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Angry Wisconsin man does $12,000 worth of damage to wife's $6,000 car

Posted on June 7, 2011

A Wisconsin man became angry over his wife wanting a separation and now could spend three years in prison for putting water in her car’s gas tank.

Dino Spinelli reportedly did $12,000 worth of damage to a car worth $6,000. He has reportedly apologized for the incident but still had to make a court appearance in Waukesha County this week on a charge of felony criminal damage to property.

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Waukesha girl's sweet gift touches troops

Posted on April 21, 2011

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Col. Richard Fischer presents Mackenzie Frost, 8, with a flag flown in Iraq, during a special school assembly at Hawthorne Elementary School in Waukesha. Frost's father was killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq in 2008. She and the other members of Girl Scout Troop 2653 sent Girl Scout cookies to U.S. service members deployed oversees. She wrote a letter telling of her father's love of the cookies and his death in Iraq, to which the service members responded, sending her a care package which included the flag...

Photo Credit: Kristyna Wentz-Graff

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Filed under  //   Girl Scouts   Waukesha   children   cookies   military  

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Happy Birthday to guitar legend Les Paul

Posted on June 9, 2010

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On this date guitarist Les Paul (aka Lester Polfus) was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Best known for the guitar that bears his name, Les Paul was a country-music guitarist, jazz-pop musician and pioneer in music technology. In 1941, Paul built his first solid-body electric guitar and over the next decade he developed revolutionary engineering techniques such as close miking, echo delay, and multi-tracking.

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