Brookfield woman says unleashed Rottweiler attacked her dog

11:30 a.m. | A woman told city of Brookfield police that her dog was attacked by a rottweiler during a walk through Mitchell Park on June 10.

According to the police report:

The woman was walking her 26-pound dog through the dog park at 9:34 a.m. June 10 when an 80-pound brown and black rottweiler bit her dog in the abdomen and shook it.

The victim told the owner that her dog should be on a leash. The owner replied, "You should not have walked by my dog."

The owner fled east on a path that leads to a Brookfield Elementary on Brookfield Road.

Cedarburg tops Lancers, 3-1, moves to state finals

June 14, 2013 9:04 p.m. | No. 1 ranked Cedarburg beat Brookfield Central, 3-1, scoring twice in the second half to put the game away.

Nikki Albrecht scored 17 minutes into the game off a pass from Kaitlin Kuznacic to take a 1-0 lead into intermission.

Then six minutes into the second half, Tylor Skorik scored in front of an empty net when Rachel Oleson came out to make a play, taking a pass from Josee Stiever.

Then at 52:30, Stiever drilled a beautiful unassisted go from about 15 yards out.

Emma Brauer scored Central's goal to prevent the shutout at the 69:15 mark, drilling a shot in from about 15 yards away in the middle in front of the goal.

Turelli's goal gives Lancers 1-0 win over Neenah in state quarter-finals

June 13, 2013 2:40 p.m. |  Brookfield Central's Bella Turelli shook off a shoulder injury and kicked in the winning goal in a 1-0 quarter-final win over Neenah Thursday afternoon, moving the Lancers on to the semi-finals at 6 p.m. Friday against the winner of the Cedarburg/Eau Claire Memorial match.

Cedarburg, the top team in the state, was winning 1-0 early in the game.

The game was scoreless until nine minutes where left to play. Central's Morgan Kenney hit a shot to the right of the goal which was deflected. Lulu Zuba then got the ball and flipped it to Turelli, who put in a shot from about eight feet in front of the goal.

"I just did a little turn move and put it in," Turelli said, not knowing where the ball came from. "I think the goalkeeper (Brooke Hiltunen) lost track of the ball after it was deflected."

The fact that Turelli played let alone scored the only goal was surprising.

Michigan pastor indicted for defrauding Brookfield bank

June 12, 2013 4:30 p.m. | A man who led a church in Grand Rapids, Mich., was indicted Tuesday in Milwaukee on counts that he defrauded a bank in Wisconsin on a $1.5 million loan.

Timothy Woodson, who served as pastor of Well Rehoboth Church in Grand Rapids from 2004 to at least 2009, is charged with mail fraud and using the U.S. Postal Service for the fraud.

Woodson received a $1.5 million loan from Ridgestone Bank in Brookfield in 2007 -- $800,000 to buy property for the church and nearly $250,000 to pay off an existing loan on the church property. The rest was used to pay for improvements and other costs, according to the indictment.

After spending the money, Woodson tried to get another loan from a different bank, Chemical Bank in Midland, Mich. Chemical Bank officials told Woodson they would not extend a loan unless the church property was free of any liens. At that time, Ridgestone had a lien on the church property and refused to release it, the indictment said.

In June 2008, Woodson created and filed a false discharge of the mortgage lien on the church property held by Ridgestone with the Kent County Register of Deeds in Michigan, the indictment says. Woodson created a mailbox he opened at a UPS store in Brookfield. The Register of Deeds recorded the false document and mailed it to the UPS store mailbox.

Graduation in the suburbs photo gallery now online

June 10, 2013 10:32 a.m. | It's not all pomp and circumstance, but that might be how it felt for suburban high school graduates this weekend.

Students from Nicolet, Germantown, New Berlin and more crossed across stages around the suburban Milwaukee area signifying their high school success. You can view photos of those proud graduates in our photo gallery.

MUHS dominates Spartans in state tennis semi-finals

June 08, 2013 3:41 p.m. | Brookfield East improved as the tennis season went on, especially on the doubles side. But the Spartans just couldn't get to the level of powerful Marquette.

As a result, the Hilltoppers swept doubles as expected and then split the four singles matches, with freshmen Dave Horneffer and Doug Francken dominating with wins at No. 3 and N. 4 singles.

Senior Mike Ebsen/sophomore David Sinense at No. 3 doubles beat East senior Michael Wolff/sophomore Tyler Kendler (6-0, 7-5) in a tougher match than expected.

But MUHS No. 1 doubles of seniors CJ Armbrust/Jed Skeran handled juniors Ben Stewart/Jimmy Engelhart (6-4, 6-3).

In the longest and last doubles match finished, a key match, which would have taken the pressure off the Spartans to have to sweep singles to win, No. 2 doubles of senior Greg Raster/junior Austin Budiono battled sophomores Henry Termuehlen/Patrick Krill and won (6-0, 7-5).

Central nips Tosa East kickers, 1-0, on Kenney's goal

June 06, 2013 11:29 p.m. | Wauwatosa East won’t miss Brookfield Central senior Morgan Kenny.

It was Kenny who provided the only goal in Central’s 1-0 sectional semifinal victory over the Red Raiders on Thursday night – and it was also Kenny who provided the assist in the Lancers 1-0 win over East on May 13.

Kenny connected at the 20:02 mark off an assist from sophomore Emma Brauer. It was all the Lancers (14-5-3) needed to advance to Saturday’s final with Brookfield East, whom they defeated 2-0 on Saturday at Central.

“It’s something we worked on in practice all the time,” Central head coach Jason Burdge said. “It was off one of our throw-ins. We scored a few goals on it this year. In practice, we made a couple of tweaks on it and that’s how Morgan got in there.”