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USS Beloit naval warship commissioned in Milwaukee

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November 23, 2024

USS Beloit naval warship commissioned in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE – A new naval warship was commissioned at Milwaukee’s Veterans Park on Saturday, Nov. 23.

The USS Beloit, a littoral combat ship (LCS), is roughly 380 feet long and will house 88 crew members. Ships of this kind are made up in Marinette, Wisconsin. They cost roughly $500 million to build.

As the ship’s sponsor, retired Army Maj. Gen. Marcia M. Anderson will lead the time-honored Navy tradition of giving the order during the ceremony to “Man our ship and bring her to life!” At that moment, the commissioning pennant is hoisted, and the Beloit becomes a proud ship of the fleet.

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This is the first naval ship to be named after the Wisconsin city, Beloit.

Once it is commissioned, the USS Beloit will call Jacksonville, Florida its home port.

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Doug Gottlieb goes on postgame tirade after Milwaukee beats Green Bay late

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February 16, 2026

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Doug Gottlieb goes on postgame tirade after Milwaukee beats Green Bay late

Because the whistles had been so plentiful, Stevie Elam’s defense in the waning moments had to be perfect.

It was ‒ depending on who you ask.

As a foul-ridden contest between rivals came to a close at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena on Feb. 15, UW-Green Bay guard Preston Ruedinger wisely attacked the rim with his team trailing by a point and the clock under 10 seconds. Expecting at the very least to draw some contact and a whistle, all he instead encountered was Elam stripping the ball away.

The freshman stripped Ruedinger, then sank two free throws to ice a 75-72 win for the Panthers to avoid what would have been the first sweep to their in-state foes since 2018-19.

“He had to get that ball pretty clean,” Milwaukee head coach Bart Lundy said. “They were driving with force. We had a couple plays before that where it looked like we stopped them and we did get whistled. But Stevie Elam’s strength as a true freshman, his hand strength is off the charts; it’s probably NFL-level.”

Lundy’s counterpart disagreed, to say the least.

“The last play of the game, just to get the ball they were grabbing us and holding us,” Phoenix head coach Doug Gottlieb said. “Again, I understand if you’re not calling that, that’s fine. You had the exact same play at both ends in the last play of the game.”

Gottlieb paused, ever so briefly, then aggressively slammed his fists into the table atop the dais.

“The exact same [expletive] play,” Gottlieb yelled. “The exact same play.”

Gottlieb was fed up with the officiating crew from the afternoon after receiving a technical foul and seeing his team shoot 18 free throws compared to Milwaukee’s 37. He specifically called out the technical he received in the second half with just under 7 minutes to play and his team up three, as well as a loose-ball foul on CJ O’Hara with 4:25 to go and his team up four.

“I need the new commissioner of the Horizon League to explain to me what a technical foul is when I don’t leave the box, I don’t curse, I’m not demonstrative,” Gottlieb said. “There was nothing, nothing that should have been called a technical foul. I know when I earn one. I did not earn one. The CJ play, we’re up [four] points, that dramatically changed the [trajectory] of the game.”

Postgame tirades aside, the Panthers had to overcome a huge night from Green Bay’s Marcus Hall to do so, as the junior from Schofield, Wisconsin, had 32 points and seven rebounds.

Central to Milwaukee’s efforts in doing so: free throws and Chandler Jackson, who scored 23 points.

Twenty-four of the Panthers’ free throws came in the second half, and they hit 22 of them – despite being one of the worst free-throw shooting teams in the country at 68.5% entering the day.

Milwaukee led for only 1 minute, 53 seconds in total.

After cutting the lead to one three times prior in the final minutes, the Panthers took the lead with 69 seconds left when Esyah Pippa-White was fouled going for a defensive rebound and hit a pair of free throws.

On the other end, Hall corralled his own miss and laid it back up with 45 seconds left to put the Phoenix up 72-71.

But Amar Augillard wisely drove to the basket on the other end, where he drew a foul much to Gottlieb’s chagrin and hit Milwaukee’s 19th and 20th free throws of the half.

“Our end, [if] you don’t want to call a foul, he drove into traffic, whatever,” the Phoenix second-year coach and former radio host said. “It’s the exact same play as the other end. Could not be more similar. And yet every time they drove in there it was a foul, and every time we did it was a miss.”

