Joyce you may remember the unrest over the summer in sherman park. Kathy but tonight Mike Anderson reports, there are more signs of hope and healing. Randy jones had been looking for his dream house for years. Four years ago, he found it in sherman park. Made possible through a project called milwaukee rising. Now i kin tell people this is where you want to be. Toni wagner is a long time sherman park resident and member of the milwaukee rising board. They havbrought life to sherman park housing before and since the unrest rehabbing , houses that had been foreclosed. We got hold of five major banks, have them get us 30 million to renovate, to help with mortgages, and so from 75 homes, and we have another 25 to go. And they sell those homes at market value from 85,000 to 140,000. Randy paid just over 100,000 for his. It has that second bathroom upstairs. This is where i hang out. Milwaukee rising is an arm of the organization Common Ground and they have gone from 300 , Vacant Properties
Whether Brendan Dassey will be released from prison, hes serving a life sentence for the mushed of teresa halbach. Earlier in the year the conviction was over turned and ordered a new trial. Yesterday the state attorney general filed an appeal to stop the release. He said that the attorneys are claiming that the o confession was coerced and even if it was, it is not meaning that dassey didnt help his uncle kill halbach and should be considered a Public Safety issue. He asked the court of appeals to decide on the emergency motion by this afternoon. The attorney is hoping hes coming home for thanksgiving. It is the first of its kind program in milwaukee, warrant wednesday. It is a chance to have warrants time. Hillary mintz is live at the court with a look ahead. Good morning, hillary. Reporter good morning, melinda, this is an offer a lot of people cant refuse, getting rid of their warrant, no cost, no jail, a clean slate. Today is the final day to show up here. At the last two events m
Look at this American Flag the ocean. We have Live Team Coverage from janice dean tracking the storms path. Griff is live in port st. Lucie. Is there a change . Reporter the outer bands of dorian parked over there bashing the bahamas. We are on the seawall of the indian river and some large waves, the highest wind gusts with 62 miles an hour but that is producing with the king tied coming over breaking the seawall, on the outside hutchison island, mandatory evacuation but this is why officials are worried about a storm surge, 150 miles away is Tropical Storm windss, 45 miles out of hurricane winds. Should dorian move a little west it is going to make things even worse but flooding, this is the storm surge people are worried about, lowlying areas, a slowmoving storm is going to make it worse. In st. Lucie county, the Spokesman Says he is worried people will get complacent because they keep worrying about a storm. We are seeing crews to the state level making sure we have whatever suppli
Stalled literally over the bahamas along with heavy winds and storm surges, 30 inches of rain could fall in some isolated areas. Videos show devastating damage in the abaco islands with homes nearly fully submerged with water. The devastation is unprecedented. We are in the midst of a historic tragedy in parts of northern bahamas. Our mission and focus now is search, rescue and recovery. I ask for your prayers for those in affected areas and for our first responders. Officials there said they received a tremendous number of calls for rescue, but in many places conditions remain unsafe to respond. We are tracking dorians impact on florida, as well, where thunderstorms from the outer bands of this storm are already dropping rain on some areas. We will go live to florida to discuss some of that. Dorian is expected to track along floridas coast over the next few days where everyone is keeping a very close eye on the storm, no one more so than bill carens. The Hurricane Center is finding th
This week, we’re tackling a subject many of my readers write to me about, expressly delivery vehicles. Nowadays, things have changed drastically as the boom in online shopping has resulted