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The leader of the Forest County Potawatomi Community urged Wisconsin policy makers on Tuesday to work together to fight the scourge of opioid abuse, which he said was hitting the state's tribal populations hard.

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A Milwaukee attorney will soon find out if the state will revoke his law license. The Wisconsin Supreme Court plans to rule in the Office of Lawyer Regulation's case against Michael Krill on Thursday.

The Wisconsin Assembly is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a proposal to call a convention of the states to consider making changes to the U.S. Constitution, including imposing term limits on federal offices.

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A group of parents filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging the Madison school district's transgender policy is unconstitutional because it prohibits teachers and staff employees from informing parents that their children want to switch sexes.

The former Milwaukee construction executive Brian Ganos has agreed to plead guilty to two of three charges filed against him in a child-pornography case.

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A Florida patent lawyer is faced with reciprocal discipline in Wisconsin for failing to speak and listen to the inventors he took on as clients.

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Wisconsin voters will choose between a Republican appointee, a Madison judge and a law professor as they winnow down the candidates for a state Supreme Court seat in a primary Tuesday.

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Republican lawmakers are beginning a last-minute push on Monday for a plan to reduce taxes by $250 million with a public hearing and vote in the Legislature’s powerful finance committee.

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Milwaukee police are investigating the apparent homicides of a mother and two daughters whose bodies were discovered Sunday in a garage.

A 52-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after striking at least 13 vehicles in the town of Lake Tomahawk, according to the Oneida County Sheriff's Office.

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A former University of Wisconsin football player who is the brother of a standout in the 2011 Super Bowl surrendered to Chicago police on Saturday in connection with the deaths of two people who were found with gunshot wounds on a road in Janesville, Wisconsin.

A jury found a former federal agent not guilty of sexually assaulting two women but guilty of assaulting a third.

An attorney at Habush Habush & Rottier has obtained a $38.1 million verdict against Hyundai Motor Co. in a Racine County personal injury case.

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A Milwaukee luxury car broker must pay $5.4 million in restitution for a tax fraud conspiracy involving stealing foreign clients' money.

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The Wisconsin Claims Board on Friday awarded $25,000 to a U.S. Navy veteran who spent 26 years behind bars for a homicide he didn't commit.

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Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature released a plan for a nearly $250 million income tax cut on Friday, a proposal they plan to vote on next week and quickly send to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.

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The city of Sheboygan properly annexed land for a Kohler Co. golf course in 2017, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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The Office of Lawyer Regulation is accusing a Fox Valley lawyer of keeping an entire payment from the State Public Defender's Office for himself, rather than splitting it with an investigator as he was supposed to.

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American Bar Association president Judy Perry Martinez called for preserving the integrity of the justice system one day after the Justice Department announced it would seek a lower sentence for Roger Stone, a former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump. Martinez’s ...

Husch Blackwell added two new attorneys to its banking and finance practice in Wisconsin. Jessica Zeratsky and Lauren Capitini recently joined the firm's Financial Services & Capital Markets group.

The Illinois personal-injury attorney Elizabeth Olszewski died in a car crash in Racine County on Feb. 9. The Union Grove native practiced at Salvi, Schostok & Prichard in Waukegan, Ill.

Authorities say the driver of a pickup truck that crashed head-on into a school bus in Dane County has been arrested for repeatedly driving drunk.

The widow of a slain Chicago Police Department commander filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a website used to sell a gun tied to her husband's death.

A Michigan woman who broke the hearts and emptied the wallets of couples anxious to adopt babies was sentenced to 21 months in prison Wednesday after acknowledging that she faked her own pregnancy and committed other acts of deception.

A judge on Wednesday declined to dismiss a complaint charging a Wisconsin pediatrician with physically injuring an infant he was adopting with his wife.

Prosecutors on Wednesday charged a Milwaukee man in a drive-by shooting that killed a pregnant mother of five who was on board a party bus.

Starting salaries for Wisconsin state troopers would increase by nearly $6,000 a year under their first new contract in five years, a deal that won approval Wednesday after a previous agreement calling for higher raises was rejected.

The Wisconsin Joint Committee on Finance has unanimously passed bills to fund a pay-progression plan for state public defenders and set up 12 new circuit courts around the state.

A state public defender from Kenosha County has been appointed a Kenosha County Circuit Court judge. Larisa Benitez-Morgan is succeeding Judge David Bastianelli, who's retiring in April.

Judge Mary Triggiano is the new chief judge of the First Judicial Administrative District in Milwaukee County. The Wisconsin Supreme Court announced Triggiano's appointment on Wednesday.

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