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Two Wisconsin wedding barns owners planned to file a lawsuit on Tuesday against Gov. Tony Evers' administration, seeking to ensure that private parties held at such venues don't need to obtain liquor licenses.

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Wisconsin's juvenile prisons continue to use pepper spray on young inmates and keep them in solitary confinement for longer than seven days at a time in defiance of a federal court order, according to a report released Monday.

A Wisconsin man accused of abducting 13-year-old Jayme Closs and holding her captive for three months made up his mind to take her when he spotted the teenager getting on a school bus near her home, authorities said Monday.

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A Douglas County attorney faces a license suspension over allegations that he broke nine attorney-ethics rules.

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Department of Corrections staff in Wisconsin racked up $50 million worth of overtime in 2018.

A judge has ordered a Wisconsin baby sitter not to have contact with the family of a 2-month-old boy she is accused of killing and then pretending he was alive when she gave the baby back to his mother.

The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's recovery from cancer surgery is "on track" and no further treatment is required. But the 85-year-old justice will miss court arguments next week.

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A 21-year-old man is being held in jail in connection with the deaths of a Wisconsin couple he is believed to have killed because he wanted to kidnap their teenage daughter, investigators said Friday, a day after the girl approached a stranger along a rural road saying she'd been abducted in October and held against her will.

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Two judges vying for a spot on the state Supreme Court raised roughly the same amount of money during the second half of 2018.

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A coalition of liberal-leaning groups planned to file a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to void laws passed by Wisconsin Republicans who were trying to reduce the powers of the newly elected Democratic governor and attorney general.

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U.S. Air Force investigators have confirmed they're looking into allegations of sexual assault and harassment within a Wisconsin Air National Guard security unit, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin's office said on Wednesday.

Young people from around the world who provided low-cost child care for American families will share in a proposed $65.5 million settlement of a lawsuit brought by a dozen former au pairs against the companies that bring the workers to the United States.

Gov. Tony Evers appeared poised Wednesday to defy, or find a way around, a law enacted during the Republican lame-duck legislative session that prevented him from withdrawing Wisconsin from a multi-state lawsuit seeking repeal of the federal health care law.

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A disabled Wisconsin Democrat says an all-night lame-duck legislative session last month violated the open meetings law because he had to leave after spending too much time in his wheelchair.

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A Dane County attorney who once worked for Gov. Jim Doyle's administration is faced with a 90-day suspension of his law license.

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Gov. Tony Evers is joining his fellow Democrat, Attorney General Josh Kau,l in supporting a law allowing judges to take firearms away from people determined to be a threat to themselves or others.

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Gov. Tony Evers says he will be sending a letter to Attorney General Josh Kaul this week calling for Wisconsin to "change our stance" in a multi-state lawsuit seeking the repeal of the federal health care law.

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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed a pair of executive orders Tuesday designed to fulfill his campaign pledge to increase access to affordable health care and insurance.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to get involved in a legal dispute in which 15 states, including Wisconsin, are seeking to strike down laws in California and Massachusetts that require larger living areas for some farm animals.

Police are recommending charges of hit-and-run causing death against a 71-year-old man accused of striking a bicyclist and driving away in Racine County.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin has asked Air Force investigators to look into allegations of sexual assault and harassment within a Wisconsin Air National Guard unit that were brushed aside by senior officers, according to a member of the unit.

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Last week, Attorney General Brad Schimel released a legal opinion involving a county’s authority to zone shorelands within a town.

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Gov. Tony Evers has signed an executive order requiring state agencies to develop and implement policies preventing discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.

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A Wisconsin man who wounded four co-workers when he opened fire at a software company last year said in a note that he wanted "to right a grave wrong," according to documents released Monday.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review the nearly 112-year prison sentence of a man who fatally shot his parents before killing two students and wounding two dozen others at an Oregon high school more than 20 years ago.

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A 26-year-old man has been charged with strangling his parents' neighbor and hiding her body in the basement of her Pewaukee condo.

Moments after being sworn in as governor, Tony Evers called on Monday for a rejection of "the tired politics of the past," cautioning in his inaugural address that "we've become content with division."

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One of two Wisconsin girls who repeatedly stabbed a classmate shouldn't have been tried in adult court because she believed a fictional horror character named Slender Man would attack her family if she didn't kill the girl, according to an appeal filed by her attorney.

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A Michigan man charged with killing six strangers between picking up rides for Uber pleaded guilty to murder on Monday, just before attorneys were set to interview jurors for his trial.

Wisconsin Attorney General-elect Josh Kaul recently announced various appointments to the state Department of Justice.

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