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- The French have “tentatively” confirmed that the ISIS executioner seen beheading 14 Syrians and American Peter Kassig is a French national named Maxime Hauchard. There’s a possibility, reports The Economist, that there is a another French national in the beheading video in addition to Hauchard.
- There seems to be an a slew of education policies brewing in the state’s legislative pipeline. Accountability, testing and the Common Core standards all appear to be up for debate once the session begins in January.
- A new Milwaukee-based online retail store called Woodbury Lane went live this morning. The shop specializes in women’s clothing, accessories, gifts and decor.
- Wired has an introduction to a guy whose job is almost certainly cooler than yours: the mastermind behind the sets of The Dark Night and Interstellar.
- In the last year, more than 70 percent of MPS students were labeled truants, the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Services reports. The truancy rate has been climbing upward, their data show, with 2012-2013’s rate reaching more than 80 percent.