Milwaukee shot 19 more free throws than Green Bay despite drawing only five more fouls.

Jackson went 8 for 8 from the stripe as he finished two points shy of his career-high of 25 points, which he set in Milwaukee’s most recent game, Feb. 10 at IU Indy.

Initially thought of as a likely redshirt candidate, Jackson has become arguably the heavily injured Panthers’ most-consistent scorer of late. He’s averaging 14.1 points over his past eight games.

“To see Chandler from June to where he is now, he’s just a different guy, different player,” Lundy said. “When we inserted Chandler, we really inserted him for his communication. He helps everyone get better defensively. That’s what got him the opportunity and everything has grown from that. It wasn’t like he was in practice scoring at will on everyone. He talked. He communicated. He cared.”

Elam was the only other Milwaukee player to reach double-digit scoring, finishing with 11 points.

With the win, the Panthers moved a half-game clear of Youngstown State and Cleveland State for eighth place in the Horizon League, which matters because the 10th and 11th place teams face off in a play-in for the conference tournament.

Green Bay left the building, meanwhile, in a tie for third – and forcefully demanding answers from the conference.

“All we ask is that there’s a fair game. That’s what we ask,” Gottlieb said. “CJ O’Hara goes and gets an offensive rebound, their player dives at his legs and CJ gets called for a foul. I need [Jill Bodensteiner] at the league, our new commissioner, to explain to me the disparity in the officiating. That’s what I need explained to me.

“I have no problem with their team, their staff. They played hard. They did what they do. They played tough and they played aggressive. I need somebody to explain to me, just those two. There are others I have massive issues with, including every time we touched them there was a foul in the second half.”

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Milwaukee shootings Sunday, 2 people injured

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February 15, 2026

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Milwaukee shootings Sunday, 2 people injured

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MILWAUKEE – Two people were injured in two separate shootings in Milwaukee early Sunday morning, Feb. 15.

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What we know:

According to the Milwaukee Police Department, at about 1:40 a.m., a 34-year-old was shot and went to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

Police do not know the exact location of the shooting right now.

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What we know:

At about 3:10 a.m., a 32-year-old was shot and taken to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

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What you can do:

Milwaukee police are looking for whoever is responsible for these shootings.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact Milwaukee police at 414-935-7360 or to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 414-224-Tips or use the P3 Tips app.

The Source: The Milwaukee Police Department sent FOX6 the information.

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LSU holds off Milwaukee to stay unbeaten – American Press

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February 15, 2026

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LSU holds off Milwaukee to stay unbeaten

Published 10:34 pm Saturday, February 14, 2026

By Scooter Hobbs

American Press

LSU looked to have broken open a close game with three runs in the eighth inning against Milwaukee Saturday.

But the Tigers still had to squirming to do before holding on for a 5-3 victory over the Panthers in the second game of the season opening series for the defending national champions.

Steven Milam doubled home Jake Brown and Derek Curiel and Cade Arrambide added an RBI double for a 5-1 LSU lead in the eigth inning.

“Steven was just being Steven,” LSU coach Jay Johnson said. “Mr. Clutch. Time and time again, we never have a doubt he’s going to do what he needs to do in these moments. And he delivered big time.”

But Milwaukee eventually outhit the Tigers 9-8 and made it interesting in the ninth with a pair of runs on four hits in the final inning and had the tying run on before Grant Fontenot got the final out.

The story, however, was starting pitcher Cooper Moore (1-0), a transfer from Kansas who had a career-high 11 strike outs in his LSU debut.

He and five other LSU pitchers combined for 17 strike outs for the second time in as many games.

“He has a lot of ways to get you out,” Walker said of Moore, who allowed four hits in six innings, including a solo home run in the fourth for the only run he allowed.

“He was our best-performing pitcher in the fall, so it was not a surprise to us that he had this type of outing today. Cooper has great self-belief, and I think those guys are special. He pitches like he needs to win, and we certainly needed that today.”

LSU’s other two runs came in the third inning on a sacrifice flu by Curiel, followed by an RBI single by Brown.

The two teams will finish the weekend series Sunday at 1 p.m., with sophomore William Schmidt pitching for LSU.

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