OnMilwaukee.com Metro Headlines

Home
Featured
City
County

Featured Advertiser:

Keywords:

PepsiCo Ordered To Pay Over $1 Billion To Local Men

Tagged with:

county, waukesha

Published Oct. 28, 2009 at 11:21 p.m.

Pepsi Cola was ordered to pay more than $1 Billion to two Waukesha County men who accused the company of stealing their idea to bottle and sell purified water ...

Read

Flu-like symptoms force a Falls school to close

Tagged with:

Zion Lutheran School in Menomonee Falls closed Tuesday and will keep students out of the school for a week after many students stayed home with flu-like symptoms.Several students were absent Monday and as many as one-quarter of the 102 students were absent Tuesday, a school official said.A handful of schools have closed in recent weeks as concern has spread about swine flu spreading in schools this fall. School officials said they don't know whether students had the H1N1 virus, but said they

Read

BizTimes Bubbler: Kelley takes helm at Waukesha Chamber

Tagged with:

county, waukesha

Published Sept. 24, 2009 at 11:55 a.m.

Meet Suzanne Kelley, the new president of the Waukesha County Chamber of ...

Read

Body Pulled From Pewaukee Lake

Tagged with:

county, waukesha

Published Sept. 20, 2009 at 9:05 a.m.

The body of a 69-year-old Waukesha county man has been pulled from Pewaukee Lake ...

Read

Waukesha Man Accused Of Killing Girlfriend

Tagged with:

county, waukesha

Published Sept. 16, 2009 at 6:54 p.m.

A Waukesha County man is accused of killing his girlfriend just days after he got out of jail ...

Read

Warning Issued After Alleged Attempted Abduction

Tagged with:

county, waukesha

Published Sept. 15, 2009 at 6:14 p.m.

The Waukesha County Sheriff's office issued a warning after what they believe was an attempted abduction ...

Read

Milwaukee-area agencies get transportation funds

Tagged with:

american, area, county, milwaukee, waukesha, wisconsin

Published Aug. 20, 2009 at 1:35 p.m.

Waukesha Metro, Washington County Transit Services, Ozaukee County Transit and the city of Racine were among the Wisconsin transportation authorities to receive $27.4 million in federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds for transit improvement ...

Read

Les Paul will be buried Friday in Waukesha

Tagged with:

county, waukesha, waukesha's

Published Aug. 17, 2009 at 4:34 p.m.

Les Paul, "the Wizard of Waukesha" who pioneered the development of the solid-body electric guitar, will be interred at Waukesha's Prairie Home Cemetery on Friday, the cemetery manager, David Brenner, said Monday.Paul, a Waukesha native, died of pneumonia Aug. 13 at age 94 in a hospital in White Plains, N.Y. He lived in Mahwah, N.J.The Gibson Guitar company, know worldwide for its Les Paul Gibson guitar, announced last week that services honoring Paul would be held in New York City, where Paul

Read

Waukesha museum plans Paul memorial

Tagged with:

county, waukesha, waukesha's

Published Aug. 14, 2009 at 10:32 a.m.

The Waukesha County Museum is inviting Waukesha County fans of Les Paul to stop by, see without charge a make-shift memorial of some of Les Paul's items, and sign a guest book.Among the items, which eventually will be part of the museum's long-planned permanent exhibit to Waukesha's native son, are the musical wizard's handprints in cement.Jim Hahn, director of development and marketing for the Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum, said museum officials are also developing plans for a

Read