By Bill Clements Special to The Daily Reporter Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker and some county board members are trading barbs over Walker‘s decision to shift money during the past seven years from the county’s capital budget into the general ...

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By Bill Clements Special to the Daily Reporter Three Milwaukee County supervisors on Wednesday plan to call for an independent investigation into possible criminal charges involving the failure of the O’Donnell Park parking structure that resulted in the death of ...

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Dave Umhoefer and Steve Schultze Milwaukee Journal Sentinel MILWAUKEE (AP) — J.H. Findorff & Son Inc. was the consulting firm responsible for ensuring the O’Donnell Park structure followed engineering plans and for inspecting work for quality, including changes made in ...

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By Joe Yovino An engineering firm hired by Milwaukee County has checked nearly 40 structures in the wake of the June 24 partial collapse of the O’Donnell Park parking structure in Milwaukee. And there’s many more to come. Graef-USA Inc., ...

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — The 13-ton concrete slab that fell from a Milwaukee parking structure and killed a teenager apparently wasn’t installed as designed. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports only two steel connections held the heavy slab in place, not four ...

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MILWAUKEE – The partial collapse of the O’Donnell Park parking garage that killed a 15-year-old boy last week has prompted countywide inspections. Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker and County Board Chairman Lee Holloway on Wednesday announced Milwaukee County’s plan to ...

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By Paul Snyder A safety audit of Milwaukee County buildings in the wake of a deadly collapse at the O’Donnell Park parking garage could take too long, said County Executive Scott Walker. “I’m not against an audit,” Walker said Tuesday. ...

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A downtown Milwaukee parking garage remains closed while an investigation continues into how a 30-foot concrete slab fell off the facade and killed a teenager. Fencing surrounds the entire O’Donnell parking structure to contain the scene and ...

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By Joe Yovino

Web editor

Nowhere in the O'Donnell Park garage maintenance records could give any indication that a 27,000-pound chunk of the facade would fall to the ground and kill 15-year-old Jared Kellner of Greenfield, who was simply enjoying an outing to Summerfest with friends.

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