Milwaukee Teens Sentenced in Bizarre Hit-and-Run Death

Anger and sadness filled a Milwaukee County Courtroom as a judge sentenced 19-year-old Troy Tiedke and 17-year-old Dominik Czerwinski on May 6 for their roles in the bizarre events that led to the hit-and-run death of 35-year-old Reeanna Ramazini last November. According to the criminal complaint, Tiedke, Czerwinski and Czerwinski’s girlfriend Star Boots were driving […]

Times may have changed, but LeVar Burton’s message has not

As part of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s annual Geek Week and Distinguished Lecture Series, LeVar Burton spoke to a diverse crowd of roughly 700 people Wednesday evening to show, through examples of his own work, that the power of storytelling can be used as a powerful teaching tool. Burton is known for a varied acting […]

One Glance Almost Killed Me

I should have been on a mortician’s table, not a hospital bed. It’s still hard to believe that I survived a rollover car crash without a seatbelt, all because my friend looked away for a split second. A late October night is perfection in my eyes. What could’ve made it better than going to a […]