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The number of prescription drug overdoses and deaths have doubled in the last 11 years.

As darkness fell Monday night, the search was continuing for a man who presumably drowned near the North Pier.

One motorcyclist was killed and another was injured in a pair of crashes that occurred within hours of each other on 52nd Street.

When Don and Dorothy Spease decide it’s a nice day to wash their cars, it becomes quite a chore.

Recent sunny weather and higher temperatures have helped ripen Kenosha County’s strawberry crop.

Jason Holmes has been attracted to engines since he was young. Now at age 33, he’s a veteran engine machinist at Don’s Auto Parts and Machine Shop, 5515 60th St.

Most Wisconsinites don’t scuba dive. They definitely don’t dive in their living rooms.

“It’s going to be a little bumpy because we’re disturbing our culture, what we’re used to. When I was young, we used to save the bacon grease in a can. The thing I say is, be easy with each other. Be gentle. Give yourself some room ... The gentler you are with yourself, the more likely you are to get the benefit.”

For the last five years, Maria Perez’s doctors have implored her repeatedly to lose weight in order to get control of her diabetes and to help deal with her rheumatoid arthritis.

“No matter what size she is,” Valeria Hyde says of her sister, Patrice Haywood, “she is always fashionable.”

“It’s going to be a little bumpy because we’re disturbing our culture, what we’re used to. When I was young, we used to save the bacon grease in a can. The thing I say is, be easy with each other. Be gentle. Give yourself some room ... The gentler you are with yourself, the more likely you are to get the benefit.”

PARIS — The rain benefited crops but caused some vehicles to become stuck at the Kenosha County Dairy Breakfast on Saturday.

When it comes to revitalizing an old downtown, perception is no small part of the problem.

SOMERS — Some 32 years after he first donned turnout gear as a volunteer, Steve Krause will hang up his uniform for the last time Dec. 31 when he retires as chief of the Somers Fire & Rescue Department.

Hope is defined as “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.”

Sister Lucille Puntillo is a fixture at Holy Rosary Parish in Kenosha, and is a long-time teacher at the church’s school, now known as All Saints School, North Campus, where she teaches middle school students.

Mike Kisner and Charity McCulloch have been home once in the last nine days. The rest of the time, they’ve been at the hospital in Racine, with their newborn quadruplets.

MILWAUKEE — The Tremper girls soccer team had been so airtight defensively this season.