REGIONAL BRIEFING
Four people injured in 3 shootings
Milwaukee police are investigating a series of unrelated shootings Wednesday night that left four people injured.
The first of the three shootings happened just before 6 p.m. in the 4700 block of W. Burleigh St., where a 17-year-old girl was shot while standing on the corner and was able to take herself to a hospital. She is expected to survive.
At 8:40 p.m., a 23-year-old man was in a vehicle when he was shot by someone in another vehicle in the 3700 block of N. 40th St. The victim was able to take himself to a hospital. He is expected to survive.
Two people were shot, a 20-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman, in the 4500 block of N. 51st Blvd. A 23-year-old suspect is being sought by police. The victims suffered serious injuries, police said in a news release that didn’t specify the time of the shooting.
Building damaged in dramatic fire
A fire was reported at a three-story apartment building in the 5100 block of Lovers Lane in Milwaukee just after 5:30 a.m., according to the Milwaukee Fire Department.
Firefighters responded and saw flames coming from the building’s third floor. Deputy Chief Terry Lintonen described the fire as “dramatic,” saying that flames could be seen from multiple windows.
The fire was under control as of 6:17 a.m. There have been no reports of injuries to either residents or firefighters. The cause of the fire is not yet known. The amount of damage sustained is
under investigation.
Teen jobs program deadline nears
The deadline is approaching for the 2016 Earn & Learn initiative, a jobs program aimed at helping young people in Milwaukee build skills and work experience.
The deadline for Earn & Learn’s Community Work Experience is April 28. Community Work Experience aims to help disenfranchised youths with a seven-week work experience at a local community organization.
“By introducing young people to the world of work, we are creating hope and opportunity in the lives of Milwaukee’s youth,” said Mayor Tom Barrett in a statement.
Earn & Learn has placed more than 25,000 students in summer jobs since it was created.
Nearly $25 million has been raised to employ Earn & Learn teens in Milwaukee, with supporters including ManpowerGroup, Bader Philanthropies, JPMorgan Chase and others.
UW-Madison school loses ranking
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s engineering school misreported data for the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate School” rankings for 2017, self-reported the discrepancies before the data was released to the public, and lost its tie for a No. 14 ranking.
The misreported data had resulted in the school’s numerical ranking for graduate programs being higher than it otherwise might have been among Best Engineering Schools, U.S. News & World Report stated Wednesday in an update about the rankings. Because of the errors, the engineering school’s master’s and doctoral programs are now unranked.