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Mar 10, 2016

Bradley’s romantic relationship became issue in 2005 case

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley had a romantic relationship with a former co-worker and went on to represent the man in a child custody case, prompting the man's ex-wife to try to remove her for alleged conflict of interest, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Mar 10, 2016

Court interpreter training coming to Milwaukee

The Director of State Courts Office will be offering court interpreter training in April in Milwaukee.

Mar 10, 2016

Money expected to pour in for state Supreme Court candidates

With less than a month to go before the election in a close race for Wisconsin's Supreme Court, the usual suspects among liberal and conservative interest groups have gotten off to a slow start toward spending the amounts of money that have made other recent contests remarkable.

Mar 10, 2016

Judge nixes plea agreement for 80-year-old marijuana dealer

A federal judge has rejected a plea agreement that called for a five- to seven-year prison sentence for an 80-year-old man who ran a multistate marijuana-dealing operation.

Mar 10, 2016

Pop Warner youth football settles lawsuit over man’s suicide

The Pop Warner organization has settled a lawsuit brought by a Wisconsin woman who alleged her 25-year-old son's suicide resulted from brain injuries he suffered while playing youth football, a Pop Warner spokesman said Wednesday.

Mar 10, 2016

Jury finds man guilty in fatal Appleton nightclub shooting

A jury has found a 30-year-old man guilty of first-degree intentional homicide in connection with a 2013 fatal shooting at an Appleton nightclub.

Mar 10, 2016

Former officer sues La Crosse police claiming discrimination

A former La Crosse police officer has filed a federal lawsuit against his former employer, claiming race discrimination and retaliation.

Mar 10, 2016

Man sentenced to jail for false report to law enforcement

A central Wisconsin man is going to jail for falsely reporting a capsized boat in the Wisconsin River.

Mar 9, 2016

Bradley, Kloppenburg go head-to-head in Milwaukee (UPDATE)

There were three things that Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates agreed on at Wednesday’s forum: recusals for justices, handling complaints against justices and the legality of arbitration clauses attached to employment agreements.

Mar 9, 2016

Committee recommends confirmation for new prisons secretary

Wisconsin's new prisons secretary moved within a step of being confirmed in his new position Wednesday after a legislative committee overwhelmingly recommended the state Senate sign off on his appointment.

Mar 9, 2016

Walker, Bradley go way back

The personal and political lives of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and an embattled state Supreme Court justice have been intertwined for decades, starting with their overlapping semesters at Marquette University, where the future justice penned anti-gay opinion pieces and threatened to resign from the student government over a multicultural course requirement.

Mar 9, 2016

Possible US Supreme Court pick would make history in many ways

If Ketanji Brown Jackson were nominated and confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, she would make history several times over. She'd be the court's first black female justice. Her confirmation would mean that for the first time four women would sit on the nine-member court. And it would mean two black justices would be sitting together for the first time.

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