Milwaukee, WI
Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry in serious talks to sell stake in team
By Shams Charania, Eric Nehm and Sam Amick
American businessman Jimmy Haslam and Haslam Sports activities Group are in critical talks to purchase Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry’s stake within the Bucks, league sources inform The Athletic.
If Lasry agrees to finalize the deal, Haslam would be a part of the possession group with present co-owner Wes Edens. Lasry has spent latest weeks considering the choice to probably promote his Bucks stake to Haslam Sports activities Group, sources stated.
Edens and Lasry purchased the Bucks from Herb Kohl in 2014 for $550 million. As a part of the sale although, Kohl promised to donate $100 million to a brand new enviornment to assist make sure the staff remained in Milwaukee. That enviornment, Fiserv Discussion board, was constructed and opened in August of 2018 and hosted the Bucks’ 2021 NBA championship victory, the franchise’s first NBA title since 1971.
Sources who have been granted anonymity in order that they may communicate freely inform The Athletic this course of with Haslam started after Lasry thought-about promoting his stake within the Bucks to American businessman Mat Ishbia earlier than Ishbia purchased controlling curiosity of the Phoenix Suns. Haslam entered the dialog after Ishbia moved on to the Suns and joined Edens courtside for the Bucks’ 123-114 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Dec. 30, 2022.
Haslam, 68, is an American businessman, who’s the chairman of the board of the Pilot Flying J truck cease chain. His father, Jim, based the Pilot Oil Company in 1958 and Pilot Firm is now the fifth largest privately held firm in the USA, in response to a Forbes listing from 2022. Per Forbes, the corporate’s 2022 income was $41.9 billion and the corporate employs 30,000 individuals.
Haslam is already the proprietor of two skilled sports activities franchises, the Cleveland Browns within the NFL and the Columbus Crew within the MLS. Haslam has been concerned within the possession {of professional} sports activities franchises since 2008 when he purchased a minority curiosity within the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers.
Haslam Sports activities Group has continued to scan the enterprise area for extra possession alternatives just lately, with a particular concentrate on the NBA.
In 2012, Haslam bought his minority stake within the Steelers to buy the Cleveland Browns from Randy Lerner and take management of the franchise for $1 billion. Since taking up the franchise halfway via the 2012 season, the Browns have a 55-113-1 document and so they’ve made only one playoff look in 2020. Haslam took over the Columbus Crew firstly of 2019 and the staff gained the MLS Cup in 2020.
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Milwaukee, WI
Fox Point fire Sunday night, multiple crews respond
FOX POINT, Wis. – A fire broke out in a Fox Point neighborhood on Sunday night, Dec. 22.
The Brown Deer Fire Department and Milwaukee Fire Department confirmed multiple units responded to the fire in a neighborhood on Barnett Lane.
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It’s currently unclear what started the fire.
Milwaukee, WI
Wisconsin holiday gas prices falling as thousands hit the road
MILWAUKEE – Thousands across Wisconsin are expected to hit the road for the holiday. The travel comes at a good time – because GasBuddy experts predict nationwide gas prices will be at their lowest point on Christmas Day since 2020.
At Good Hope and Green Bay roads, Victor Tran is filling up – and it’s not a bad time to do so.
“The gas right now. Very, very good right now. They’re getting lower. Better than they were before,” Trans said.
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According to AAA, the average for a gallon of regular gas in Wisconsin is around $2.82 per gallon. The average in Milwaukee County on Sunday, Dec. 22 was around $2.79. That is lower than Ozaukee County with an average of around $2.93. All those prices are below the $3 per gallon national average.
Patrick De Haan is the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.
“It’s the seasonality that’s really been the primary reason for gas prices that have fallen compared to where they were this summer,” De Haan said. “In the last couple of days we have seen a big jump in some parts of Wisconsin ahead of the holiday. That has to do with oil prices jumping up.”
But De Haan believes prices will once again fall in Milwaukee. He suggests waiting until closer to Christmas to fill up.
GasBuddy suggests people always check fuel prices before filling up – especially when crossing the state line.
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“I do think a high number of Americans are likely going to be hitting the road in light of the relatively low gas prices,” De Haan said.
De Haan predicts prices will rise after the cold winter months.
“What goes down eventually will go up in the spring,” De Haan said.
Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee shooting near 14th and North; 25-year-old accused
MILWAUKEE – A 25-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of shooting another man near a gas station near 14th and North. The accused is Dreaten Burch – and he faces a single charge of first-degree reckless injury.
According to the criminal complaint, Milwaukee police responded on Sunday evening, Dec. 8 to a shooting near 14th and North Avenue. Officers spoke with relatives of the shooting victim who came home with a gunshot wound to his face. They believed he had been at a nearby gas station.
That same night, a detective went to Froedtert Hospital where the shooting victim was being treated for his wound. He indicated he “exchanged words with the driver of a white vehicle, then ran west on North Avenue and got shot in the face as he ran,” the complaint says. The victim said he did not see who shot him.
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Milwaukee police responded to the Citgo gas station near 14th and North and reviewed surveillance video showing the suspect and victim. The complaint says the “video shows that at about 5:31 p.m., a man walks into Citgo, then leaves and walks through the parking lot. At about 5:33 p.m., a white vehicle turns into the parking lot and appears to nearly strike the man in the parking lot, who has to avoid the vehicle. The vehicle parks, then a suspect exits the driver’s door, then heads in the same direction as the first man.”
Investigators found a casing and unspent cartridge northeast of the intersection of 14th and North. Police “later found additional surveillance video showing the man and suspect heading to this location, and showing the man returning to the white vehicle,” the complaint says.
Investigators reviewed photos of the suspect vehicle. They also queried the Flock Safety database and found a matching vehicle within three days of the incident. Officers had previously stopped the vehicle — and identified the driver as Dreaten Burch.
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Burch was arrested on Dec. 9. When police tried to question him about the shooting incident at the gas station, Burch “said he may have been at the gas station and may have been in the car, but he didn’t know about anything else,” the complaint says.
Burch made his initial appearance in Milwaukee County court on Saturday, Dec. 14. Cash bond was set at $10,000.
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