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Matthew Leusink, the new Waushara County district attorney, has no doubt that he has a lot of work ahead of him.

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Shirley Abrahamson, the longest-serving Wisconsin Supreme Court justice in state history and the first woman to serve on the high court, has died. She was 87.

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A judge has given Milwaukee's ousted police chief his job back, just a day after the board that demoted him selected a new acting chief.

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Wisconsin and Michigan are planning to join a federal antitrust lawsuit against Google.

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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals this week affirmed the dismissal of a First Amendment lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's Act 10.

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An Oklahoma man accused of trying to bite sheriff's deputies and stab one with a pen during a courtroom scuffle in Wisconsin is facing and arraignment in January on felony charges.

The Supreme Court has dismissed as premature a challenge to President Donald Trump's plan to exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to allot states seats in the House of Representatives.

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A former high school guidance counselor accused of secretly taping students and staff while they used a faculty bathroom was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in federal prison.

A vaccine will, hypothetically at least, bring about a return of activities once considered normal — going to large holiday gatherings, having drinks at a crowded bar, working in bustling office spaces.

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The incoming Republican majority leader in the Wisconsin Senate wants to pass a bill early in 2021 to change state law to allow for the counting of absentee ballots before Election ...

A Wisconsin dentist is accused of damaging his patients' teeth so that he could bill insurance companies for crown procedures.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new mobile app will launch next week in Wisconsin that will let people know if they have been in close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, Gov. Tony Ever announced on Thursday. The ...

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Top Capitol Hill Republicans worked on Tuesday to keep the price tag for a long-delayed COVID-19 aid package in check, seeking to prevail in a battle over help for state and local governments, while capping the cost of bonus jobless benefits and direct payments sought by Democrats.

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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court justices on Thursday questioned the legality of an order issued by the state’s top health official limiting how many people can gather in bars and restaurants following the ...

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GARY, Ind. (AP) — Video of a murder suspect’s escape from a security company’s transport van contradicts the driver’s story that the man jumped through an open window while the vehicle was stopped at a McDonald’s in Indiana, authorities say. ...

A Dec. 8 ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin could change the Wisconsin Department of Corrections' approach to providing medical care to transgender inmates.

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A Wisconsin man accused in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer should be extradited to Michigan, but he will be given a chance to appeal first, a judge has ruled.

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A Waukesha dairy operation that abruptly closed down nearly eight years ago must pay at least $1.1 million in wages and benefits to former employees, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced Wednesday.

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A Beaver Dam man has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting his ex-wife in a plea deal with prosecutors.

A Christmas tree put up by two Republican lawmakers in the rotunda of Wisconsin's closed Capitol was removed Tuesday because they did not have a permit and they refused to move it to an area where it could be displayed.

In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has helped the pro bono Wills for Heroes program make more of a difference than ever.

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A federal court next week is expected to consider whether to invalidate a program that shields from deportation immigrants brought to the United States as children, potentially creating complications for the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden.

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The man charged in a fatal shooting in Milwaukee that prosecutors say involved an argument over basketball has resigned his position as a Hales Corners firefighter, the village said on Tuesday.

Freezing tuition at the University of Wisconsin without adding more state money to offset the loss has contributed to the system falling behind similar institutions and harming its ability to compete, according to a report by the Wisconsin Policy Forum released on Tuesday.

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A Wisconsin man who was obsessively concerned about the coronavirus pandemic has been ordered to spend the rest of his life in a mental-health institution for stabbing four of his family members, two of them fatally.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development was responsible for 11 of the 13 weeks it took, on average, to process unemployment claims filed since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to an audit released Monday. The nonpartisan ...

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The legal software company Expert Institute LLC has chosen Milwaukee as the site for its Midwest office.

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Health care workers in Wisconsin will start receiving the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday as hospitals begin receiving shipments of the vaccine.

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Presidential electors in key battleground states cast the votes Monday that will affirm Joe Biden as the nation's next president, a formality that took on added importance this year because of President Donald Trump's refusal to concede he lost his race for reelection.

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A narrowly divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump's lawsuit attempting to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state, ending Trump's legal challenges in state court about an hour before the Electoral College was to meet to cast the state's 10 votes for Biden.

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