Milwaukee nun a victim of murder. Tonights big story shocked and saddened. Two sisters found stabbed to death at their mississippi home. One of those nuns has a milwaukee connection. Ashley sears has reaction from the School Sisters of st. Francis. Shes in the newsroom. Sister margaret held had been a member of that community for 49 years. Its based on milwaukees south side. Tonight those who knew her are heartbroken by her death. 09 35 this is one of the poorest counties in all of mississippi. For the past four decades. Sister margaret held has dedicated to her life to helping the people of rural mississippi. The nun worked as a her ministry. Her work was documented in an online video. 12 20 they know when you are genuine. I know when ive connected with them. But thursdaywhen held and sister Paula Merrill didnt show up to a clinic where they worked people worried. They were discovered stabbed to death inside their mississippi home. 33 16 shock and extremely sad. Held was a member of t
Visit fox6 now dot com or the fox6 news app youll find the post atop our home page. You can also search avery archive to view our collection of stories dating back to 2003. Officials are looking for the person or persons who murdered two nuns in mississippi. One of them grew up here in southeastern wisconsin. Julie collins spoke to a friend and colleague of theirs. She joins us live no good evening bev i spoke with Audrey Peterson a friend and colleague of both sisters margaret held and paula merrill. Peterson worked with them in mississippi shes calling their death an utter waste as these two nuns would do whatever they could to provide for the poorest of the community often paying for medications or providing services for those who couldnt afford it. Crime tape wrapped the home of two catholic nuns Sisters Police finding evidence of a break in a vehicle. Possibly stolen from the property. were going to cover every inch of this property to make sure that we dont miss anything and we p
In the suburbs, the difference today our wind, pretty much calm right now. We switch lit more owl of the south. Over the weekends more northerly, north wind keeps humidity levels lower. Now the south wind start to increase the moisture content in the air. Few clouds will roll in later this morning, into the afternoon, actually, weak cold front. That will try to pason by. Maybe a stray shower but most areas stay dry. Breakdown, by noontime, already upper 80s, it will be a warm lunch hour. Topping off into the low 90s, in a lot of locations inland, so 91 for philadelphia should be low and mid 80s, still breeze over the water, sunshine over 84 degrees, near eight for the High Temperature in the poconos. Now when we head to the upcoming holiday weekends, we will be talking about High Temperatures returning, actually, below average, havent seen that in a while, seven day forecast coming up in just a bit. Back to meisha with a check on the latest road conditions. Justin, good morning, everyo
And more about zika and how its transmitted. We know its transmitted sexually now. We know the devastating consequences that it can have on pregnant women, and now we have expanding area in florida of locally transmitted infections. In fact, there has been one case identified of infected blood in florida. Now, its no danger to the blood supply, but certainly, that just shines the light on the fact that this is something we need to be doing now. Brown and whats going to be involved in setting this up . Theres no question that its this implemented in such a quick time frame. The recommendation has been that 11 states implement this process within four weeks. And new york is one of those states. And for the rest of the country, within 12 weeks. Its going to require resources, and planning, and funding. And yet again, one more reason for congress to really take action when they come back into session, making sure that we have the resources funding we we need to implement this on a widescal
Classrooms. At least 48 people were injured. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Another earthquake strikes central italy as the region tries to recover from wednesdays deadly quake. The 4. 7 quake struck near amatrice. Victims are still being pulled from beneath the debris of collapsed buildings in three towns. Survivors and rescue crews received into the scare on thursday. A 4. 3 rattling amatrice. As you can see from the video. There have been nearly 500 aftershocks since thursday morning. On wednesday a u. S. Navy patrol ship fired three warning shots at an iranian boat that came within 20 0 yards of the uss tempest, ignoring radio calls and warning flairs. Its the latest of all too Close Encounters this week. Our sailors were conducting themselves professionally as they are trained to do, and we did not see the same from the iranian boats on the other side. Firing warning shots is rare and hasnt happened in a long time in encounters with iran. Pentagon officials stre