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By JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press SCOTT TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — Rose Mary Knick makes no bones about it. She doesn’t buy that there are bodies buried on her eastern Pennsylvania farmland, and she doesn’t want people strolling onto her property to ...

By SCOTT SONNER, Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Las Vegas entertainer who lost his job on an Australian cruise ship while jailed in rural Nevada on $675,000 bail for a residential burglary is suing two counties for holding him ...

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FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — The suspect in the shooting of seven law-enforcement officers in South Carolina is a disbarred lawyer who has been charged several times in recent years, starting with a 2014 count of disorderly conduct. Authorities identified the ...

A Wisconsin Department of Justice task force on Wednesday released draft legislation designed to protect senior citizens and vulnerable adults from exploitation, including bills that would define new crimes, create penalty enhancers and speed up court proceedings for elderly victims and witnesses.

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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s City Council has changed a city ordinance in a move that would essentially stop a so-called robot brothel from opening. A Canadian company had said it wants to open a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared willing Tuesday to extend protection from capital punishment to people with dementia who can't recall their crime or understand the circumstances of their execution.

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CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A jury has found a personal injury lawyer in suburban St. Louis guilty of causing a woman’s 2016 death by street racing another car. The jury found 45-year-old Scott Bailey guilty Friday of second-degree manslaughter in ...

ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — A jury has awarded a paralyzed boy and his family $44.5 million in their medical negligence lawsuit against an Ohio laboratory. The Franklin County jury’s verdict against Athens Medical Laboratory Inc. was announced recently in the ...

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Police are investigating the deaths of two men whose bodies were found in a Waukesha townhome. Officers were called to the home about 2 p.m. Tuesday to check on the welfare of a resident. That’s when ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police say a teenage driver was killed while fleeing from police and crashing his vehicle in Milwaukee. Officers say they saw the 19-year-old man driving in a reckless manner about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday on the city’s south ...

By SCOTT BAUER MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Legislature plans to return the week after the November election for a lame duck session to vote on a $100 million tax incentive bill that would keep paper products maker Kimberly-Clark ...

A Pierce County sheriff's deputy is charged with sexually assaulting a child.

A Milwaukee attorney faces a four-month license suspension over allegedly mishandling State Public Defender appointments.

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A television station is reporting that Gov. Scott Walker's administration told former prisons Secretary Ed Wall to cancel his request for a prison-administrator association to investigate abuse at Wisconsin's youth prison.

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The White House has given the FBI clearance to interview anyone it wants to by Friday in its investigation of sexual misconduct allegations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A health care company has agreed to pay $270 million to resolve allegations it provided inaccurate information to Medicare, federal prosecutors said Monday. DaVita Medical Holdings admitted to practices that caused incorrect diagnosis codes to be ...

Madison police say a man with a history of domestic abuse shot and killed a woman he had been seeing before killing himself over the weekend.

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A New Jersey attorney has admitted running a large-scale mortgage fraud scheme that caused millions of dollars in losses.

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PLATTE CITY, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court will not review a reprimand the Missouri Supreme Court issued against Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd. Missouri’s high court reprimanded Zahnd in May for publicly naming some residents of a northwest ...

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the storm before the calm at the Supreme Court. Americans watched Thursday’s high court nomination hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh with rapt attention. The televised spectacle was filled with ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson’s appeal of his murder conviction in the drowning death of his third wife. The Chicago Sun-Times reports the high court refused Monday to ...

The Milwaukee Bar Association is recognizing an attorney and a Marquette law student for the pro bono legal work they've done.

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Gov. Scott Walker has appointed a Milwaukee lawyer to fill an open seat on the Racine County Circuit Court bench.

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A pizza-delivery driver in southeastern Wisconsin who saw a woman with a black eye mouthing "help me" at a delivery address is credited with alerting police to a kidnapping.

With all of her necessary documentation, the University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brooke Evans arrived at her polling place on Nov. 8, 2016, for the presidential election.

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Julie Swetnick, one of the women who has publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, has an extensive history of involvement in legal disputes, including a lawsuit in which an ex-employer accused her of falsifying her college and work history on her job application.

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Senate Republicans have pushed Brett Kavanaugh's U.S. Supreme Court nomination past a procedural hurdle, but a confirmation vote remains delayed for at least a week amid a new FBI investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel is trying to brand his Democratic challenger as soft on drug offenders.

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