Milwaukee Local News

WTMJ Cares is a month-long initiative to build an accessible playground in Menomonee Falls. Keep up with the whole project here.

Severe Weather Awareness Week is underway. 620 WTMJ is marking the week with a series of stories.

MILWAUKEE - Neighbors and family tell us there was a party going on in a house near 48th and Glendale on Milwaukee's north side when a two year old child ran outside and into the street. That child was hit by a passing vehicle. What happened next has devastated family members of the driver of that vehicle.

A 41-year old man was shot and killed after he hit a toddler with his vehicle.

The son of the former Menomoneee Falls village president is killed by a drunk driver in Florida.

An Associated Press review of DNR discipline records found 20 letters reprimanding, suspending or terminating employees last year.

A student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suffered a broken jaw and lost several teeth after he was attacked in the campus area.

The mother of a Wisconsin man accused of trying to join the Islamic State group says he's a mentally ill loner who often makes boastful comments to try to win acceptance.

DOJ turns over reports on Tony Robinson shooting to Dane County DA

RACINE - It's incredible to think, but Thursday's EF4 tornado blew stuff all the way from Northern Illinois to Racine County, 116 miles away. Amazingly, these items survived, and now, there's a mad search to find who they belong to.

MILWAUKEE -- Tax season is coming to an end this week, and there are some changes to be aware of.

MILWAUKEE -- The Port of Milwaukee is reporting a strong year in 2014.

SHOREWOOD -- Police in Shorewood are trying to track down two suspects after a bank robbery this morning.

FALL CREEK, Wis. (AP) -- A man who was driving a lawn tractor has died after his machine was struck by a train in Fall Creek, near Eau Claire.

GERMANTOWN -- A person was pulled from a fire not breathing and without a puse this morning in Germantown.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says his fellow Republican senators want to restore much or all of the $127 million that Governor Scott Walker has proposed cutting from public schools in the first year of his proposed budget.

Wisconsin was well-represented at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting.

Wisconsin basketball standout Sam Dekker announced Friday that he's going into the NBA draft instead of returning for his senior season.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is becoming something of a globe-trotter as world affairs loom large in the 2016 Republican presidential race and attention has been drawn to his early stumbles on foreign policy.

There are lots of ways you can help the victims of Thursday night's tornado in Fairdale and Rochelle, Illinois. Here's just a few: