kari Heath. The Wisconsin woman, 20, is facing a felony c...

I have solved the TMJ4 Brookfield Perkins "Dirty Dining" mystery that I've been writing about since December 2008. My TV viewing and radio listening habits kept me from finding out the truth sooner. The "NEWS" on TMJ4 can be bought. Last night, I was watching the 10:00 PM news on TMJ4. As usual, Thu...

If you've ever read Eugene Kane, you had to know that this was coming. Kane is so predictable I could have written this column for him. Soon after my arrival in Milwaukee during the early 1980s, some locals made it a point to tell me about Whitefish Bay, a pretty ritzy suburb just outside the city l...

In 2006, Matthew Laughrin was dreaming of a better life. He and his mother, Sandra, were picking up the pieces from Laughrin's drug abuse and overdosing. Matthew grew up in Shorewood and later in Whitefish Bay in a nurturing family with four siblings. A strong upbringing, however, is not the complet...