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A popular seamstress and wedding dress designer, Becky Peelen, who owns Becky's Custom Sewing and Design, is retiring after 37 years of making the perfect dress for the perfect day.

Cesar Chavez Day events planned for later this month in Wisconsin are being canceled, postponed or renamed after alleged sexual abuse allegations about the famed labor leader surfaced this week. A New York Times investigation revealed several women reported Chavez sexually abused them for years when they were girls...

WAUWATOSA, Wis. - A police pursuit in Wauwatosa early Thursday, March 19, ended in a crash near Lisbon and the Highway 175 on-ramp, with a 13-year-old driver taken into custody. What we know:. According to the Wauwatosa Police Department, officers spotted a vehicle driving recklessly around 2:18 a.m. near 56th...

The Village of Brown Deer shared a post about the history of Lake Park in Milwaukee County, part of its Parkives series. The post highlights the park’s origins during the county’s park expansion from the 1890s to early 1900s.

For decades, the Indian Summer Festival was an important staple for Milwaukee’s Native community and a time for others to learn about Indigenous cultures. Traditionally held the weekend after Labor Day, it drew up to 45,000 visitors over three days for 32 years. Then it ended in 2019. More: Indian Summer Festival...

His impact is seen everywhere on South Cesar E. Chavez Drive. From the street signs and murals bearing his name or image to a life-sized statue of him in the parking lot of Nuevo Mercado El Rey — Cesar Chavez was revered by many on Milwaukee’s South Side.

MILWAUKEE (CN) — Former high-ranking Milwaukee elections official Kimberly Zapata urged a state appellate panel on Thursday to overturn her 2022 convictions for voter fraud and misconduct in public office, arguing she was actually a whistleblower. A jury convicted Zapata, 49, in March 2024 of one felony count of...

Azyia Zielinski was sentenced to 18 months probation for locking her six kids in a storage unit overnight with only a bucket to use as a toilet. The post Mom who locked 6 kids, including newborn, in 'putrid' storage unit overnight with only bucket for toilet will avoid prison first appeared on Law & Crime .

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Monday's blizzard is making it difficult for some drivers to get their cars out of the snow and ice. "It's really icy, and lots of snow," said Marissa Fucaraino, whose car is stuck in ice. Drivers tell CBS 58 while they understand Wisconsin can have a...

A 27-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of fatally shooting a man, woman and her unborn child near Darien and Green Tree on March 9.