Ashley Luthern Ⓜ️
@aluthern
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Reporter for @journalsentinel. Proud @mkenewsguild 📧: [email protected]
Milwaukee, WI
Joined April 2009
A moving, inspiring story written by the great Piet Levy. A beautiful read to start your week.
How my teenage son, a nonspeaker with autism, became a radio host on SiriusXM The Beatles Channel
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Despite video and victim's testimony in rape case, a judge ended the trial before it got to the jury https://t.co/MDa0zernKS via @aluthern
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In a rare move, a Milwaukee judge dismissed a rape case before it got to the jury. Victim advocates fear a chilling effect.
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Meet the women who founded Milwaukee's annual 5K to support domestic violence survivors https://t.co/OIw4HdeBTO via @journalsentinel
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LaVerne Badger and Natalie Hayden have served as the driving force behind Milwaukee's annual #LETTHEMLIVE 5K run and walk for the past six years.
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MPS lost enough students to gunfire last year to fill a classroom. How can we stop the violence? https://t.co/BVlyTX9kWo via @journalsentinel @david_clarey @_CleoKrejci
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In just over a year, Milwaukee Public Schools lost 23 students to gunfire. Educators fear the violence has become normalized. But solutions exist.
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This story demonstrates how widespread and extensive the flooding damage is across the Milwaukee area. Give it a read! It's the product of 10+ reporters' work. 'It kept coming': Residents, across Milwaukee area recount devastating floods, begin cleanup
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Cleanup from widespread flash flooding continued as meteorologists calculated the two-day storm caused a 1,000-year flood.
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Jim Lovell and Meg Jones, now both among the stars. Here’s Meg’s 2020 profile of Lovell and the Apollo 13 mission, which as she wrote, was “a triumph of ingenuity, hard work, innovation & perseverance.” https://t.co/5M56zRIfvP
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A father is charged with executing his 4-year-old son. He had a history of domestic abuse allegations https://t.co/WW094QyFn3 via @aluthern
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A father charged with killing his son has past domestic abuse allegations. Records show their home was at high risk for lethal domestic violence.
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#MKEPD #RIPBrother As we continue to grieve the loss of Milwaukee Police Department - District Two Ofc. Corder, we wanted to share a video he made speaking about "why he liked being an MPD Officer. 💙
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New today: After long fight, MPS teacher's aide self-deports to El Salvador with US citizen daughters https://t.co/NgGRk0t62m
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Yessenia Ruano, who has become a local symbol of the Trump administration's wide deportation net, exhausted every option to try to stay in the U.S.
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COVID, conspiracy theories and a billboard campaign: Grace Schara's hospital death finally sees trial https://t.co/s6VLN66PPP via @jvanegeren
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Grace Schara's cause of death is listed as COVID-19. Her family claims she died after a doctor listed her as DNR without their consent.
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Victim services across Wisconsin are feeling the impacts of federal health cuts. @aluthern and I spoke to agencies in Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay and across the northwest. https://t.co/WqmBBmuTjw
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Providers say their heads are spinning and describe the situation as chaotic and sad, and the decisions by the Trump administration as harmful.
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Falsifying reports. Found 'not credible.' Why aren’t they on Milwaukee's list of cops with integrity issues? https://t.co/E3FPw3fpNF via @aluthern
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A West Allis officer whose testimony was deemed untruthful by a judge is not on the county's list of cops with credibility concerns. He's not the only one.
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Remember the Michigan plant at the heart of the national baby formula shortage in 2022? Workers there tell @propublica they're still seeing "persistent leaks" and "unaddressed contamination." In speaking out, one said, “I can’t have this on my conscience."
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“Persistent leaks” and “unaddressed contamination issues” are among the problems workers say they witnessed at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants. “I can’t have this on my conscience,”...
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Three years. Three cities. Seven different doctors. Some misdiagnosed me. Many said my pain was in my head. All of them told me my period pain was normal. Except it was never normal. I had endometriosis and it was ruining my body. Here is my story:
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I am one of roughly 182,000 Harris County women living with endometriosis. It takes most women four to 11 years to get a diagnosis.
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You can find the first installment of the Brady list project here: https://t.co/kPQ3FzIsoM
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To get a fair trial, you need to know if an officer has lied before. In Milwaukee County, that doesn’t always happen.
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This officer was put on the Brady list in 2021 after an internal investigation that resulted in a suspension. In my recent piece, he was highlighted as an example of the at least two dozen people on the Brady list who still work in law enforcement.
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The officer, Juwon J. Madlock, resigned this week. In 2021, he was put on the county's "Brady list" of officers with credibily concerns.
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A deputy falsifying jail logs. Officers stealing. An off-duty officer hitting a parked car after leaving a bar, then lying about it. Imagine one of them arrested you. Would you want to know about their past? In Wisconsin, you might not. via @aluthern
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New today: Trump policies jeopardize future of migrants who came here legally. They "went through the background checks, and they waited where they were. They didn't rush the border." "They followed all of the rules. But now the rules are changing." https://t.co/RL7PwV17Cx
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The dismantling of a Biden-era program for Latin Americans has left them uncertain and their U.S.-based sponsors frustrated.
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