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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 (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 Sean Ryan Milwaukee County officials are combing the O’Donnell Park parking structure and its construction records to find out why a 27,000-pound precast concrete panel broke off the building Thursday, killing a boy and injuring two others. A subcontractor ...

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Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker said at a news conference Friday that the garage underneath O’Donnell Park will remain closed until engineers determine it is safe to re-open. A 30-foot concrete slab fell one story at 4:01 p.m. Thursday, killing ...

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By Sean Ryan and Joe Yovino Part of the O’Donnell Park parking garage near the Lake Michigan lakefront in Milwaukee collapsed just after 4 p.m. Thursday. A 30-foot concrete slab broke off the structure, falling to the ground below. One person ...

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By Sean Ryan Park preservationists are threatening to sue Milwaukee County if it approves a parking lot expansion on lakefront property for the War Memorial Center. War Memorial Inc., a nonprofit organization that runs the center, is asking Milwaukee County ...

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By Sean Ryan Small pieces of concrete have fallen from the Hoan Bridge, a Wisconsin Department of Transportation official said, prompting a plan to hang a net beneath the Milwaukee structure. The WisDOT plan is feeding the concerns of a ...

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — The world’s largest music festival will continue to be held along Lake Michigan in Milwaukee until at least 2030. The lease that allows Henry Maier Festival Park to host Summerfest was set to end Dec. 31, 2020. ...

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