Friend: Plan was to steal car and kill owner (Portage Daily Register)
JUNEAU - A Watertown man who killed himself as police approached his apartment Friday night had planned to steal a car and kill the owner, then sell the car, according to a friend who was charged Monday with assisting in that crime. He did everything but make the sale.
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Slain man’s mom must pay legal fees (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
A Milwaukee County judge is requiring that Mayor Tom Barrett and Common Council President Willie Hines sign off on a $35,000 judgment that city lawyers obtained against a woman whose son was shot to death in 2004 by a police officer who was lat...
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Update: Friend charged in suspected murder-suicide in Watertown (Wisconsin State Journal)
A Watertown man who killed himself as police approached his apartment Friday night had planned to steal a car and kill the owner, then sell the car, according to a friend who was charged Monday with assisting in that crime. Zachary Zaborek, 20, was charged in Dodge County Circuit Court with aiding a felon, the person he told police was his best friend, Travis Zoellick. Cash bond was set at ...
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36 Hours in Milwaukee (New York Times)
A path along Lake Michigan's shore. THERE’S plenty about modern-day Milwaukee that would be unrecognizable to Laverne and Shirley from the sitcom about the late 50s and 60s.
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City scrolls through pages of time (Greater Milwaukee Today)
WAUKESHA - During the era of Prohibition when alcohol was outlawed, Bluemound Road, between Milwaukee and Waukesha, was known for its speakeasies, where illegal hooch could be had.
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Road Atlanta: Touring Car race report (Motorsport.com)
BRASELTON, Ga. (Oct. 3, 2008) -- While Chip Herr, of Lititz, Pa., led every lap of the SCCA Pro Racing SPEED Touring Car Finale Presented by Toyo Tires®, the focus of the race was glued on third through fifth place, where the battle for the 2008 SPEED Touring Car Drivers' Championship was unfolding.
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Bowling museum headed to Texas (Chicago Tribune)
The Tribune's Tim Jones finds that yet another symbol of the region's identity is striking out for greener pastures The Tribune's Tim Jones finds that yet another symbol of the Midwest region's identity is striking out for greener pastures
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A tale of homicide, suicide (Beaver Dam Daily Citizen)
WATERTOWN — The Dodge County Sheriff's office Saturday unearthed from a shallow grave the body of what appears to be a 31-year-old UW-Milwaukee student missing since Wednesday and confirmed the suicide Friday night of a 20-year-old Watertown man implicated in the man's death. Though Sheriff Todd Nehls said the body found at 2 p.m. Saturday in a brushy area on a 20-acre parcel north of Watertown ...
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POLICE REPORTS: Oct. 6 (The Journal Times)
RACINE Man snatches wallet and runs A 19-year-old man was robbed Friday afternoon of $490 outside Belle City Food Mart, 522 16th St., according to Racine police.
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Chase may lead to break in double homicide (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
BURNS HARBOR | A man wanted in connection with a double homicide was arrested Sunday by Burns Harbor police after a traffic stop and chase across northern Porter County, said Burns Harbor Police Chief Jerry Price.
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