Author: Gretchen Ehlke
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Grandfather, Navy vet among 5 victims of Wisconsin shooting
MILWAUKEE • The five men who were killed by a co-worker at a Milwaukee brewery include an electrician, a Navy veteran, a father of two small children, a fisherman and a grandfather who is being remembered as someone who “always put his family’s needs before his own.” Authorities said the five men were working at…
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Police: Gunman killed 5 at Milwaukee brewery complex
MILWAUKEE • An employee opened fire Wednesday at Milwaukee’s Molson Coors complex, killing five fellow workers before taking his life, police said. The gunman was identified as a 51-year-old Milwaukee man who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. “There were five individuals who went to work today, just like everybody goes to work,…
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After Wisconsin girl’s safe return, many questions remain
BARRON, Wis. — A 21-year-old man killed a Wisconsin couple in a scheme to kidnap their teenage daughter, then held the girl captive for nearly three months before she managed to escape and reach safety as he drove around looking for her, authorities said. Jayme Closs, 13, was skinny, disheveled and wearing shoes too big…
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Wisconsin man arrested in Jayme Closs’ abduction, parents’ deaths
BARRON, Wis. — A 21-year-old unemployed man shot a Wisconsin couple to death in a scheme to kidnap their 13-year-old daughter, holding the girl captive for three months in an isolated north woods community before she managed to escape, authorities said Friday. Jayme Closs was skinny, disheveled and wearing shoes too big for her when…
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Wisconsin man drives to hospital with nail shot into his chest
MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin man who doctors say came perilously close to death after accidentally shooting a nail into his heart while working on his house calmly drove himself to the hospital and even parked his pickup truck in the lot before walking into the emergency room. Doug Bergeson is ready to get back to…
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Manifesto-writing fugitive found camping on Wisconsin farm
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin fugitive accused of stealing an arsenal of firearms and sending an anti-government manifesto to the White House was arrested Friday after a retired school counselor found him camping on his property and calmly talked to the man before calling authorities. The arrest of Joseph Allen Jakubowski settled fears among residents…
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Some of the youngest opioid victims are curious toddlers
MILWAUKEE — Curious toddlers find the drugs in a mother’s purse or accidentally dropped on the floor. Sometimes a parent fails to secure the child-resistant cap on a bottle of painkillers. No matter how it happens, if a 35-pound toddler grabs just one opioid pill, chews it and releases the full concentration of a time-released…