Attorneys for a British cybersecurity expert credited with stopping a worldwide computer virus last year told a federal judge Wednesday that the FBI agents who arrested him for allegedly creating malware used deception when interrogating him and those statements should be inadmissible.
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Read More »A high school music teacher in Green Bay is accused of improper conduct involving a student.
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Read More »Wisconsin prosecutors have decided not to charge anyone in connection with the death of a mental hospital patient, police said Wednesday.
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Read More »The family of a mentally ill man who died after Milwaukee-area police officers used a stun gun on him has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the village of West Milwaukee.
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Read More »A state appeals court says an insurance company doesn't have to cover a bulldog attack that left a woman hospitalized.
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Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction attorneys tried to persuade the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to let them represent Superintendent Tony Evers in a lawsuit challenging Evers' authority rather than the state Department of Justice, arguing the agency is refusing to accept its responsibility to defend Evers' position.
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Read More »Twenty attorneys general are challenging Trump administration rule changes they say will reduce access to family planning services.
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Read More »A Milwaukee-area company will go to trial in a racial discrimination case after a federal judge declined to dismiss the lawsuit.
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Read More »Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction attorneys tried to persuade the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to let them represent Superintendent Tony Evers in a lawsuit challenging Evers' authority rather than the state Department of Justice, arguing the agency is refusing to accept its responsibility to defend Evers' position.
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Quarles & Brady recently announced that one of its attorneys will lead the board of a nonprofit company that operates New York state’s power grid.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s final public hearing of the term will look at something that has long been a matter of concern: the low rate of compensation private attorneys receive when they are appointed to defend indigent criminal defendants.
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Read More »The state Department of Justice has again concluded that secretly recorded videos of a Democratic activist reveal no evidence of election fraud.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down a federal law that bars gambling on football, basketball, baseball and other sports in most states, giving states the go-ahead to legalize betting on sports.
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Read More »WAUWATOSA, Wis. (AP) — A community organization is calling for a Wisconsin police officer to be fired and charged after a video surfaced showing a white officer punching a black teenager in the face outside a mall during an arrest. ...
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Read More »Police in Kenosha are searching for a prisoner who jumped over a fence and ran away.
Read More »Milwaukee County Supervisor John Weishan wants to ask voters if they want Wisconsin to legalize marijuana for people 21 and older.
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Read More »Attorney General Brad Schimel says Wisconsin farmers who grow industrial hemp can produce CBD oil from it.
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Read More »Jurors will begin hearing arguments on Friday against an Alabama physician accused of prescribing drugs that killed the guitarist for the rock band 3 Doors Down in 2016.
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The U.S. Senate has taken the rare step of confirming the nomination of a Wisconsin attorney to serve as a federal judge despite the objections of one of his home-state senators.
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Read More »Wisconsin Department of Justice attorneys are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a request to review the conviction of an inmate featured in the "Making a Murderer" documentary series.
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Read More »Authorities say a convicted child molester found dead at the Green Bay Correctional Institution in Allouez died of hanging.
Read More »An agriculture lobbyist says the state Department of Justice plans to walk back its stance that hemp farmers can't extract CBD oil from their plants.
Read More »Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel on Wednesday defended his appearance at a West Coast conference put on by the Alliance Defending Freedom, saying the conservative Christian law firm is trying to build "better love in the world."
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Read More »Senate Republicans are on the verge of filling the nation's longest appellate-court vacancy and, in the process, are softening a means the GOP has successfully employed to block several of President Barack Obama's judicial nominees.
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Milwaukee County Judge Rebecca Dallet’s winning an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on April 3 may have bucked some trends. But measured by the spending the race brought in from outside groups, it was no exception.
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Read More »A lobbyist at the University of Wisconsin got a severance payout of more than $48,000 to resign under unexplained circumstances.
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Read More »Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation officials plan to meet with the state Justice Department to discuss the agency's stance that hemp farmers can't produce CBD oil.
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The retired attorney Matt Flynn planned on Wednesday to be the first Democrat to submit the required signatures to get on the ballot for Wisconsin governor, despite facing questions about his past defense of the Milwaukee Archdiocese against allegations of sexual abuse by priests.
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A new report says Milwaukee County will need help from the state or a private business partner to build a proposed $367 million criminal courthouse.
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