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A man charged with tampering with a vehicle used by two Wisconsin brothers who are missing and presumed dead in Missouri has waived his right to a hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence for a trial.

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The Winnebago County District Attorney's office says an officer's use of deadly force in Menasha was justified.

Gov. Tony Evers has created a task force to study issues facing the growing number of retired people in Wisconsin, particularly the amount of money they have saved.

The opioid epidemic has hit virtually every pocket of the U.S., from rural towns in deeply conservative states to big cities in liberal-leaning ones. But a curious divide has opened up.

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A Wisconsin jury on Friday acquitted a retired Catholic priest on charges alleging that he had sexually assaulted an altar boy over several years, starting in 2006.

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Sniff and search is no longer the default for police in some of the 33 states that have legalized marijuana.

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A Wisconsin school district says it is disciplining students from a high school football team for hazing younger players.

Sheriff's officials in northwestern Wisconsin say the stabbing death of a woman and a fatal traffic crash are related.

Wisconsin legislators are making another attempt at regulating public access to body-camera footage.

The sons of two former Republican rivals are considering running for the same Wisconsin congressional seat.

A Tomah man has pleaded guilty to neglecting his infant son which caused the baby's death.

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A Wisconsin operation that manufactured thousands of vaping cartridges a day may have been packing them with far more THC oil than the packaging claimed, authorities said Wednesday.

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The owner of a dog that died after being left in a hot car outside Lambeau Field has been ordered to work as a volunteer at an animal shelter.

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said Wednesday he won't join a multistate settlement with the Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma and its owners.

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A Wisconsin appeals court has reduced compensation for a Minnesota man who got into a legal battle over bedbugs.

The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing nationwide enforcement of a new Trump administration rule that prevents most Central American immigrants from seeking asylum in the United States.

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Attorneys representing some 2,000 local governments say they have agreed to a tentative settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over the toll of the nation's opioid crisis.

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Jackson County sheriff's officials say they have arrested the father of an infant who died last week.

The latest Marquette Law School poll should serve as a warning to President Donald Trump and encourage more Republicans to support reasonable limits on guns.

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A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that Montana can't ban political robocalls in response to their content alone, marking the latest in a string of court decisions against U.S. states that are trying to restrict automated phone calls promoting political campaigns.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul says hundreds of millions of dollars could be at stake in lawsuit settlements that can't be approved without the state Legislature's assent.

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Authorities say a Wisconsin man is accused of manufacturing thousands of counterfeit vaping cartridges a day with THC oil for almost two years.

A Milwaukee mother is facing child neglect charges following the death of her 42-pound teenage son.

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' administration scrapped a public website created under his Republican predecessor to track compliance on public records requests, a move criticized in a report issued Monday by a conservative law firm.

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Parents from Cudahy have been sentenced for the extended abuse and neglect of their 15-year-old daughter at the hands of the couple's other children.

Two women who accused the Wisconsin receiver Quintez Cephus of sexual assault hired a prominent attorney to investigate university officials' decision to reinstate him following his acquittal.

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Kenosha police say they're investigating the death of a baby.

Likely Republican candidates began to jockey for position Thursday ahead of a stampede to run for an open Wisconsin congressional seat in a district that's a conservative hotbed and central to President Donald Trump's re-election hopes.

A driver's education teacher in Appleton has been convicted of child enticement.

Public health officials in Oregon said Wednesday that a person who recently died of a severe respiratory illness had used an electronic cigarette containing marijuana oil from a legal dispensary, the second death linked to vaping nationwide and the first tied to a vaping product bought at a pot shop.

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