This Just In ...
Kevin Fischer is a veteran broadcaster, the recipient of over 150 major journalism awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, the Wisconsin Associated Press, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association, and others. He has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for over three decades. A longtime aide to state Senate Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature, Kevin can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, "InterCHANGE," on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their lovely baby daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.
Photos of the Week (12/09/12)
1) The defense team for George Zimmerman on Monday posted a high-resolution color photo of the
2) People stroll with their shopping bags past a woman begging for money in downtown
3) Pearl Harbor survivor Ed Kmiec, 95, salutes upon departing the USS De Wert after a ceremony remembering the 71st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor aboard the USS De Wert at the Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 7. Photo: Bruce Lipsky / AP
4) Ruth Nicolaci, left, hugs her son and firefighter Lt. G. Bourne Knowles Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, for the first time since learning that the landscaping business that she started with Mr. Knowles’ father had been destroyed by fire in Fairhaven, Mass. Lt. Knowles, a volunteer firefighter, was among those who fought the four-alarm fire at the landscaping business that was started by his parents. (AP Photo/The Standard-Times, Peter Pereira)
5) Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception prayer in Piazza di Spagna in downtown
6) Forty three-year-old parapalegic Robert Woo walks with an exoskeleton device made by Ekso Bionics during a demonstration at the opening of the Rehabilitation Bionics Program at Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Center on December 6, 2012 in New York City. Woo is an architect who was paralyzed from the hips down during a construction accident and thought he would never walk again. The new strap-on exoskelton uses motors and sensors to physically move the legs. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
7) Dustin, left and Paul, both from Puyallup, Wash., and both of whom wouldn't give their last name, smoke marijuana beneath the Space Needle shortly after midnight on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, in Seattle, Wash. Dustin and Paul were two of about 100 pot smokers gathered in Seattle's City Center to celebrate the legalization of the possession of marijuana. Photo: Jim Seida / NBC News
8)
9) This image from Dec. 7, 1972, shows a view of Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew - Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt - as they traveled toward the moon. The view extends from the Mediterranean Sea area to
10) The night lights of the
11) A Brocken Railway train steams through snow covered pine trees as it approaches its destination on the Brocken Mountain in the Harz mountain range, Germany, on Dec. 8. Photo: Stefan Rampfel / EPA
12) The National Christmas Tree is illuminated during the 90th annual National Christmas Tree Lighting on the Ellipse of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Dec. 6, 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama and others attended the event which included performances by Jason Mraz, Ledisi,
13) Aviculturists at the Audubon Species Survival Center in New Orleans, wearing crane costumes, round up four endangered Mississippi sandhill cranes and transport them from their current habitat, to the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge in Gautier, Miss. Photo: Gerald Herbert / AP. Aviculturist Meg Zuercher takes an endangered Mississippi sandhill crane out of its crate with the help of Scott Hereford, a senior wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to introduce it to a temporary transitional habitat.. Photo: Gerald Herbert / AP
14) Orazio Martino poses with his 23-year-old Mississippi alligator, Black, at his house in
15) A young ray swims in an aquarium in
16) A large Pacific sideband snail slowly crosses a wet road on Dec. 2 in rural Douglas County, Oregon. Photo: Robin Loznak
17) A red panda peeks over a tree during the grand opening of the Giant Panda Forest at the Singapore Zoo on Nov. 28. Photo: Stephen Morrison / EPA
18) Knoxville Zoo visitor Madison Jones watches a 11-month-old black bear cub get accustomed its new home Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, in Knoxville, Tenn. The cub comes from the Wildlife Center of Virginia, a
19) Utah assistant coach Tommy Conner wipes his eyes during a moment of silence in honor of former head coach Rick Majerus, who died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, before an NCAA college basketball game between Utah and Boise State, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, in Provo, Utah. Numerous video tributes and a patch on
20) Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long, left, presents former Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema with a cap as Bielema is introduced as the school's new head coach Wednesday. AP photo.
21) James Starks' touchdown run in the third quarter put the Packers back in front, 20-14 last Sunday against
22) In this photo taken on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, Syady Sheikh Ismail, bottom, of Malaysia lines up his putt with his father/caddie during the Kids Golf World Championship at Glenmarie Golf and Country Club in Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Golf is no longer just an adult's game in
23) Workers clean a model replica of Cheops Pyramid of Giza, after snowfall in landscape park Miniwelt (Miniworld), in Lichtenstein, eastern
24) People walk past a gallery with an art piece titled, "Boy on Tightrope" by Yinka Shonibare as Art Basel opens at the
25) Members of the 'Werdenfelser Alphornblaeserinnen,' an all-female Bavarian Alphorn band, prepare their instruments for a concert near Muensing at Lake Starnberg in Germany on Nov. 30. Despite being a male-dominated tradition, the band regularly tours the surrounding southern Bavarian towns playing this traditional Alpine instrument. Photo: Michael Dalder / Reuters
26) Sydneysiders take part in the 'AIME Strut the Streets' in an attempt to break the Guinness record for the world's largest swimwear parade in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 7, 2012. The event was organized to raise funds and awareness for the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience. Photo: Lisa Maree Williams / Getty Images
AND FINALLY...
"The man in the picture has his back to the camera. He's desperately clawing at a subway platform, looking right at the train that's bearing down on him as he stands on the tracks. It's a terrifying, heart-wrenching image, and it's generating a lot of criticism for the newspaper that used it on its front page -- the salty, sensational New York Post."
Newspaper takes heat over haunting subway photo.
This site uses Facebook comments to make it easier for you to contribute. If you see a comment you would like to flag for spam or abuse, click the "x" in the upper right of it. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use.