AirTran this week unveiled a custom plane painted with throwback Milwaukee Brewers logos and colors to honor the club's 40th anniversary and the airline's partnership with the team.
A semitrailer got stuck on General Mitchell Boulevard near Miller Park at about 8 a.m. Saturday.
The tractor-trailer was wedged under the Interstate 94 overpass, officers said.The truck was carrying a load of Old Milwaukee beer, 12 News photographers said.An insurance adjuster at the scene told 12 News the truck was too tall to make the clearance.No one was injured and the semitrailer was removed just before 11 a.m.Other tractor-trailers got stuck in the same spot in March and November.
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The gruesome story of a Wisconsin killer and grave robber will be coming to the Sheboygan area tonight as a horror, musical, comedy movie. “Ed Gein, the Musical” will be shown at the Bradley Theatre at Lakeland College. Dan Davies of Appleton says they produced the movie on a budget of $9,000. It premiered in Milwaukee over the weekend. The movie was filmed in Wisconsin and based on the notorious killer and grave robber from Plainfield, Wisconsin who was arrest in 1957.
Harley-Davidson Inc. has told employees it may leave Milwaukee if it cannot cut millions of dollars in costs.
Harley spokesman Bob Klein said the company prefers to keep production in Wisconsin but will explore other U.S. sites if it cannot achieve the type of "concrete workable solutions" it needs.
A Chicago Cubs fan fell about head first over a railing at Miller Park as he attempted to catch a foul ball during batting practice this weekend. The 14-foot fall sent the 20-something Cubbies fan to the hospital.
A Brewers spokesperson said it is against club policy to comment, but the team's head athletic trainer Roger Caplinger said that man cut his face and was bleeding. The fan was conscious and taken off the field by first responders.
The incident held up batting practice for about 10 minutes.
On this date film and TV actress Charlotte Rae (aka Charlotte Lubotsky) was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Rae is best known for her role as Mrs. Edna Garrett, the house mother on the TV sitcom
The Facts of Life which aired from 1979 to 1986. She also portrayed Silvia Schnauser on Car 54-Where Are You? and Molly, the mail lady, on Sesame Street. [Source: Internet Movie Database]
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