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Ouija Board Spells Trouble for Kindergarten Teacher

A teacher in Milwaukee is under fire after it was revealed that she used a Ouija Board with her class of kindergartners!

The odd incident came to light when a parent complained to administrators that her five-year-old son was having nightmares and refused to be left alone following last Friday’s classroom Ouija session.

“They were shutting off the lights and making it dark and talking to spirits. That’s not something that should be at school,” the fraught mom told TV station WISN.

The unnamed educator says that the session came about after the kids asked to hear a scary story and that, when the class used the Ouija Board together, the children wanted to know about movie characters rather than residents of the ‘other side.’

She insisted to WISN that “I did not say there were spirits,” expressed regret that the seemingly silly exercise caused such dismay for her student, and promised that there won’t be any more Ouija sessions moving forward.

That may not be enough, however, as the distraught tot’s mom is pressing for the city to fire the teacher for the Ouija Board blunder.

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As Milwaukee police chase cars more, crashes are up and arrest rates are down, study says

Milwaukee police are engaging in almost three times as many vehicle pursuits in recent years, and even though crashes have almost quadrupled and the apprehension rate is down, officials believe the chases are worth it.

According to a recent study, the increase is fueled mostly by a rise in reckless driving, which in 2017 drove Milwaukee’s police oversight board, the Fire and Police Commission, to force an expansion of a policy governing when chases are acceptable.

Vehicle pursuits are among the most dangerous activities law enforcement perform and the challenge of striking the right balance with them has vexed officials across the country. And nationally, there is some debate about how appropriate it is to chase reckless drivers, given the risk that it will only increase danger for everyone nearby.

“This is a risk that (Milwaukee) wants to assume and I think with it comes certain responsibilities and consequences,” said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, who has written extensively on vehicle pursuits.

But in a city that has been frustrated with reckless driving for about a decade, Police Chief Jeffrey Norman argued his officers have balanced the risks appropriately while the feedback from the community has been, “Don’t let up. Keep the pressure on.”

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Jimmy Hoffa may be buried at site of demolished MLB stadium: cold case group

A nonprofit group of cold case crime investigators believes it has located a site in Milwaukee where former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa is buried.

The Case Breakers said a “a dying police sergeant’s scribbled instructions on an ace of spades” playing card helped lead their yearslong investigation to the old site of Milwaukee County Stadium in Wisconsin, according to a Wednesday press release.

The alleged burial site is next to the current Milwaukee Brewers stadium, American Family Field, where they believe Hoffa’s body lies in a spot under where the demolished stadium’s third-base line previously stood.

Jim Zimmerman, a 13-year member of Case Breakers and a former police officer, is credited with locating the ace of spades playing card which they say was written by a dying police sergeant believed to be involved with Hoffa’s kidnapping.

“Independent sources in three states convinced the volunteer investigators that CSI forensics will reveal Hoffa’s remains at a little league field, in the shadow of Milwaukee’s MLB stadium,” the press release stated. Three credible witnesses are said to have claimed that six years before the demolition of Milwaukee County Stadium, Hoffa’s body was moved from another location and “secretly buried in 1995 under this old stadium’s 3rd base.”

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