Nation Nov 23 Waukesha parade-goers recount moments of horror Hours before it started, they were already there — people sitting on lawn chairs or wrapped in blankets, awaiting an event the city’s mayor described as straight out of Norman Rockwell. The Waukesha Christmas Parade, a tradition in its Milwaukee…
Arts Nov 23 Waukesha parade crash devastates holiday favorites ‘Dancing Grannies’ In the devastation wrought by an SUV driver plowing into a suburban Milwaukee Christmas parade, no group was hit harder than the Dancing Grannies.
Nation Apr 22 Hundreds gather for Minneapolis funeral of Daunte Wright Hundreds of mourners wearing COVID-19 masks packed into Shiloh Temple International Ministries to remember Wright, a 20-year-old father of one who was shot by a police officer on April 11 in the small city of Brooklyn Center.
Politics Nov 04 Trump supporters demand Michigan vote center ‘stop the count!’ Video shot by local journalists showed dozens of people gathered outside the TCF Center in Detroit and inside the lobby, with policemen lined up to keep them from going into the counting area.
Nation Jun 04 WATCH: George Floyd remembered at memorial service in Minneapolis The memorial services to honor George Floyd are extraordinary: three cities over six days, with a chance for mourners to pay their respects in the communities where he was born, grew up, and died.
Nation Jun 03 WATCH: Murder charge upgraded in Floyd case, 3 other cops charged Prosecutors are charging a Minneapolis police officer accused of pressing his knee against George Floyd's neck with second-degree murder, and for the first time are leveling charges against three other officers.
Nation May 31 Protests flare again in US amid calls to end police violence Curfews were imposed in major cities around the U.S., including Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. About 5,000 National Guard soldiers and airmen were activated in 15 states and Washington, D.C.
Nation May 31 U.S. cities assess protest damage, await another day of unrest America’s cities boarded up windows, swept up glass and covered graffiti Sunday as the country's most significant night of protests in a half-century promised to spill into another day of unrest fueled by killings of black people at the hands…
Nation May 31 ‘We’re sick of it’: Anger over police killings shatters U.S. The scale of the protests, extending to nearly every part of the country and unfolding on a single night, seemed to rival the historic demonstrations of the civil rights and Vietnam eras. And by Sunday morning, the outrage had spread…
Nation May 31 Protests over police killings rage in dozens of US cities Tense protests over the death of George Floyd and other police killings of black people grew Saturday from New York to Tulsa to Los Angeles, with police cars set ablaze and reports of injuries mounting on all sides as the…