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MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki honored veterans Monday. He took part in a ceremony at Milwaukee's historic Calvary Cemetery.

Volunteers from Wisconsin are heading south as states like Texas and Oklahoma deal with flash flooding.

A father and son have a week to clean up deplorable conditions on the two farms they own in Kenosha County.

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MILWAUKEE -- Construction projects are on hold in the state for Memorial Day, but road work season gets back in full gear Tuesday.

MILWAUKEE -- Customers of Wisconsin's largest utility caught a break this past winter. After paying almost $800 to keep warm during the "polar vortex" winter of 2013-14, bills for a typical We Energies customer were down by almost $190 for the six-month heating season that ended April 30. Company spokesman Brian Manthey told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that a typical customer's bill fell 24 percent to $596 for the season. "It's certainly a much better picture for customers than it was a year ago," he said. While this past winter was 9 percent colder than normal, the previous winter was even more frigid at 20 percent below average. "Because the price of natural gas remained stable and we didn't have those spikes we saw last year, natural gas was a very good value for our customers this year," Manthey said. Wisconsin utilities store much of their natural gas underground in Michigan. Statistics from the Energy Information Administration indicate more natural gas was withdrawn in December 2013 and January 2014 than at any point since at least 1990. So much gas was used so soon that utilities had to rely on increasingly expensive spot-market gas from the Gulf Coast, which pushed prices to levels not seen since 2005. Natural gas prices at a point in Chicago where utilities buy gas spiked above $40 per 1,000 cubic feet several times in the winter of 2013-14. Those prices never climbed above $11 this winter, Manthey said. The State Energy Office said propane and heating oil users also saw savings. Propane prices fell from the previous winter's record highs and finished the heating season down 25 percent at an average of $1.79 a gallon. Prices had jumped 60 percent amid shortages during the winter of 2013-14. Heating oil prices came down 21 percent this winter.

RACINE -- Monday is National Missing Children Day and the Racine County Sheriff's Office is asking for help identifying a 'Jane Doe' that was found dead in 1999.

It is Memorial Day, and while many Americans are looking ahead to golf, cookouts and time with family, it is important to remember why we have this holiday in the first place -- to honor the men and women who have given their lives and military service to our country.

WISCONSIN DELLS -- Authorities in Columbia County are using sonar to try to find the body of a 21-year-old Chicago man who disappeared in the Wisconsin River near Wisconsin Dells.

MILWAUKEE -- There are several special ceremonies in southeast Wisconsin Monday in honor of Memorial Day. One of those is at Wood National Ceremony in Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE -- A Milwaukee community is coming together to stand against violence.

UNION GROVE -- Tears and thank you's at a Memorial Day service in Racine County. A big crowd gathered in Union Grove to remember all those who died fighting in the Civil War to current battles. Charles Benson reports.

HALES CORNERS -- Another deadly motorcycle crash this Memorial Day weekend. The Medical Examiner was called to the scene of a crash in Hales Corner near Highway 100 and Forest Home. Todd Hicks reports.

No rain delay for a baseball tournament paying tribute to a local firefighter.

A man has died after he became trapped in a fiery pickup truck in Racine County.

Thousands of motorcycle riders are taking part in Rolling Thunder in the nation's capitol this Memorial Day weekend.

The "We Got This" movement is the brainchild of Andre Ellis. Last summer he challenged sixty young men to spend a few hours learning how to garden and he would pay them, out of his own picked.

MILWAUKEE—Police in Milwaukee are investigating a deadly crash that killed two women Saturday. The driver may have been intoxicated. Michele Fiore reports.

Police responded to a car versus motorcycle crash at 60th and Fairmount and found two on the bike, both ejected. The driver had a helmet and was transported to the hospital, but his female passenger, a 35 year old woman, did not make it. She was pronounced dead.

LEDGEVIEW -- A man fell nearly 50 feet from a cliff in Fonferek's Glen County Park on Friday, but lived to tell about it.