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Gov. Scott Walker has appointed a Husch Blackwell lawyer to fill Judge Rebecca Dallet’s spot on the Milwaukee County bench.

President Donald Trump has put more judges on the circuit courts this far into his first two years than other administrations had, thanks to Senate Republicans.

The man accused of gunning down a prominent lawyer in his suburban Chicago home is being held without bond on murder charges.

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Justice is supposed to be blind. But it can sometimes be oblivious.

Brown County has settled a dispute with a Chicago engineering company over a tarnished copper dome atop its historic courthouse.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is endorsing the Democrat Josh Kaul in Wisconsin's attorney-general race.

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President Donald Trump is asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to file a federal lawsuit against certain companies that supply and manufacture opioids.

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U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican, is praising President Donald Trump's pick for the U.S. Supreme Court, saying he expects a swift confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh.

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A man accused of sex trafficking in nine states is jailed in eastern Wisconsin.

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A Milwaukee County judge says a man who abandoned his child at age 5 is not entitled to collect any money from a settlement in his son's wrongful death 20 years later.

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A 66-year-old suburban Chicago man has been charged in the death of a prominent attorney who argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The conservative state appeals court Judge Brian Hagedorn is running for Wisconsin Supreme Court, setting up a contest with liberal-backed Appeals Court Judge Lisa Neubauer.

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A jury in Iron County has convicted two men in a Lac du Flambeau tribal member's death last year.

An appeals court has rejected attempts by a group of landowners to block a proposed frack-sand operation in western Wisconsin.

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A Balsam Lake attorney has won the Democratic nomination for a congressional seat in northern Wisconsin.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two lawyers who are candidates for congressional seats have advanced to the general election. A Balsam Lake attorney on Tuesday won the Democratic nomination for a congressional seat northern Wisconsin. Margaret Engebretson defeated Marshfield doctor Brian Ewert ...

NORTHFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Police say an attorney who argued 30 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court has been fatally shot during a domestic altercation inside his suburban Chicago home. The Cook County medical examiner’s office says 71-year-old Steve Shapiro ...

Turnout in Wisconsin's primary that saw hotly contested races among both Democrats and Republicans is the highest since 2002.

A judge has approved a plan by the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Foundation to auction off one of two biodigesters this month to pay off creditors.

A judge will decide whether a Minocqua man killed his wife 36 years ago.

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A St. Paul baking company that closed down after an immigration audit is among nearly three dozen Minnesota businesses that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has targeted since President Donald Trump took office.

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Nebraska carried out its first execution in more than two decades on Tuesday using a drug combination never tried before, including the first use of the powerful opioid fentanyl in a lethal injection.

A jury has found two people guilty of disorderly conduct and obstructing an officer following a protest at Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 construction site in Wisconsin last summer.

Gov. Scott Walker is seeking applications for the top prosecutor position in Columbia County.

Milwaukee police have shot and killed a 48-year-old man on the city's south side.

ATLANTA (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Atlanta say a former lawyer used the identities of three dozen former clients without their knowledge to apply for fraudulent litigation advances. Prosecutors said in a news release Monday that Chalmer “Chuck” Detling II, ...

Lauren Woeher wonders if her 16-month-old daughter has been harmed by tap water contaminated with toxic industrial compounds used in products like nonstick cookware, carpets and fast-food wrappers. Henry Betz, at 76, rattles around his house alone at night, thinking about the water his family unknowingly drank for years that was tainted by the same contaminants, and the pancreatic cancers that killed wife Betty Jean and two others in his household.

Authorities say a 60-year-old man died after he and others apparently swallowed packets of heroin during a federal drug bust on homes on Milwaukee's north side.

At an event in the Adirondacks last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo recounted a treasured memory of the time his family retrieved an eagle feather from Saranac Lake and kept it after one of the beautiful birds swooped near his canoe.

A jury's $289 million award to a former school groundskeeper who said Monsanto's Roundup left him dying of cancer will bolster thousands of pending cases and open the door for countless people who blame their suffering on the weed killer, the man's lawyers said.

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