A resident in the 4200 block of South 61st Street reported to police an unknown person taped a “Useful Idiots” sign on top of his “Stand with Walker” yard sign sometime before 9:30 a.m. May 12.

Another political sign was reported damaged sometime during the night in the 4200 block of South 70th Street, according to the police log.

Those and the following incidents were..... Read More

At first glance, there is nothing out of the ordinary about Laura Cerletty’s Anatomy and Physiology class.

Some of her Whitnall High School students squirm when told how to crack the lab rat's jaw with a scissors, and others perk up when Cerletty told them a student in the previous class had a rat intestine more than 100 centimeters long.

The dissection and studying of rats helps students better understand how their own bodies work..... Read More

CALEDONIA — 27-year-old Holly Bankenbush faces a felony theft charge for allegedly stealing from her boyfriend’s family and then selling the stolen goods for cash at shops around southeast Wisconsin.

According to the criminal complaint, a sales clerk at Robert Haack Diamonds in Greenfield was suspicious of Bankenbush for “selling items which were believed to be beyond Bankenbush’s economic level.”

Bret Euhlberg owns Robert Haack Diamonds and is used to people coming into his store and selling jewelry for cash. “We actually talk to them and get the story for their item. We write little notes on our buy sheet, and we call our detective saying, ‘hey, come in and take a look at this,’” Euhlberg said.