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A missing Wisconsin girl's parents were shot to death in their house while the girl was home, authorities said on Wednesday as they urged the public to keep phoning in tips about her whereabouts.

CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County’s board of commissioners have voted for a nearly $4 million settlement of a malpractice lawsuit filed after an alleged botched heart surgery at Chicago’s Stroger Hospital. Lawyers for Jaime Flores alleged Stroger physicians made a ...

Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel is readying a new ad defending his decision to give police commemorative coins and his efforts to test sexual assault kits.

An Amtrak engineer charged with manslaughter in a deadly high-speed derailment in Philadelphia won't go on trial until next year because of delays in getting evidence from federal investigators.

Ten current and former staffers are suing Democratic Illinois governor candidate J.B. Pritzker's campaign, saying they were harassed and discriminated against because of their race.

A Waunakee man accused of fatally shooting his neighbor has pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.

Jurors who found that agribusiness giant Monsanto's Roundup weed killer contributed to a school groundskeeper's cancer are urging a San Francisco judge not to throw out the bulk of their $289 million award in his favor, a newspaper reported Monday.

Laura Ditka, a lead prosecutor in the child abuse case involving officials at Penn State, has died.

The former president of the Washington State Bar Association has been charged with stealing from two Spokane-area law firms where she previously worked.

Milwaukee police are investigating the fatal shooting of two people on the city's north side.

A sheriff says a grandmother has been charged with first-degree murder after her 20-month-old granddaughter was found stabbed and burned inside an oven.

The trial date for a federal lawsuit challenging Republican-drawn legislative boundaries in Wisconsin has been set for April 2.

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A Wisconsin teenager who has been missing since her parents were found dead in their home isn't a runaway and investigators believe she's in danger, a sheriff said Tuesday.

A group that advocates for tort reform in Illinois says "excessive" civil litigation may cost the state billions.

A federal judge dismissed Stormy Daniels' defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump on Monday, saying the president made a "hyperbolic statement" against a political adversary when he tweeted about a composite sketch the porn actress' lawyer released.

Yaakov Weinroth, one of Israel's most prominent attorneys and the long-time lawyer of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, has died. He was 71.

Police say a girl resembling a missing, endangered Wisconsin teen has been spotted at a gas station in Florida.

Democratic attorney general candidate Josh Kaul went on the attack during his first debate with Republican incumbent Brad Schimel on Friday, hoping to make up ground after polls show him trailing the veteran prosecutor less than a month before Election Day.

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Wisconsin voters will decide this fall if lawmakers should close the state's so-called "dark store" loophole.

The Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Republican Leah Vukmir drew stark contrasts on health care, abortion, immigration and other issues during their second debate of their campaigns.

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The Democratic attorney general hopeful Josh Kaul is releasing his first television ad, a 30-second spot blasting the incumbent, Brad Schimel, for taking too long with unanalyzed rape-testing kits.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel and Democratic challenger Josh Kaul are getting ready for the first debate.

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Major League Baseball and the casino industry are entrenched in their views on a league proposal to get a cut from wagers placed on the sport following the repeal of a federal ban on sports betting earlier this year.

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Prosecutors charged a Michigan man Thursday with killing his wife 43 years ago in Wisconsin based largely on witnesses saying he seemed unhappy in their marriage, her comments to neighbors that she thought he was going to kill her and other discrepancies in his story.

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An arrest warrant has been issued for a man charged in connection with a house fire that killed a toddler in Menasha.

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City prosecutors abandoned part of their sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein on Thursday after evidence surfaced that a police detective dead set on putting the ...

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says he now remembers speaking with former senior White House adviser Steve Bannon in spring 2017 about adding a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. census.

An Illinois jury has awarded a Michigan family $50 million after finding the brain damage suffered by a newborn was preventable.

Wisconsin's attorney general candidates will debate three times before Election Day, not four as originally scheduled.

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A Michigan man has been charged with killing his wife more than four decades ago in Wisconsin, even though her body has never been found.