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Kid-friendly Milwaukee restaurants: 2010

Published Feb. 14, 2010 at 3:13 p.m.

Sure, kids love chowing out of boxes at the golden arches, but Milwaukee is filled with many other easy, affordable restaurants just waiting to clean the food, sugar packets and forgotten small toys from under your table.

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Another co-sleeping death in Milwaukee

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Published Feb. 13, 2010 at 3:46 p.m.

Co-sleeping claims the life of another Milwaukee baby. According to the medical examiner's report, the three-month-old girl died Sunday morning at her home on 18Th and Rogers, after sleeping in the same bed as her teenage mom and two-year-old sibling ...

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Milwaukee Mother Shoots Son During Prank

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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 8:04 p.m.

A prank turns to terror on Milwaukee's north side. It happened when a 21-year-old man thought it would be funny to scare his mother when she got home from shopping Thursday night ...

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Wisconsin Toddler Struck, Dragged By Car

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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 11:21 a.m.

A 2-year-old girl crossing the street with her mother in Fond du Lac was struck and dragged by car ...

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Mom shoots son when holdup prank goes wrong

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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 8:50 a.m.

A young man's attempt to play a practical joke on his mother Thursday went awry when the woman ended up in police custody and the son ended up with a bullet in his groin, police said.The injured 21-year-old told police he thought it would be funny to frighten his mother when she returned from shopping, according to the Milwaukee Police Department. So the young man put on a ski mask about 9 p.m. and approached her at their house in the 3700 block of N. 13th Street, police said.The 37-year-old

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Panhandling is a complicated issue for this parent

Published Jan. 25, 2010 at 12:11 p.m.

My kids have an ongoing interest in panhandlers. We encounter them weekly, sometimes more, and it always inspires conversation that, quite frankly, I can't answer in a cut-and-dried fashion.

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Mother given 6-year term in starvation death of baby

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Published Jan. 21, 2010 at 11:16 p.m.

In the end, it was Lamour Caesar-Burnley's tiny body that spoke most forcefully of the neglect he endured in the final weeks of his life.Lamour, a preemie who spent the first three weeks of his life in a hospital, had been home less than a month when he died of starvation in July 2008.In that short time, his 4-pound 12.9-ounce body dropped three-quarters of a pound. Desperate to stave off starvation, his body devoured its fat, then its muscle, then began to steal protein from its own vital

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How Pizza Man made me a parent

Published Jan. 19, 2010 at 11:32 a.m.

From the title of this blog, you might think I became a parent after an evening of consuming way too much wine at Pizza Man. Sorry to report, that is not the case.