Author: Reporter

Milwaukee loves its Miller Beer, Brewers baseball, and “Bronze Fonz” statue. The deepest blue city in swing state Wisconsin, Milwaukee also loves Democrats. So it can be hard for some to swallow that Milwaukee is playing host to former President Donald Trump and the Republican National Convention next week while rival Chicago, the larger city just 90 miles to the south, welcomes President Joe Biden and Democrats in August. It did not help smooth things over with wary Democrats after Trump used the word “horrible” when talking about Milwaukee just a month before the convention that begins Monday. Adding...

Convicted felon and ex-President Donald Trump was the target of an apparent assassination attempt on July 13 at a Pennsylvania rally, days before he was to seize the Republican nomination for a third time in Milwaukee. Gunfire triggered panic in the crowd. A bloodied Trump, who said he was shot in the ear, was surrounded by Secret Service and hurried to his SUV. Trump’s campaign said the presumptive GOP nominee was doing “fine” after the shooting, which he said pierced the upper part of his right ear. “I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a...

With chants of “Justice for D’Vontaye,” family and friends gathered on July 11 for the funeral of a Black man who died after being pinned to the ground by security guards outside a Milwaukee hotel. And while remembering D’Vontaye Mitchell as a son, husband, and brother, they vowed to push for charges against those responsible for his death. “We’re going to fight. We’re not going to give up,” his mother, Brenda Giles, said at Milwaukee’s Holy Redeemer Institutional Church of God in Christ. Mitchell was held down on his stomach June 30 outside the hotel. Police have said he...

Cyberattacks against water utilities across the country are becoming more frequent and more severe, the Environmental Protection Agency warned in May as it issued an enforcement alert urging water systems to take immediate actions to protect the nation’s drinking water. About 70% of utilities inspected by federal officials over the last year violated standards meant to prevent cyberthreats, the agency said. Officials urged even small water systems to improve protections against cyberattacks, noting that recent assaults from adversarial nation states like Russia and Iran have impacted water systems of all sizes. Some water systems are falling short in basic...

With summer underway, many people flocking to their favorite swimming holes may also want to read up on bacteria warnings. Over the busy Memorial Day weekend and shortly afterward, at least 20 people, most of them children, reported E. coli infections after they swam in Lake Anna, a popular recreational destination in central Virginia. Nine of those people were hospitalized. An additional 10 cases are under investigation. In Massachusetts, 22 beaches were closed across the state in June. “Bacteria exceedance” accounted for more than half of the shutdowns. On the West Coast, high bacteria levels shut down three beaches...