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By TODD RICHMOND and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed a sweeping package of Republican-written legislation Friday that restricts early voting and weakens the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general, brushing aside complaints ...

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas jury has returned a $25 million verdict against former Dallas Cowboys player Josh Brent and the owner of a now-defunct nightclub in the death of Brent’s teammate, Jerry Brown Jr. Brown was killed six years ...

By JOHN C. MORITZ Corpus Christi Caller-Times AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Harry Whittington was a longtime Austin lawyer and a largely behind the scenes player in Texas Republican politics in February 2006 when he became a central actor in what ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Supreme Court suspended the law license of a retired Clackamas County Circuit judge, finding that after he left the bench and went into private practice, he represented a client without disclosing that he had ...

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — A former attorney convicted of killing his mother on the Big Island delivered a bizarre, rambling statement to the court during sentencing, telling the judge he had “attained immortality” and is the Antichrist. Sean Alan Rutledge, ...

A Wisconsin strip club has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle dancers' claims that they were paid essentially nothing for their performances.

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A former daycare worker at the Oshkosh YMCA is charged with sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl.

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A Green Bay Packers fan has lost a court battle to wear green and gold on the sidelines of Soldier Field, home of the rival Chicago Bears.

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The former head of construction at Bloomberg LP cooked up a lucrative side business, prosecutors say: an electrical-contracting company that he kept humming with $250 million worth of business from the global media and financial-information company.

A former priest accused of sexually abusing at least three boys in Wisconsin decades ago has been bound over for trial.

A hole in a valve was the source of an April explosion at a Husky Energy refinery in northwestern Wisconsin that injured 36 people and required the evacuation of a large part of the city of Superior, according to findings of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board presented Wednesday.

Police in Oshkosh are investigating what they say is the suspicious death of a 10-month-old child.

A lawyer who formerly worked in northern Indiana and already was ordered to repay more than $2.5 million to clients now is facing criminal charges.

Dozens of retired state and federal judges called Wednesday on U.S. immigration officials to stop making arrests at courthouses of people suspected of being in the country illegally, saying immigrants should be free to visit halls of justice without fearing they will be detained.

A Wisconsin man who spent more than two weeks on the run earlier this year after a domestic disturbance has been arrested after going on the lam again.

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Tuesday he's considering at least one partial veto of bills Republican lawmakers approved in a lame-duck session that would cut into the powers of the Democrat who defeated him.

A Janesville mattress store employee is accused of stealing more than $10,000 worth of mattresses and other furniture to support his heroin habit and his mother.

A Wind Lake gymnastics studio owner and coach accused of possessing child pornography and placing a recording device in the bathroom of his facility has accepted a plea deal and avoided trial scheduled for this week.

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A former personal injury lawyer in Chicago who created a cape-wearing character to drum up business has pleaded guilty to keeping secret from clients' settlements he'd reached and keeping the settlement money for himself.

An environmental-law center is suing the state Department of Natural Resources over the agency’s refusal to hand over records related to diverting Lake Michigan water for the plant Foxconn Technology Group is building in southeast Wisconsin.

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Gov. Scott Walker says the powers of his Democratic replacement will remain among the strongest of any governor in the country, even if he signs bills passed in a lame-duck session.

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Companies seeking tax credits from Wisconsin’s troubled job-creation agency would be subject to reduced scrutiny under a provision Republicans included in a package of lame-duck legislation designed to weaken newly elected Democrats.

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A correctional officer at the Milwaukee County Jail is accused of abusing an inmate.

A jury has acquitted a Fox Crossing municipal judge accused of stalking his court clerk.

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The Supreme Court on Monday avoided a possibly incendiary case by rejecting appeals from Kansas and Louisiana in their attempts to strip Medicaid money from Planned Parenthood.

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Gov.-elect Tony Evers has put together a council to advise him on criminal-justice policy.

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Several Wisconsin cities and one county are getting new diesel buses thanks to fines that Volkswagen paid for cheating on emissions tests, but environmentalists say officials missed an opportunity to spend money on "greener" electric vehicles.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System regents are signing off on millions of dollars of tuition increases for out-of-state and graduate students at UW-Madison over the next two academic years. The plan calls for raising non-resident undergraduate tuition ...

President Donald Trump told reporters Friday that he will nominate William Barr, attorney general under President George HW Bush, as his next attorney general.

Republicans pushing to hang on to power in Wisconsin and Michigan aren't stopping at curbing the authority of incoming Democratic governors. They're also trying to hamstring Democrats who are about to take over as attorneys general.