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Fond Du Lac investigators find new clues in 20-year-old cold case

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Published Nov. 19, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.
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Investigators are refocusing their efforts on a crime nearly two decades old. Loved ones call her Barrie, but most remember her as Berit Beck. Her mother tells FOX 6 it's been about five years since investigators contacted her about her daughter's murder ...

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FOX6 Investigators: The Price of Justice

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Published Nov. 11, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.
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Victim of crime pays unusually high price ... When someone commits a crime, a victim usually pays the price. But a Lake Geneva woman had no idea just how high the price would go when she asked the district attorney to take her case. FOX6 Investigator Bryan Polcyn has the story of a white collar crime, an expensive state witness, and a prosecutor who did something that's never been done before ...

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Crime Continuing To Surge Around UWM Campus

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Published Nov. 10, 2009 at 11:48 p.m.

A rabbi approached by gunmen, an Army reservist nearly robbed on the street, that’s just part of the surge in crime that has happened around the UW-Milwaukee campus in recent days ...

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Positive role models are key to kids' success

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Published Nov. 9, 2009 at 10:01 a.m.

At any given time, anywhere from 800 to 1,000 Milwaukee County children ages 12 and older are living under the supervision of the state-run Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare in foster homes, group homes or with relatives.A landmark 1998 study showed that Wisconsin teens who move out of foster care often end up homeless, get sent to prison or become the victims of violent crime. A follow-up study of youth in Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa published in 2005 showed similar trends.One of the most

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Only on FOX 6: Tracking Crime on Milwaukee's South Side

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Published Nov. 9, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.
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If you would describe police in a constant battle with crime, FOX 6 takes you into the war room. No other TV station has ever been allowed into the Milwaukee Police Department's daily briefing ...

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Milwaukee police bust late night rave on city's north side

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Published Nov. 8, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.
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Police responded to a vacant building on Milwaukee's north side Saturday night, but not for a crime scene. Investigators say the organizers charged $10.00 per head to get into the bash. FOX 6 Reporter Jeremy Ross brings you the latest on this late night party bust ...

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Attorney General Van Hollen: Attorney General Van Hollen reminds consumers beware of “phishing” scams

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Published Nov. 5, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

E-Mails link to phony look-alike websites of legitimate banks and credit companies - consumers tricked into providing private information used in identity theft crimeFor More Information Contact: ...

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Milwaukee council asks state to toughen gun laws

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Published Nov. 3, 2009 at 1:09 p.m.

Milwaukee aldermen called Tuesday for the Legislature to toughen gun laws - including some changes aimed at a controversial gun shop just outside the city limits.The Common Council urged lawmakers to adopt legislation that would require felons to stay 1,000 feet away from gun stores, shooting ranges and gun shows, and that would declare "straw buying" of guns to be a felony and failure to report stolen guns a crime.Those measures came partly in response to concerns about firearms sold at Badger

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Racine County Man Fights Crime

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Published Oct. 29, 2009 at 8:07 p.m.

A Racine County man fights crime and puts his life on the line to do the right thing ...

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Second brother sentenced in Cudahy fire

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Published Oct. 26, 2009 at 11:53 a.m.

The second of two brothers who pleaded guilty to accidently starting the July 5th fire at the Patrick Cudahy meat packing plant was sentenced Monday to spend the next three Julys at the House of Corrections.Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Dennis Cimpl gave 25-year-old Kurtis Popp the same sentence he gave his 23-year-old brother, Joshua Popp: a suspended sentence and three years of probation. As a condition of their probation, the brothers must each perform 500 hours of community service and

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