Puente says the result will be less babies getting the care they need. We know that the earlier were involved in that 03 time of a childs life, that theyre more likely to be set up to have a successful future. Dcf says the program could receive more funding in the future if the home visits serve a high number of families and additional money becomes available. Its time for your news and weather together. All charges against him for shooting and killing 5yearold laylah petersen. Thats the verdict reached by a jury late this afternoon. Barrett is one of three men accused in the 2014 shooting. Invetigators say he fired multiple shots into petersens grandparents home mistaking it for another home. The two other men involved in the shooting pleaded guilty they will both be sentenced later this year. Northwestern mutual a big employer in milwaukee jobs will be cut this year with hundreds more in the coming years. Northwestern mutual is the 9th largest employer in the area with almost 6thousa
All charges one of the men responsible for the shooting death of 5yearold Laylah Petersen is heading to prison it only took the jury three hours to come back with its guilty verdict. Tonight a Family Member of the victim says she hopes he never gets out. Our Ben Handelman is in the newsroom. Found guilty of firing a gun into the home where petersen was sitting on her grandfathers lap. Two other men have already pleaded guilty to their roles in the crime. An aunt says todays decision means justice for the little girl. If she was still alive today Laylah Petersen would have turned 7 last week. I look at her everyday and give her a kiss every day. And i know she is watching over us. Instead her aunt Kathy Petersen is left with pictures have the strength. Life doesnt stop. Petersen was sitting on her grandfathers lap in 2014, when bullets came piercing through the wall. The family waited nearly a year for arrests. And nearly another year for this day. It feels like a weight is lifted. But
Next low but saturday afternoon and we can enjoy some cool, falltype air by sunday afternoon with highs slipping to the low 70s. We stay in the seasonal range for early next week but slip to the cooler side by midweek. Today cloudy with a few early showers then clearing to mostly sunny by the later afternoon. Becoming less humid with falling dewpoints. High 84 dewpoint 68 wind w 510 mph traffic check red on traffic map major delays yellow on traffic map some delays green on traffic map no delays many communities in the milwaukee area saw flash flooding last night. We find Julie Collins live this morning near 38th and lincoln where they saw some of the worst of it julie . Good morning this morning all normal late last night. But around dinner time that rain fell quickly making these streets look more lakes the rain came pouring down and then shortly there after the wind. Neighbors watched as trees snapped and fell onto the street making many of them impassable. However, car after car te
Firefighters and volunteers dumped all these sandbags to stop the water from getting to st. Johns lutheran school. Now lutheran school. Now that the water is gone, the clean up effort begins. Crews are removing the concrete barriers and sandbags dumped on Bridge Street yesterday when a gush of water flooded the road. The rising waters forced School Leaders to evacuate 2 schools. En were also emptied at parkview primary. Firefighters from several departments jumped in. They spent hours using hoses to pump the water away. Volunteers also came out dozens filling up sandbags to keep the water out. It was definitely more than 6 inches. We have low lying areas here. I would say some areas 67 feet deep. St. Johns is not Holding Classes today but teachers are here mopping up. The other school , park view elementary did reopen this morning. And classes resumed field at hartland high school. A viewer posted this picture to our facebook page. We checked in with the High School Principal he says t
Firetrucks, police officers and a special guest, Midas the K-9, all were a big hit with students at Curtisville Primary during the school’s annual Safety Day on Thursday. Youngsters in kindergarten through second grade were excited to learn about the first responders who serve the Deer Lakes communities. On hand