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Grey clouds loomed over Washington High School’s now bleak campus that was once filled with lively children. A musky smell overtook the air just before rainfall as a crisp breeze swept through the holes of a black chain link fence that sat in front of the basketball and track field. The paint was worn and […]
University of Wisconsin physician Dr. Beth Potter and her husband Robin Carre were murdered by their daughter’s boyfriend after being kicked out for not social distancing, prosecutors say. A runner discovered Potter and Carre around 6 a.m. on March 31, lying in a ditch in the UW Arboretum near the intersection of Arboretum Drive and […]
The scenes at the polls during Wisconsin’s unprecedented mid-pandemic election were very different depending on where you were. That’s what a team of student journalists learned when they spanned out to interview election officials – including county and city clerks and poll workers – throughout the state on the day after the election. In the […]
Across from Riverside High School, one of five polling places in Milwaukee holding in-person voting for the April 7 election, UW-Milwaukee student Abigail Klug watched from her apartment as a line formed near the school. What started as six or eight people became a several-hour wait by the afternoon, the line stretching behind the school […]
The body that Milwaukee Police pulled from the Milwaukee River last night has been identified by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner as University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student Sean Baek, 18, who had been missing for 45 days. Milwaukee Police said yesterday that they responded to a report of a body in the river near a pier […]
Milwaukee police say a body was found in the Milwaukee River today near Fratney and Commerce in Riverwest. According to Milwaukee police, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Police Department also responded to the call. (Update: on March 31, 2020, it was confirmed that the body was that of missing UWM student Sean Baek. You can read […]
In a conference room on the first floor of Cambridge Commons residence hall, just down the hall from the main entrance where University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student Sean Baek was last seen almost three weeks earlier, a vigil was held for him. The standard refreshments sat on a table on one side of the room. Flanking […]