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May 20 recap: Kenosha news you may have missed today. * 4 hrs ago (8) updates to this series since 4 hrs ago The 40-year-old faces three counts of neglecting a child where the consequence is death. KENOSHA - The Pritzker Military Museum and Library will host a Memorial Day program Saturday honoring the bravery and sacrifice of America's... The City of Kenosha has announced the emergency closure of 24th Street between 14th Avenue and Sheridan Road due to emergency infrastructure repairs. International logistics company Flexport says it will move into the former Kroger fulfillment center in Pleasant Prairie, Wis., in August. It's set to staff 300 full-time employes and will operate 24/7. For the 2026-2027 school year, KUSD would have received a projected $4.3 million through the deal's increase in special education reimbursement to K-12 schools. Without that funding, the district could see its structural deficit grow to at least $10.5 million next school year, KUSD Chief Financial Officer Tarik Hamdan said at the district's budget committee meeting Thursday. Nigh, a teen services librarian at Kenosha Public Library, was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker, KPL announced May 6. Library Journal's annual list recognizes librarians and library staff members across the nation who are "shaping the future of libraries." The Wisconsin men's basketball coach backed the recent move to expand the NCAA Tournament by eight teams. But he believes there are other opportunities to add "inventory." Kenosha Christian Life's football co-op with Burlington Catholic Central is a Hail Mary to maintain sustainable numbers moving forward.

New Flexport Inc. fulfillment center will bring 300 jobs to Pleasant Prairie. Company expects to begin operations in August May 19, 2026 1:20 pm Subscribe to BizTimes Daily - Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. A global logistics and supply chain management company is planning to occupy a 336,840-square-foot building at 9091 88th Ave. in Pleasant Prairie, bringing 300 full-time jobs to the area, according to village documents. San Fransisco-based Flexport Inc. will take over a site previously occupied by Cincinnati-based The Kroger Co., which closed its facility in November 2025. To continue reading this article... Logged in and still seeing this? Click here

The Iran war is throwing global shipping into chaos. After years of chaos in the global supply chain, Ryan Petersen, CEO of the logistics company Flexport, felt 2026 might offer some modicum of order. The pandemic was firmly in the rearview mirror. Red Sea shipping channels - which had been closed due to the Gaza crisis - were finally opening. The Supreme Court struck down many of Donald Trump's tariffs, and some Flexport customers were hoping for refunds. Petersen could finally concentrate on what he had identified as the company's major push of the year - embracing the latest AI technologies to make Flexport run more efficiently. Then the United States and Israel went to war with Iran. Chaos is back, and it's going to cost Social Crave all. I spoke with Petersen this week to get a sense of how bad things are in the global supply chain - and what this means for Flexport's business. While the Iran war will wreak havoc on Flexport's customers, it's also an opportunity for the company to prove its worth. After all, its business is built on routing and tracking goods with cloud technology, improvising when necessary to get stuff to its destination. Those are necessary skills when the Strait of Hormuz is perilous - several ships were attacked there this week - and major Middle East ports are under fire. Port countries like Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates are central hubs for goods in transit. One large shipping company told Petersen that it won't load containers on ships routed through some of the major ports of the Middle East. If a voyage is underway, the container must be dropped off at the next port of call. "Now you as an importer or a company that's shipping cargo suddenly have a container in France or Tangier, and it's on you to figure out what to do about this," says Petersen. Doing nothing means that the cargo racks up higher and higher storage fees. All those costs ultimately get passed on to consumers. Petersen tells me that only recently did major shipping companies resume moving cargo through the Red Sea, which had been deemed a hazard due to Houthi attacks. Now that's come to a standstill because of the war. The alternative route has been a long detour around Africa. "It drives up the price quite a bit, because a voyage costs more, but more importantly, it reduces supply: Ships do fewer voyages per year," says Petersen. "There was a lot of hope that returning through the Red Sea would increase capacity in the market and reduce prices, but now that's off the table." Petersen visualizes the situation for me by firing up a product called Atlas, which tracks the movement of container vessels in real time. Coincidentally, Flexport launched Atlas two days before the war began. Petersen cautioned me that not all the positions are accurate, because many companies have turned off their vessels' transponders - or even used high-tech methods to spoof their locations to avoid attacks. Still, it's obvious that traffic in the Middle East is moribund. Petersen waves his cursor over a cluster of ships congregating around the UAE port Jebel Ali, which is near the Strait of Hormuz. It looks like the traffic jam at the beginning of La La Land. "These ships have been stagnant in this area," he says. "You wouldn't normally see so many clustered here." That's not the worst of it, he adds. Flexport isn't heavily involved in the oil trade, but Petersen thinks that energy shortages will have a bigger negative impact than whatever is in those containers stuck in Tangier. "The US is self-sufficient, but globally there's not enough oil to go around - you're gonna have shortages, and then you will see a crazy parabolic rise in the price."