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, …
SCORE Complex in Racine hosts the 2013 National High School Rugby Girls Championships, and DHSA and Catholic Memorial are among the eight finalists.
Twelve girls from Wauwatosa are participating this Saturday and Sunday in the 2013 National High School Rugby Girls Championships at the SCORE Complex in Franksville, WI. Eleven are students at Divine Savior Holy Angels, a six-time national champion. They are: Also in the tournament is Haley Richardson, a sophomore at Waukesha Catholic Memorial, which also qualified. DSHA is seeded second in the eight-team Division 1 tournament and faces Amazons of California at 10:15 Saturday in an opening-round match. Catholic Memorial is seeded No. 4 in the Division 1 tournament and opens against Summit, CO, also at 10:15 a.m. Saturday. The championship match at 12:30 p.m. Sunday will be streamed live online.
Here's the story of Marlene Konkoly, who found creative ways to spend less and save more so she can retire at 50. This story is the first in our series about Extreme Savers.
Americans may be living longer, but our retirement plans aren’t keeping up. Which means people are living longer with smaller bank accounts. But Marlene Konkoly will retire at age 50. How did she do it? She contributes a whopping 45 percent of the gross annual income she earns as a procurement officer for an automotive finance company to her retirement — all while owning a home and remaining debt-free. Konkoly is actually well ahead of the retirement savings curve compared to many of her fellow Americans. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, fewer than half of Americans even know how much money they would need to retire. And nearly a third of employees who had access to a defined contribution plan such as a 401(k) did not participate…
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Probationer has a bundle of strange booty in his bindle that doesn't belong to him, but despite elegant police investigative work, he draws only a municipal citation.
What started as nothing more than an unattended bag left on a couch in Mayfair Mall turned into quite an investigative coup for the Wauwatosa police, leading them to believe they had a basis for four serious criminal charges. In the end, an assistant district attorney quashed that plan, and a habitual thief walked with a municipal citation. At 4:22 p.m. May 3, police were called to the upper level of Mayfair near Spencer's Gifts when a black duffel bag was found unattended on a sofa. Officers opened the bag and quickly found a driver's license receipt with a name. The Mayfair security chief was on hand, and he paged that name to return for his bag. But in the meantime, Tosa police officers were digging further in the duffel, and the next …
Wauwatosa West had lost 11 in a row but didn't quit when it fell behind its city rival, and came back for a one-run softball victory.
Megan O’Rourke’s two-run double was the big hit as Wauwatosa West rallied from a 4-1 deficit to defeat crosstown rival Wauwatosa East 5-4 in softball on Wednesday. The Trojans (3-11) had lost 11 in a row and looked to be in deep trouble again in the sixth. East foiled a squeeze bunt with runners at second and third, throwing the runner out at home for the second out. But O’Rourke pulled one just inside the third base line to make the score 4-3. Moments later, a bases-loaded walk sent home the tying run. Dani Savignac scored the winning run in the seventh from second base. She took third on a wild pitch and came home when the throw from the catcher sailed into left field. Ashley Lindstrom was the winning pitcher, tossing all seven innings. …
Don't go barging into your own home if you know someone else has. Husband and wife stop short when they see things amiss, and police are able to gather some evidence.
They made one innocent mistake in home security, but a Wauwatosa couple did all the right things to assist police when they found their house had been broken into. At 11:50 a.m. May 6, after leaving home around 9, the wife and husband came home from work for lunch and found a small window, one of three, had been knocked out of their front door. They also noted that although the door was closed, the deadbolt had been unlocked. They stopped right there, did not touch a thing, and called police to their home in the 700 block of North 119th Street. Officers found the whole decorative window from the door had been knocked out, frame and all, and was lying intact inside the door. They surmised a burglar had then reached in and was able to turn …
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Former lead singer for popular Waukesha-based band is facing a new challenge in his life: a solo career and writing the score for a play about alcoholism, bullying and suicide.
About this sponsorship: In honor of the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary’s historic ascent of Mount Everest, Patch and Grape-Nuts are teaming up to highlight those who inspire people around them to climb their own mountains. If you were hitting the bars on the East Side of Milwaukee in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, you are probably fans of the BoDeans, the rock band from Waukesha. Sam Llanas and Kurt Neumann introduced the nation to the Waukesha Sound and made a name for themselves in the music industry. In 2012, Llanas decided to leave the band to work on solo projects and is facing one of those challenges right now – writing the score for a one-man play about alcoholism, bullying and suicide. “I'm working with a playwright, Doug …
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