Two deaths, one violent, and celebrations for a couple of legends, one who’s going away, while the other is coming back. All in today’s links.
- A lot of people may be too young to know very much about Patrick Lucey, the former Wisconsin governor and U.S. ambassador to Mexico who died Saturday at 96. The Capital Times provides a good history lesson.
- Police are still searching for the killer or killers of Herman Paige, owner of Big C’s Blues Bar early Sunday morning. He was shot after an altercation at his bar near 12th and Hadley. Fox 6 has more.
- It won’t quite replace Sherlock Holmes, but CBS 58 has started a new series profiling unsolved bank robberies in Milwaukee. This one’s worth looking at if only to see the suspect’s fuzzy hat and sunglasses.
- Longtime New York Yankees star Derek Jeter is retiring after this season, so teams are giving him retirement gifts when he swings through town. The Brewers came through with a $10,000 donation to Jeter’s Turn 2 Foundation, a bronze bat engraved with the dates he played in Milwaukee, and a round of golf at Whistling Straits. It was a lot better gift for Jeter than the Brewers fan who wanted to give him a hug. Read all about the Brewers’ series against the Yankees in today’s Frosty Mug.
- And finally, if you’ve been putting off that trip to Washington, D.C., until the Washington Monument reopens, you can start planning it now. People lined up Monday to get the first tours of the now-repaired obelisk since an August 2011 earthquake damaged it and forced its closure. The Washington Post has more.
