Grandma Drives Away Trouble On Her City's Toughest Streets
This 77-yr-old grandmother is making her neighborhood a better place because she doesn't back down from trouble.
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Clean-Up Superhero Caught on Camera Dancing While Picking Up Litter (WATCH)
Picking up trash is a snap–and a tap–for Milwaukee's ‘Dancing Litter Guy'
Police Officers Deliver Thanksgiving Dinners to Neighborhood Just in Time
Residents in low income housing in Wisconsin were able to enjoy Thanksgiving feasts, thanks to two police officers who delivered groceries to 51 homes.
Actors Help Veterans to Vent Emotions Using Shakespeare
Milwaukee theater professionals have been working with local veterans through intensive weekend workshops that allow emotions to boil from the cauldron of conflict within, using the words Shakespeare. The Feast of Crispian program, run out of the Milwaukee's Veterans Affairs hospital, has been such a success that last week it received a $50,000 grant from the Helen Bader Foundation to launch an all-veteran, fully-staged production of Julius Caesar.
Packers QB Aaron Rodgers Gives Girl Surprise of a Lifetime
Quarterback superstar Aaron Rodgers surprised a young lady, producing music with her. He also raised awareness for her group that benefit people with disabilities.
Whooping It Up! Cranes Return to the East
For the first time in more than a century, whooping cranes will migrate across the skies of eastern North America this fall.
Mom Adopts Hospice Babies No One Else Wants
This former nurse takes in terminally ill infants their parents have abandoned to give them a loving home for their short lives.
Once Polluted, The Milwaukee River is Now Clean and Valuable
Buoyed by tougher environmental regulations and $5 billion in improvements, the Milwaukee River is cleaner and more valuable economically and ecologically than at any point in the past 100 years.
Transforming Milwaukee's Vacant Lots Into A New Agricultural Economy
The Home Gr/own initiative is turning Milwaukee's thousands of vacant lots and idled citizens into a source of food and jobs in food production, processing, and distribution.
Man Uses Lottery Winnings to Buy Billboards to Help Save Women's Lives
A 79-year-old Milwaukee man decided to use all his $200,000 winnings to rent billboards that remind young women to pay attention to their health.
Ex-Cop and Ex-Con Stop Battling, Team Up for Second Chances (WATCH)
In an ironic twist, an ex-con has given a job to the retired policeman 8 years after the cop helped get his former foe the position.
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