Local News for Milwaukee

Police captured an escaped prisoner who broke out of leg shackles and handcuffs and overpowered an armed corrections officer.

State elections officials rejected a Republican request Wednesday to make would-be voters who fail identification checks ineligible or force them to cast provisional ballots.

Nearly a quarter of the people in the city of Milwaukee live below the poverty line.

A 42-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested Wednesday after a high-speed chase through three counties that ended in a crash.

The Milwaukee Fire Department and Milwaukee police are investigating a two-alarm fire on the city's north side.

Milwaukee Alderman Bob Donovan is now asking prosecutors to explore the possibility of criminal charges being filed against Milwaukee school board member Charlene Hardin.

Q: It appears that a new business is remodeling the old Krispy Kreme site on College Avenue.

A Milwaukee woman will spend 60 days in jail for filing fraudulent state income tax returns while working at a tax services company.

' You Paid For It: A Milwaukee school board member was supposed to attend a convention, but she was missing in action.

A 45-year-old woman died in a fire on Milwaukee's north side Saturday, authorities said.

" Fire crews were called to a building on Milwaukee's north side overnight Sunday.

Pierre police say they made a prostitution bust behind a strip mall after responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle.

The executive director of a Waukesha County program that gives young adult first-time offenders a second chance was charged Friday after police said he had sex with a Milwaukee prostitute.

A 32-year-old man fatally shot in an alley on the city's north side Wednesday was identified by longtime friends as Lanell Harrison.

One woman is dead and her mother barely escaped a house fire on Milwaukee's north side.

An all-too-familiar complaint was filed Wednesday, charging a Milwaukee teen with the fatal shooting of another teen over what appears to be a vague rivalry between neighboring gangs.

State authorities have revoked the license of a Milwaukee daycare center whose workers apparently forgot a 23-month-old toddler after a park outing last month.

" Milwaukee police are searching for a suspect in a deadly Wednesday morning shooting.