@aluthern

Reporter for @journalsentinel. Proud @mkenewsguild 📧: [email protected]

 Milwaukee, WI
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Today, we are joining colleagues across the @USATodayCo network, formerly Gannett, in a Lunch Out against A.I. slop. We are calling on @USATodayCo to stop forcing generative artificial intelligence on newsrooms and to invest in the people who power our journalism. 🧵⬇️
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In our story on the cops who stalk women with license-plate readers, we said Flock could make two simple changes to reduce abuse: Require case numbers for every search and proactively scan for suspicious behavior. Now, the company is adopting both wapo.st/3UgJLmZ

Flock unveils changes after Post report on police misuse of vast camera network

The license-plate-reader firm said it will require stricter oversight after a Washington Post investigation found dozens of officers had misused its cameras to spy on their exes and romantic intere...

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@MSpicuzzaMJSMay 20
She was attacked by a serial rapist. Then she faced an officer’s doubt jsonline.com/story/news/inve… via @aluthern

She was attacked by a serial rapist. Then she faced an officer’s doubt

When an officer intensely questioned a rape victim, he likely violated her rights as a crime victim, experts said. But he was not disciplined.

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Rachel Seis@rachelbernhard17 Nov 2025
A moving, inspiring story written by the great Piet Levy. A beautiful read to start your week.
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How my teenage son, a nonspeaker with autism, became a radio host on SiriusXM The Beatles Channel jsonline.com/story/entertain…

How my teenage son, a nonspeaker with autism, became a radio host on SiriusXM The Beatles Channel

Aiden Levy, 14, is a nonspeaker with autism and apraxia. He found a way to communicate, becoming the youngest host ever on SiriusXM's Beatles Channel.

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Molly Beck
@MollyBeck10 Nov 2025
Despite video and victim's testimony in rape case, a judge ended the trial before it got to the jury jsonline.com/story/news/inve… via ⁦@aluthern⁩

Despite video and victim's testimony in rape case, a judge ended the trial before it got to the jury

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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Gina Barton@writerbarton2 Oct 2025
A year after USA TODAY investigation, the rape kit backlog persists buff.ly/Yn1D3Hm
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tamia fowlkes@tamiafowlkes22 Sep 2025
Meet the women who founded Milwaukee's annual 5K to support domestic violence survivors jsonline.com/story/news/inve… via @journalsentinel

Meet the women who founded Milwaukee's annual 5K to support domestic violence survivors

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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tamia fowlkes@tamiafowlkes10 Sep 2025
MPS lost enough students to gunfire last year to fill a classroom. How can we stop the violence? jsonline.com/story/news/educ… via @journalsentinel @david_clarey @_CleoKrejci

MPS lost enough students to gunfire last year to fill a classroom. How can we stop the violence?

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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Sophie Carson@SCarson_News11 Aug 2025
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 jsonline.com/story/news/loca…

'It kept coming': Residents, across Milwaukee area recount devastating floods, begin cleanup

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.” jsonline.com/story/news/2020…
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Molly Beck
@MollyBeck23 Jul 2025
A father is charged with executing his 4-year-old son. He had a history of domestic abuse allegations jsonline.com/story/news/crim… via ⁦@aluthern⁩

A father is charged with executing his 4-year-old son. He had a history of domestic abuse allegat...

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 #AmberAlert amberalert.widoj.gov/
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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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Sophie Carson@SCarson_News17 Jun 2025
New today: After long fight, MPS teacher's aide self-deports to El Salvador with US citizen daughters jsonline.com/story/news/loca…

After long fight, MPS teacher's aide self-deports to El Salvador with US citizen daughters

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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Molly Beck
@MollyBeck3 Jun 2025
COVID, conspiracy theories and a billboard campaign: Grace Schara's hospital death finally sees trial jsonline.com/story/news/heal… via ⁦@jvanegeren⁩

COVID, conspiracy theories and a billboard campaign: Grace Schara's hospital death finally sees...

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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Natalie Eilbert@natalie_eilbert14 Apr 2025
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. jsonline.com/story/news/2025…

'People are going to die': Federal funds cut for domestic violence and sexual assault victims

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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Mary Spicuzza
@MSpicuzzaMJS7 Apr 2025
Falsifying reports. Found 'not credible.' Why aren’t they on Milwaukee's list of cops with integrity issues? jsonline.com/story/news/inve… via @aluthern

Falsifying reports. Found 'not credible.' Why aren’t they on Milwaukee's list of cops with integr...

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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Michael J. Mishak@mjmishak4 Apr 2025
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." propublica.org/article/baby-…

Unsanitary Practices Persist at Baby Formula Factory Whose Shutdown Led to Mass Shortages, Workers...

“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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McKenna Oxenden@mack_oxenden27 Mar 2025
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: houstonlanding.org/endometri…
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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. jsonline.com/story/news/loca…

Feds accuse Milwaukee police officer of offering guns, helping street gang find rivals

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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You can find the first installment of the Brady list project here: jsonline.com/story/news/inve…

Milwaukee County tracks officers with credibility problems. But the system is inconsistent and...

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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