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The Hip-Hop Chess Club of Wisconsin started four years ago, and operated out the back of a West Allis bar that was called Only on Tuesdays, then moved to Flip n Styles barber shop at South Eighth Street and West National Avenue until the pandemic interrupted meetings and events. “Covid hit and we just haven’t […]

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has not been able to hire enough workers within many departments, especially in the dining halls.  It is no secret that students need jobs during their college years and many of them look for one inside the university. Although there are signs all around campus admiring the work environment of the union and dining halls, those signs don’t mention what happens behind the scenes.   The […]

A line of customers overflows into the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Union hallway from the Grind Café, as four baristas froth milk and pull espresso in a hurry. A student employee and a manager stand together at the cash register, taking orders behind a plexiglass window. There’s a sign taped to it that reads, “New […]

A young prince chases the apparition of his father through a dark and dilapidated forest. The phantom demands that the prince avenges his death by killing his murdered, his dear brother Claudius before he disappears into a giant, rotting tree. Ariana Manghera, 21, plays the character of Hamlet in the first two acts, sharing the […]

Nudos Rosas is an arts and crafts store that is specialized in macramé, and Isabel Miranda, the daughter of the company owner, said she was excited to work at a Milwaukee Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival. “We were invited here as a Latinx business,” Miranda said. “I was super excited because […]

Kyle Rittenhouse broke down crying on the stand Wednesday as he testified that he feared for his own safety prior to killing two men and injuring one with his rifle during the 2020 civil unrest in Kenosha. On Aug. 25, 2020, Illinois teenager Kyle Rittenhouse, 17 at the time, was in Kenosha during protests following […]

With gas prices being at their highest point in nearly a decade, many drivers are left wondering why it costs so much to fill up, and how long this price increase will last. Matt Gotsch has the story.

Community members along with UW-Milwaukee faculty and students stood behind safety bars as they watched the last couple of stones being installed in the new Electa Quinney Institute Fire Circle last Tuesday.   Celeste Clark, the multicultural student success coordinator at UWM, said she was so excited when she saw the first stone being placed that she had to take a picture of it.   “It was a historical event for […]

Justin Blake, Jacob Blake’s Uncle, came to UWM on Tuesday to speak to UWM students and to protest the dropped charges in the Jacob Blake case.  The UW-Milwaukee chapter of Students for Democratic Society (SDS) organized the rally on Tuesday in Spaights Plaza to promote CPAC and demand justice for Jacob Blake.  In August 2020, a 29-year-old black man, Jacob Blake, was shot several […]

A gunman open fired and killed a woman, mother of three, and wounded 14 others right before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a Tennessee Kroger yesterday. Collierville Police Chief Dale Lane identified the gunman as Uk Thang, 29, a third-party vendor for Kroger. Lane did not want to give out the name on […]

Uk Thang, 29, was responsible for the mass shooting that occurred on Sept. 23 in Collierville, Tennessee said police. There were 15 victims in the shooting; of the 15, 10 were employees and five were customers. 14 victims were wounded, and Olivia King died after initially being in critical condition. Eight of the wounded patients […]

A Collierville man killed at least one person and injured at least 14 others at a Kroger grocery store before committing suicide with, what seems to be, a self-inflicted gunshot yesterday, according to police. After entering the Kroger store, the suspect, former Kroger third-party vendor, Uk Thang, 29, let off multiple shots, wounding innocent employees […]