Saturday, May 18, 2013
The National Transportation Safety Board wants another lowering of the blood-alcohol standard for drunk driving. It stands at .08; the NTSB wants it at .05.
The National Transportation Safety Board wants the blood-alcohol threshold for drunk driving to be lowered to .05 from .08. Wisconsin followed the rest of the country from a .10 to .08 standard in 2003, under the threat of losing federal highway funds. The state had almost 29,000 DUI arrests in 2011, almost 10,000 fewer than in 2000 but still the sixth-highest per-capita amount in the country. And police regularly arrest people for driving with concentrations two and three times the current legal limit, and/or for multiple convictions. Will a lower limit make Wisconsin citizens safer in any way? Or is it simply an unnecessary government intrusion? Vote in our poll and comment below. Related polls:
Friday, May 17, 2013
If set-up accident scene doesn't resonate with all students, followup film and testimonials do, as pre-Prom documentary of alcohol-related deaths hits home.
An eleborate mock crash scene set up Thursday morning at Wauwatosa East High School was only the beginning of an intensive two-day course of events designed to drive home the danger of mixing alcohol and automobiles. For some students, Thursday's mockup didn't quite live up to its billing in shock value: It was a little too staged, they thought. They were kept at a distance while firefighters and police officers swarmed around two smashed-up cars that supposedly contained friends of theirs – but they were barely visible. And then, too, the scene was crawling with camera operators intruding on every scene, poking lenses between paramedics and victims, police and perpetrators. It was a little shocking just knowing that was your friend out …
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Blaring music and failure to pay tickets and maintain proper registration make a quick trip to the convenience store a beacon for police attention.
A man with two drunken driving convictions on his record probably could have gotten away with a quick errand in the neighborhood had he not gone out of his way to draw so much attention to himself. At 2:50 a.m. – an hour when few are on the road but many who are have been drinking – on May 8, a patrol officer at Wauwatosa Avenue and West Center Street heard extremely loud music pounding from a car at the BP gas station on the corner. The officer pulled in and saw that nobody was in the car. He ran the plates and found they were suspended for unpaid parking tickets and expired since January, yet there was an improper 2014 registration sticker on the back plate. The officer pulled out and parked north of the gas station to watch, and soon a …
WLC has invited representatives from Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA) to solicit some initial feedback from its neighbors on the college’s campus master plan project.
If you draw the Powerball winning numbers in Saturday’s lottery, you could score $600 million, the largest Powerball jackpot ever.
Powerball results were watched closely Wednesday when the jackpot was $363 million. After no one picked all six winning numbers, the new Powerball prize for the Saturday, May 18, drawing is now $600 million, which makes it the highest Powerball jackpot ever — and the second-highest U.S. lottery jackpot. Return here Saturday night to see the winning numbers The one-time cash payout is estimated at $376.9 million. Tickets are $2 and the game is played in Wisconsin and 42 other states, including Florida, Texas, California and New York. You can buy tickets until 9 p.m. CST for the 9:59 p.m. drawing. Buy tickets online here, or search for a local retailer. Until Saturday, the largest Powerball jackpot was $587.5 million and was won on Nov. 28…
The newly launched website provides practical advice and innovative ideas for those small business owners.
Patch has launched a new site — smallbusiness.patch.com — to educate and empower small businesses with the digital tools, social media strategies and marketing know-how needed to ensure long-term growth. Readers will have access to exclusive interviews with well-known founders and CEOs, and small business industry experts who share their experiences, advice and tips for success. One of the latest articles features an exclusive interview with successful real estate entrepreneur, Barbara Corcoran, founder of The Corcoran Group. In this Q&A, Corcoran discusses the how to take advantage of the size of a small businesses, and why making big “mistakes” made all the difference in her success. Click here to read about the tactics Corcoran used to…
Thursday, May 16, 2013
With owner's permission to drive (but no license), juvenile steps on it to try to elude police, ending up wrecking his friend's mother's car and landing in Detention Center.
A Milwaukee boy fled from a Wauwatosa police officer, led him and a cavalcade of other officers on a 2.6-mile high-speed chase, and then, just as police were giving up the pursuit, crashed into a fence and ran. He must have had been deep in some pretty serious business to do that, right? Nope. He just wasn't old enough to drive and was afraid of the consequences. At 1:59 p.m. Saturday, a Tosa patrol officer monitoring traffic in the 1800 block of North 60th Street saw a car approaching from the north and accelerating rapidly beyond the speed limit. He clocked it at 45 mph in the 25-mph zone as it passed him, and he pulled out to make the stop, with lights flashing. The officer said the driver slowed to about 30 mph and it appeared he was …
Woman finds electronics and other property stolen in break-in, then her live-in ex-husband discovers that his handgun is gone from under his mattress.
A .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol with a loaded magazine and 50 extra rounds was among property taken in a home burglary, the second time in a week and third in 2½ months in which a weapon or weapons was taken in a Wauwatosa home break-in. This time, though, just the one gun was stolen – five and then 10, respectively, were lost in the prior crimes – and this pistol was relatively well hidden, compared to the earlier incidents when large numbers of firearms were left out in the open. At 11:03 a.m., a resident of the 2600 block of North 65th Street called police after discovering the home she shares with her ex-husband had been broken into. She said she had gone to a doctor's appointment at 9 a.m. and returned at 11, unlocked her front …
Carmela Rios, who previously challenged incumbent Phil Kroner in April, has been chosen to replace resigning board member Lois Weber.
Carmela Rios will join the Wauwatosa School Board after she was chosen to fill a vacancy left by 37-year board member Lois Weber, reported Wauwatosa Now. Rios challenged and lost to incumbent Phil Kroner for his seat in the April election. Other candidates included Kristy Casey, Tyra Hildebrand, Michael Huitink, and Gay Leigh Calquhoun-Mundy, reported Wauwatosa Now. Rios has been a science teacher at Saint Joan Antida High School and the Greendale School District. The 10-year Wauwatosa resident has a B.S. in Biology from University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, a M.S. in Natural Science from Michigan State University and is working on a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at Marquette University. Elected in 1976, Weber was been a continuous …
Guaranty Bank at 127th Street and Capitol Drive, Brookfield, was robbed Thursday afternoon. Three men went in, at least one armed, and two more were waiting in a backup getaway car.
Police from Brookfield, Wauwatosa and Butler were searching for as many as five men involved in robbing a Guaranty Bank branch near those borders Thursday afternoon. Three armed men entered the bank at 12655 W. Capitol Dr. in Brookfield just after 1 p.m. Brookfield police were summoned at 1:04 p.m., and the first officer arrived within 30 seconds. But the robbers had already escaped and remained at large late Thursday, Brookfield police said. According to witnesses, three men entered the bank with their faces covered, and at least one semi-automatic handgun was displayed. Bank employees were ordered to the floor, and two suspects jumped the counters and took an undisclosed amount of money. The planned getaway car, a silver Chevy Lumina, …
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4:09 pm on Saturday, May 18, 2013
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