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The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to put in place a policy connecting the use of public benefits with whether immigrants could become permanent residents.

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A jury found a Menomonee Falls accountant guilty of working with a Milwaukee construction executive to illegally secure more than $260 million in construction contracts meant for minority-owned businesses.

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A former Milwaukee attorney could spend 20 years in prison for trying to take a client’s money for a bribe he lied about setting up. Federal prosecutors charged 50-year-old Mark Ruppelt with three counts of fraud on Friday. The complaint says ...

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Gov. Tony Evers signed an executive order Monday creating a nonpartisan commission to draw new legislative maps next year for the Legislature to consider, a step Republicans have rejected as a sham.

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“Steve was a gentleman at all times. A strong advocate, but kind words. He was wonderful.”

A former Sherman Phoenix employee is suing the Milwaukee market and its developers for not paying her for more than a year.

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A Kenosha attorney will soon find out if his law license will be suspended over disputed misconduct allegations. The Wisconsin Supreme Court will announce disciplinary actions for Terry Constant on Tuesday.

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A case in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court questions when police officers have reasonable belief to conduct searches without warrants after an arrest.

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The Republican chairman of the Assembly's health committee accused the Wisconsin attorney general on Thursday of trying to bully him into passing a bipartisan bill designed to prevent backlogs of untested kits for testing sexual-assault evidence.

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The city of Appleton has banned license medical and mental health professionals from practicing conversion therapy on minors.

Lindner & Marsack shareholder and board member Daniel Pedriana has been nominated as a Fellow of the College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers.

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A central Wisconsin man has been arrested in the death of his girlfriend's disabled adult daughter.

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' plan to create a nonpartisan redistricting commission to draw Wisconsin's electoral maps may put pressure on the Republicans who control the Legislature to consider an alternative plan, but it won't force them to do anything differently next year and GOP leaders made clear they won't change course.

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Gov. Tony Evers will lay out his policy agenda and goals for the year in his second State of the State speech to lawmakers on Wednesday, presenting a wish list sure to include some bipartisan measures that the Democratic governor hopes will have a chance of passing the Republican-controlled Legislature.

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Lukas Steiner will serve as the new Crawford County district attorney. The criminal defense attorney comes from Law Offices of McNamara, Reinicke, Vogelsberg and Helmke in southwest Wisconsin.

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Wisconsin public defenders are on pace to receive pay parity with state prosecutors. The state Senate on Tuesday passed an amended version of Senate Bill 468 to provide a pay-progression plan for assistant state public defenders.

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A bill signed into law on Tuesday makes various changes to municipal court procedures. Senate Bill 214 deals with the process used to form or dissolve joint municipal courts, procedural revisions, budgeting procedures and court fees.

Wisconsin Republicans were poised Tuesday to pass a bill that would impose new restrictions on the use of firefighting foam containing chemicals known as PFAS in the hopes of reducing soil and water contamination, despite Democrats' complaints that the proposal would do next to nothing.

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A conservative law firm on Tuesday asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to reverse a lower court's order putting on hold a ruling that would have forced the removal of up to 209,000 people from the state's voter rolls.

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The Wisconsin Department of Justice plans to review a series of sexual-assault investigations from the Wisconsin National Guard after a federal report found many were conducted improperly.

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Wisconsin voters could legally take selfies with their marked election ballots under a bill the state Senate approved Tuesday.

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One of eight bills that are part of a bipartisan package designed to fight homelessness in Wisconsin was up for approval Tuesday in the Wisconsin Senate.

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The Wisconsin Senate is scheduled to vote on a bill supported by disability-rights advocates and parents that would establish more procedures for when schools restrain a student or place them in seclusion.

Wisconsin insurance companies, healthcare providers and others announced an agreement Tuesday to do away for most patients with authorization requirements that can slow the prescription of drugs to treat people fighting substance abuse.

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A complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of Wisconsin accuses a 22-year-old neo-Nazi of vandalizing a Racine synagogue in September. On Friday, federal prosecutors charged Yousef Barasneh of Oak Creek for the crime.

The man who was fatally shot at a Madison apartment over the weekend was apparently targeted by the person who killed him, according to investigators.

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In a locked, guarded courtroom in a compound surrounded by razor wire, Immigration Judge Jerome Rothschild waits — and stalls.

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The rules of elections are always changing.

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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge sentenced an Oshkosh man to a month behind bars for buying a rifle for a boy who boasted online that the weapon was a “new school shooter gun.” ...

A Wisconsin teenager who was shot and wounded when he stabbed a school resource officer has been ordered to stand trial.