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A St. Louis jury has awarded nearly $4.7 billion in damages to 22 women and their families after they claimed asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talcum powder caused their ovarian cancer.

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By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press MILWAUKEE — The eight Democratic candidates for governor were united Thursday during their first broadcast debate against a pair of common enemies — the Foxconn Technology Group project in southeast Wisconsin and Republican Gov. Scott Walker. ...

Maryland's highest court has agreed to review a decision to reopen a high-profile case for a man whose murder conviction was chronicled in the hit podcast "Serial," according to an order issued Thursday.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has revoked the license of a Milwaukee solo practitioner who, among other things, abandoned his practice without notifying his clients.

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Absentee voting for Wisconsin's Aug. 14 primary has begun, but the process for casting a ballot early varies across the state.

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Authorities say a man charged in a shooting that left three men dead and a 4-year-old boy wounded at a central Illinois apartment complex has been arrested during a Wisconsin drug bust.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says she will not support President Donald Trump's pick for the Supreme Court, saying Brett Kavanaugh would "turn back the clock on a woman's constitutional right and freedom to make her own health care choices."

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A partner in a prominent Milwaukee-based law firm faces a 60-day suspension over allegations of misconduct stemming from two divorce cases.

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Charges have been filed against a man accused of providing the drugs eventually sold by a state legislator's daughter to a pregnant woman who died of an overdose in Brown County.

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Buelow Vetter Buikema Olson & Vliet recently announced that attorney Brian Waterman has rejoined the firm.

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Working with employee-benefits clients and institutional investors clients, Tiffany R. Reeves finds every day is different and she always has more to learn.

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Lisa Neubauer, the chief judge on the state appeals court, announced Thursday she is running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a bid to replace the retiring liberal Justice Shirley Abrahamson next year.

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Democratic Wisconsin attorney general candidate Josh Kaul is challenging Republican incumbent Brad Schimel to eight debates across the state.

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A man who spent more than 30 years in prison for rape in southeastern Oklahoma is traveling home to Wisconsin after the Innocence Project presented DNA evidence it contended excluded him from the crime.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel has outraised his Democratic challenger Josh Kaul over the first six months of the year.

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A Wisconsin woman is accused of locking her 3-year-old daughter in a car during a heat wave while she was fishing with a friend.

By TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. (AP) — A firefighter was killed and at least a dozen other people were injured when a natural gas explosion leveled at least two buildings in a Wisconsin community, authorities said Wednesday. A ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee officials have agreed to pay $3.4 million to settle a lawsuit alleging its police department had officers target black and Latino residents without probable cause tthrough a “stop-and-frisk” policy. The Milwaukee Common Council approved the settlement ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A federal grand jury in Milwaukee has indicted two Texas residents in connection with textbook thefts at colleges around the country. Federal prosecutors said in a news release the grand jury indicted Ryan Lewis and Genisis Abellar, ...

Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson said Monday he has no litmus test on abortion for President Donald Trump's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court and he hopes the Senate moves quickly to confirm the pick before the November election.

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Charges have been dropped against a southwestern Illinois judge who was accused of grabbing a client's genitals in 2016 when he was a lawyer in private practice.

A federal agent accused of sexually assaulting three women in Wisconsin must continue to wear a monitoring device.

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Lawyers for a school groundskeeper dying of cancer asked a San Francisco jury on Monday to find that agribusiness giant Monsanto's widely used weed killer Roundup likely caused his disease.

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The response to President Donald Trump's pick for the next U.S. Supreme Court justice is breaking along partisan lines in Wisconsin.

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President Donald Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh, a politically connected conservative judge, for the Supreme Court Monday, setting up a ferocious confirmation battle with Democrats as he seeks to shift the nation's highest court further to the right.

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A Wisconsin prosecutor has decided he won't file charges against three high school students who gave their classmates brownies laced with a sexual enhancement supplement.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel ripped the Democratic gubernatorial candidates' proposals to release inmates from Wisconsin prisons Monday, calling the plans irresponsible and dangerous.

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A Republican candidate running for treasure said on Monday that he was fired from his bank job because he wouldn't drop out of the race for that office.

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The Sheriff’s Office of Door County recently installed two automated breathalyzer kiosks at the Door County Justice Center in Sturgeon Bay and has begun using them to conduct daily alcohol screening of offenders participating in the Huber Work Release program.

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With more children ending up in foster care due to parents struggling with mental illness and addiction, among other issues, some have said the situation has risen to a state of crisis.