Brash talk by a few Milwaukee police officers led city officials to investigate whether some officers were trying to manipulate overtime and paid time off to cancel out unpaid furlough days.The probe raised questions about several police personnel who racked up large amounts of overtime in a scheduled furlough week. But both the Police Department and the police union insist nobody has evaded the mandatory furloughs, and they say nobody will be allowed to do so.Or, to be more precise, nobody has
A Racine County fire claims a life Sunday morning. Just before 8:00 a.m. police said the house was fully engulfed in flames. Investigators are calling the incident a fire and death investigation. FOX 6 Reporter Jeremy Ross tells you about the victim that called Caledonia home for more than 17 years ...
A 41-year-old man was killed in a crash early Saturday morning after the vehicle he was in struck two concrete light poles and overturned in the 4500 block of N. Hopkins St., Milwaukee Police said.The man was found lying in front of the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene.Witnesses reported that the vehicle was speeding before the driver lost control of it ...
Three Milwaukee police officers and a school safety assistant were assaulted Friday afternoon during a fight at Vincent High School.Seven juveniles and one adult were arrested during the melee, which broke out about 4 p.m. in the north parking lot of the school, 7501 N. Granville Road, police said.One officer was struck in the face by a student, another was kicked in the leg by a student and another was punched in the head by an adult friend of a student, police said ...
Milwaukee aldermen Friday sustained Mayor Tom Barrett's only veto of a 2010 budget item, a move that means more unpaid furlough days for police officers and lower-than-expected property taxes ...