Jessica Tighe
On Air Host at WTMJ-AM (Milwaukee, WI)
Wisconsin’s Midday News Host 🎙️ Emmy-Nominated Journalist 📺 Traveler ✈️ Pet Parent 🐾 Foodie 🍤 Indiana University Alumna & Brookfield East H.S. Graduate
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1 week ago |
wtmj.com | Jessica Tighe
MILWAUKEE — Sade Robinson’s mother, Sheena Scarbrough, prepared for this trial mentally and spiritually. “I’m ready to get this process started. I want the demon fully held accountable on all the charges of what he did to my baby,” Scarbrough told WTMJ host Jessica Tighe. Opening statements in the high-profile trial against 34-year-old Maxwell Anderson started May 28th. Anderson is accused of killing and dismembering Scarbrough’s 19-year-old daughter after a first date in April 2024.
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2 weeks ago |
wtmj.com | Jessica Tighe
WAUWATOSA, Wis. — World-renowned Danish recycling artist Thomas Dambo creates larger-than-life trolls from trash and hides them in woods around the world. Now he’s bringing his brilliance to Wauwatosa. Dambo’s first creation is on the island of Culebra in Puerto Rico. He built “Hector the Protector” in 2014. His latest creation is going up right now in Tosa’s new Firefly Grove Park. It’s Troll #158 for Dambo. This troll’s name is Mama Wosa!“I’m a rapper. I used to rap.
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2 months ago |
wtmj.com | Jessica Tighe
MAYVILLE, Wis. — Keith Argue calls it “The Bob’r.” The Mayville man created a custom-built Harley-Davidson in honor of the late Bob Uecker. “Everyone’s going to miss him this season. It won’t be the same without him after 54 years of broadcasting. So it was an honor to do this,” Argue told Wisconsin’s Midday News host Jessica Tighe. The Brewers fan took a 1996 Harley-Davidson Sportster, cut it in half, and welded a hardtail on it.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
wtmj.com | Jessica Tighe
MILWAUKEE — Elon Musk is the most talked about man in the country right now, the richest man in the world, and President Trump’s most powerful advisor. So what’s it like to work for Musk? A Milwaukee native knows firsthand. Randy Knaflic was the vice president of human resources at SpaceX in 2012. He left his job at Google to take the gig. “Many people thought I was crazy.
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Feb 20, 2025 |
wtmj.com | Jessica Tighe
MILWAUKEE — Former Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is back in Brew City after serving three years as U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. “You’ll note Luxembourg and the United States did not enter war against each other in the three years that I was there,” Barrett joked while joining Wisconsin’s Midday News. In his first radio interview since returning, Barrett said the most substantive issue he worked on during his time in Europe focused on increasing defense spending.
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