So the three-year John Doe criminal investigation some hoped would terminate the political career of Republican Gov. Scott Walker ends not with a bang, but a whimper

  An independent audit of the Milwaukee Police Department’s (MPD) crime data showed that, contrary to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s reporting, the department did not manipulate statistics to paint a rosier picture

This always stings: The Championship and Moon Curse lost some pretty nice equipment last night when their practice space was broken into. In a post on their Facebook page this afternoon, The Championship asked friends to keep an eye out for the following black-market gear: Fender Jazz Deluxe – American made5-screw star bolted neckSunburstActive pickupsHi-Mid-Lo tone controlsSerial Numbered - ???...

 Brad Pitt reunites with Andrew Dominik, director of the elegiac western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, for a highly stylized, awfully brutal, sharply critical gangster picture, Killing Them Softly

Sean Chercover, author of the Chicago-based thrillers Big City, Bad Blood and Trigger City, brings readers a new crime drama that mixes mystery and intrigue with unpredictable twists and fascinating plotlines. The Trinity Game, full of heart-pounding action...

Charles “Shake” Bouchon thought that escaping to exotic Belize and opening a small restaurant on the beach would be the perfect way to leave behind his life of crime. However, trouble seems to follow Shake, the lead character in Lou Berney...

“We have been reporting our crime data honorably...

In Herself When She's Missing, local author Sarah Terez Rosenblum paints a portrait of a tumultuous female relationship that involves mid-20s protagonist Andrea and her on-again, off-again girlfriend, Jordan. Through clever metaphors...

Stalin’s policies led to the imprisonment of millions, and when those policies were denounced by his successor, Khrushchev, everyone expected those millions to be freed—but not everyone was happy with the idea. Miriam Dobson closely examines little-known aspects of what followed through meticulous archival research, unearthing...

This year was a crucial test for RiverSplash!, Milwaukee's inaugural summer music festival. After an inordinate number of altercations at last year's festival�most damning among them a non-fatal shooting�city officials threatened to pull the plug on the event if organizers couldn't curb the problems. This was a pass/fail test: Any major incident at this year's event would have almost certainly pro...