The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Teen Baits Sex Offender; Online Requests for Sex End Up in the Hands of West Bend Police

West Bend - A spunky 16-year-old West Bend girl pretended to flirt online with a 31-year-old Milwaukee man, then delivered a swift cyber-kick in the pants when he asked her to have sex with him. "There are many children in this world that fall into sick- minded traps like yours everyday," she wrote in her reply. "They usually end up getting hurt, kidnapped and/or killed. I, however, am not one of those children, nor will I ever become one."

Union Contract; the Long View at Harley

Workers at Harley-Davidson Inc. swallowed hard, then did what they had to do on Tuesday. The entire community should be grateful. By approving concessions, the United Steelworkers secured a $120 million expansion by Harley in the Milwaukee area and at least 100 new jobs.

Obituary; Wwii Vet Found New Thrills Late in Life; 80th Birthday Included Solo Parachute Jump

It doesn't seem so long ago that, as a young man, I wondered how the old people, who had come to pay their last respects to friends and relatives, could laugh and chat as though the deceased were alive and well . . . I understand now what was so great a mystery then. For whenever someone departs our thinning ranks, I go to pay my respects.

Judge Puts Boy in Father's Custody; White Foster Parents Had Fought in Court to Keep African-American Toddler

An African-American father on Wednesday won his emotional and legal battle to gain custody of his son from white foster parents who have raised the boy since his birth nearly two years ago. Milwaukee County Children's Court Judge David Borowski, who presided over a five day trial in October, explained his findings during a nearly two-hour hearing. As he thanked foster parents Susan and David Harling for their great care of the child, Susan Harling began to weep. When he announced his actual r...

Takes Five; Salam Al-Marayati; Working to Debunk Myths About Muslim Americans

Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council, will talk on "Overcoming Exclusion and Bigotry in America" in a free lecture at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, 4707 S. 13th St. The council, with an office in Washington, D.C., lobbies for American Muslims' civil rights and has other activities. It denounced the Taliban in Afghanistan and condemned suicide bombings in Israel, the Ayatollah Khomeini's call for novelist Salman Rus...

Fire Injures 3 at Bartolotta Plant; Family Fireworks Business Had Fatal Blaze in 1991

Genesee - Three members of the famous Bartolotta Fireworks Co. family were burned Wednesday in a blaze at their factory west of Waukesha, and two of them face weeks of painful rehabilitation with serious burns on the face, scalp, hands and arms. Rocco Bartolotta, 22, and Dominic Bartolotta, 30, were in the general burn ward at Columbia St. Mary's, Milwaukee Campus on Wednesday evening after having spent much of the day in the intensive care unit.

Laurel Walker; in My Opinion; Woman's Search for Family Hits Roadblock

Sue Hall holds no ill will because the woman who gave her life 58 years ago put her up for adoption. What happened, happened.

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Quick Hit

Ironic that University of Wisconsin-Madison instructor and Sept. 11 conspiracy theorist Kevin Barrett lectured students recently, "Your tax dollars are paying for the killing of American soldiers in Iraq" while Wisconsin tax dollars are squandered disseminating his drivel in the name of "academic freedom." Since his course on Islam won't be offered in the spring (though it will be next fall), let's hope Barrett's 15 minutes of fame are coming to a close. Mabel Wong, Perspectives editor

Conservation; It's Time for a Water Czar

An idea whose time has come may actually be on its way, something that doesn't always happen in Wisconsin. The idea is water conservation, and it could arrive in the form of an efficiency chief hired by the state Public Service Commission to coordinate and monitor water conservation efforts. Eric Callisto, a PSC executive assistant, told a special legislative committee that the public is ready to embrace water conservation and accept that the resource needs protection. We concur. Through arti...

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