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Republicans who control the Legislature's budget committee signed off Thursday on the state's first settlement under laws that granted them oversight of Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul's legal negotiations.

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The Wisconsin Public Defenders Office revealed at a hearing on Thursday that it's struggling to find candidates for public defender positions.

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A discrepancy in pay for prosecutors and public defenders is threatening to tip the scales of justice in Wisconsin.

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Wisconsin lawmakers are preparing a bill that would allow college athletes to hire agents and profit from their names starting in 2023.

The Richland Center police chief has been charged with sexually assaulting a bartender and stealing her tips.

Attorney General Josh Kaul waded into the thorny world of emergency mental-health detentions Thursday, convening a summit to devise ways to prevent police from spending hours transporting detainees to treatment centers.

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The man who kidnapped Jayme Closs and killed her parents got into a fight in a New Mexico prison with an inmate who asked about the case.

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With the rise of social media, dozens of states are grappling with how services like Facebook fit with the Code of Judicial Ethics.

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Brendan Dassey’s legal team is advocating for what they are calling Dassey’s best chance at a life outside prison.

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Authorities say longtime Disney enthusiast and Milwaukee Bucks center Robin Lopez unknowingly purchased rare items stolen from Disney World in Florida.

The partisan squabbling over a $110,000 grant for a suicide prevention hotline continues as the group waits to receive the funding a month after lawmakers approved releasing it.

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Milwaukee County's newest circuit court judge is Milton Childs, a managing attorney at the Wisconsin State Public Defender's Office.

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The possession of small amounts of marijuana would be decriminalized in Wisconsin under a bill that Democratic lawmakers introduced Wednesday in their latest push to loosen Wisconsin's marijuana laws in the face of Republican opposition.

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A Wisconsin man could spend 30 years in prison for selling stolen Kohl's Cash on Twitter. Robert Gordon pleaded guilty to two federal counts related to fraud last week.

A former Madison lawyer suspended for frivolously suing a judge in her foreclosure case is fighting another complaint from the Office of Lawyer Regulation. Wendy Nora could lose her license for another two years for alleged misconduct surrounding her client representation in state and federal foreclosure cases.

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A western Wisconsin woman accused of fatally stabbing her ex-boyfriend says she was afraid he was going to kill her.

A lawsuit in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will determine if employees at a Fort Atkinson food production factory should receive back pay for putting on work clothes before a shift and taking them off afterward.

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Authorities in Micronesia said Monday they have arrested suspects in the slaying of an American prosecutor who was working as acting attorney general of the state of Yap in the Pacific nation.

When the Madison barber and business owner Brian Britt, 42, stepped up to a folding table in the entryway of the Urban League of Greater Madison, he had a single goal in his mind: Wipe from his record the decades-old criminal convictions he says are holding him back.

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly will square off next month against his two challengers in their first debate.

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A Milwaukee lawyer is pleading not guilty to felony charges for abusing and stalking a woman for years. Matthew Meyer of Meyer Van Severen entered the plea in Milwaukee County Court on Monday morning.

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Former House Speaker Paul Ryan has started a new nonprofit organization he says will be devoted to fighting poverty, increasing economic opportunities and advancing evidence-based public policies.

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Law enforcement officers are investigating the third shooting along a Milwaukee interstate in less than two weeks.

Madison police report no major incidents at this year's Freakfest celebration.

Milwaukee police say several people have been arrested in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a 6-year-old girl and seriously injured her sister and cousin.

A former Milwaukee alderman who confessed to accepting $30,000 from the owner of a downtown strip club “didn’t see what he was doing as illegal,” according to records from the FBI.

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The three charges against Kovac carry a maximum 23 years in prison upon conviction. Kovac's attorney didn't immediately return a phone call seeking comment.

Gov. Tony Evers is seeking applicants for open positions for a Milwaukee County judge and a Crawford County district attorney. He announced both vacancies on Friday.

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A judge has declared a mistrial in a Janesville fatal stabbing case after a bailiff said the jury deliberations had become "toxic."

The Wisconsin girl who was lured into the woods by two friends and stabbed 19 times in an attempt to please a fictional horror character called Slender Man said she's come to terms with some things involved in the attack but still sleeps with broken scissors "just in case."

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