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A Hudson attorney faces a two-year license suspension over allegations that he violated more than a dozen attorney-ethics rules.

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A 17-year-old typed out pages on how he planned to fatally shoot his grandparents and law-enforcement officials found those notes with a book on an executioner in the teen's backpack after he called 911 and confessed to the killings, prosecutors in Wisconsin said Tuesday.

A bipartisan plan released on Tuesday to prevent future backlogs of sexual-assault kits in Wisconsin would set new timelines and protocols for nurses, victims and members of law enforcement.

Gov. Tony Evers on Monday announced his picks for a committee that interviews and recommends candidates for appointments to judicial vacancies.

Gov. Tony Evers is taking applications for a vacant register of deeds position in Milwaukee County.

A Hudson family injured during a 2013 parade accident has settled a lawsuit against the Shriners.

A state appeals court has ordered a new trial in a medical-malpractice lawsuit alleging a Milwaukee doctor didn't take steps to protect a baby from brain damage.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to consider a legal challenge to Republican-backed laws passed in a lame-duck session last year that limited the powers of the state's newly elected governor and attorney general.

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Hupy and Abraham celebrated it 50th anniversary with a gathering on April 15 at its office in downtown Milwaukee.

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A 17-year-old told investigators that he fatally shot his grandparents and was planning to cause harm at his eastern Wisconsin high school, police said Monday.

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Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul has successfully withdrawn Wisconsin from a multistate lawsuit challenging a federal rule regulating certain air pollutants, including mercury.

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A Wood County court commissioner recently admitted to allegations of judicial misconduct.

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Keyon Jackson-Malone got involved in violence when he was a young man even though, earlier, he had helped resolve disputes as a peer mediator at Morse Middle School.

The state Department of Justice's work to test thousands of rape kits has resulted in charges against less than a half-dozen people so far.

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The Wisconsin National Guard received 52 reports of sexual assault between 2013 and 2017, more than half of which were related to military service, Guard officials said during a roundtable with reporters Thursday.

A sheriff deputy's pursuit has had deadly consequences in Milwaukee.

A man accused in a hit-and-run crash that killed three Girl Scouts and a mother as they collected trash along a highway in Wisconsin is due in court.

The former president of the Milwaukee Public Schools board of directors is accused in a bribery scheme involving a Pennsylvania company that operated several charter schools, including three in Milwaukee.

Lisa Neubauer conceded to Brian Hagedorn on Wednesday, a week after Democrats woke to a shocking result.

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Court documents say the central Wisconsin parents arrested in the death of their newborn told police they didn't believe doctors who said the woman was pregnant.

The Waukesha County district attorney says a police officer's recent use of deadly force was warranted because the armed suspect who died was a threat and had aggressively encouraged the officer to shoot him.

The state Supreme Court wrestled on Wednesday with whether to let the governor trump the state schools superintendent's policies, a decision that could hand de facto control of Wisconsin schools to the schools and undo a ruling the justices handed down two years ago establishing the superintendent's independence.

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The liberal candidate in Wisconsin's Supreme Court race conceded Wednesday, deciding against a recount eight days after the election showed her conservative opponent ahead by 6,000 votes in a race seen as an early measure of a key battleground in the 2020 presidential campaign.

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One of the things Richard Sankovitz misses most about being a judge is being in court.

A state appeals court says a warden properly cited a Waukesha County landowner for harassing duck hunters.

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Two attorneys are suing the State Bar of Wisconsin over the bar dues lawyers must pay to practice in the state.

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Prosecutors say a Wisconsin Dells man who fatally stabbed his wife stayed in their home with her body for nearly a week after killing her, sometimes with their 2-year-old daughter.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a lawsuit that will decide whether the state schools superintendent or the governor controls K-12 public education policy.

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A Wisconsin appeals court sided with Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday, ruling that he had the authority to withdraw appointments made by then-Gov. Scott Walker and approved by Republicans during a lame-duck legislative session.

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Gov. Tony Evers is looking for candidates to fill a soon-to-be vacant register of deeds position in Racine County.