Oak Creek Local News

A dozen roses simply weren't enough for a Nebraska man who wanted "to do something special" for his wife to celebrate her last chemotherapy treatment. So, he raised money and surprised her with 500.

A 57-year-old man was shot and killed by police inside a Jackson home Friday night, police said.

A fire left one woman dead in Mount Pleasant late Friday night.

Milwaukee Police say a man suffered a medical emergency at Summerfest on Friday night and died.

A 7-year-old girl is presumed dead, and her father and his girlfriend, who recently lived in Milwaukee, are under arrest.

Sherman Park has been the scene of confrontations between crowds of people and police officers and sheriff's deputies this week, but Friday night was much different. 

The father of a child paralyzed in a drunk driving crash appeared in court Friday to face the driver, who has been ordered to stand trial.

Amid recent violence around the Sherman Park neighborhood in Milwaukee, elected officials can't seem to agree on how to end it.

A routine water test last week finds a higher than usual amount of minerals in the water supply at Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College’s new Center for Advanced Care, according to a spokeswoman. 

Prosecutors have charged a 27-year-old Wisconsin man with trying to kill a woman and toddler at a Minnesota intersection.

Officials are investigating a wire transfer that sent $87,760 from Washington County to criminal bank accounts.

Two people are dead following a serious crash in Sussex Thursday night, the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department said.

O.J. Mayo was dismissed and disqualified from the NBA on Friday for violating the terms of the league's anti-drug program, the first player to receive that punishment in a decade.

A Manitowoc woman is in police custody after being suspected of threatening on of her neighbors with a firearm over an argument about a missing duck.

A moving truck lost its roof Friday morning while attempting to drive under a low train bridge.

They're being replaced by Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and longtime Republican activist Don Taylor.

Shanika Minor was wanted in the shooting deaths of a pregnant woman, Tamecca Perry, and her unborn child.

Neighbors in the normally quiet neighborhood near Marshall Drive and Menomonee River Parkway say agents showed up with guns drawn at about 6 a.m.

Madison police say an officer fatally shot a man after he emerged from a lake, broke into a home and "aggressed" toward the officer with a pitchfork.

Police are warning Summerfest-goers about ticket scams that could leave them outside festival park gates for the night.