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As a wave of consumer activism swept the country in the 1970s, Wisconsinites formed the country's first statewide consumer advocacy group focused on utilities.

Tagged with: Citizens Utility Board Kurt Runzler

Gov. Tony Evers is seeking applicants for Outagamie County Circuit Court judge.

Tagged with: Nancy Krueger

A jury has convicted a Wisconsin father of second-degree reckless homicide in the shooting death of his son last year.

Tagged with: homicide

Two Wisconsin officers were justified when they shot and killed a man who got in a gunfight with police that left a city firefighter dead in the crossfire last month, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Tagged with: Melinda Tempelis

At least $9 billion has been bet — legally — on sports in the U.S. in the year since New Jersey's victory in a U.S. Supreme Court case cleared the way for other states to do it.

Tagged with: gambling U.S. Supreme Court

The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hold off issuing a decision about whether to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.

Tagged with: ACLU citizenship U.S. Supreme Court

Gov. Tony Evers has appointed Rachel A. Graham to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District IV. The appointment fills a vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Gary Sherman.

Tagged with: District 4 Court of Appeals Gary Sherman Rachel Graham

Gov. Tony Evers re-created Wisconsin's pardons board on Thursday, fulfilling a campaign promise to again consider granting pardons after his Republican predecessor, Scott Walker, halted the process eight years ago.

Tagged with: Jeffrey Kremers Mary Woehrer Ryan Nilsestuen

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reinstated almost all of the laws passed by Republicans during a December lame-duck legislative session that limited the powers of the state's incoming Democratic governor and attorney general.

Tagged with: James Peterson Josh Kaul lame-duck session Richard Niess Stephen Crocker Wisconsin Supreme Court

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reinstated almost all of Republican legislators' lame-duck laws limiting Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul's powers, but the legal fight isn't over.

Tagged with: Frank Remington Josh Kaul lame-duck session Lester Pines Wisconsin Supreme Court

A man accused of firing into a Milwaukee home and killing a 13-year-old girl in her living room abruptly pleaded guilty Tuesday as the second day of testimony at his trial began.

Tagged with: Hanna Kolberg homicide Mark Sanders

A group of state attorneys general led by New York and California filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to block T-Mobile's $26.5 billion bid for Sprint, citing consumer harm.

Tagged with: Antitrust

Authorities say a man beat to death an infant who was in the arms of a mother who was the intended target of the blows.

Tagged with: homicide

Vincent Bobot — a former police officer, assistant city attorney, municipal judge and most recently a private attorney — will announce his candidacy for Milwaukee City attorney on Wednesday.

Tagged with: Vincent Bobot

A judge has ruled in favor of Racine's plans to divert millions of gallons of water from Lake Michigan for Foxconn Technology Group.

Tagged with: Brian Hayes DNR Foxconn

A federal judge has sentenced a Wisconsin man for threatening to shoot a member of the Alabama National Guard.

Tagged with: James Peterson Reed Cornia

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to federal regulation of gun silencers Monday, just days after a gunman used one in a shooting rampage that killed 12 people in Virginia.

Tagged with: U.S. Supreme Court

Wausau police are recommending second-degree reckless homicide charges in a fatal shooting.

Tagged with: homicide shooting

Wisconsin is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the state's ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

Tagged with: voting

A Milwaukee man has been sentenced to 70 years in prison for fatally shooting two teens.

Tagged with: homicide

A Wisconsin city is considering an ordinance that would impose fines on the parents of young bullies after a viral social media post showed handwritten notes that students sent to a middle school girl urging her to kill herself.

Tagged with: bullying

A Republican state lawmaker says Gov. Tony Evers' order to fly over the Wisconsin state Capitol for the first time a rainbow flag representing gay pride is divisive.

A Wisconsin jury has returned a $15 million civil verdict for the family of a woman struck and killed while riding her bicycle to work.

The police say a mother and her adult son found dead in their Sauk City home died of natural causes.

The Legislature's budget-writing committee has voted to scale back the number of new crime-lab analysts Gov. Tony Evers wanted to give the state Department of Justice in the state budget.

Tagged with: Gov. Tony Evers

Binding arbitration remains on the rise.

Tagged with: personal injury

Here’s the latest on what’s pending before various committees in the Wisconsin legislature. Among the proposals of interest are ones calling for changes to the state’s service requirements for civil cases, the addition of judge positions to several counties and changes to the rules governing unpaid wage claims.

Tagged with: personal injury

An opioid manufacturer has agreed to pay $225 million to resolve federal investigations into allegations that it paid kickbacks and used other illegal marketing tactics to sell a powerful fentanyl spray, authorities said Wednesday.

Tagged with: opioids

Although tort filings in Wisconsin continue to become less and less common, 2018 saw a slight increase over the number filed in 2017.

Milwaukee police say they've made an arrest in the death of a 2-month-old baby.