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A Milwaukee trial-court judge and a law professor will be taking part in a formal discussion this week about childhood trauma and the courts.

An Eau Claire attorney is denying allegations of misconduct brought by the state’s lawyer regulation agency earlier this year.

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A 4-year-old girl spent about eight hours in her family's van in a Milwaukee city tow lot on a below-freezing night after her mother was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

A Democratic state senator is vowing to resurrect a bill that would rework how Wisconsin draws legislative district boundaries.

A former Pilot Flying J president convicted of fraud will get to spend Christmas at home.

A Black Panther "slash claw" and a plastic Power Rangers sword are among the items topping a consumer safety group's annual list of worst toys for the holiday season.

A family accused of running phony charities to help wounded vets and rescue abused horses has been ordered to pay nearly $9 million in a California state lawsuit.

An inmate has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he mailed threats to a Jewish Community Center in suburban Milwaukee.

The Legislature's finance committee has approved Gov.-elect Tony Evers' transition budget.

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The parent who took a photo of a group of Wisconsin high school boys giving what appears to be a Nazi salute on the steps of a local courthouse said on Tuesday he was simply asking the teens to wave goodbye to their parents before they headed off to prom and never expected the image would draw such widespread condemnation.

A state appeals court isn't letting a man withdraw his guilty plea in a gruesome homicide in northern Wisconsin.

A lawyer who serves as an assistant attorney general and part-time judge is accused of sexually exploiting children.

A police officer fatally shot an armed security guard who was wearing a hat with "security" emblazoned across the front and holding a man down following a shooting inside the suburban Chicago bar where the guard worked, an attorney for the guard's family said Monday after filing a federal lawsuit.

Nevada's public hospital in Las Vegas has been ordered to pay nearly $820,000 in sanctions and attorney fees for failing to produce required emails, text messages and computer records in an ongoing federal employee wages lawsuit.

A legal principle that erased former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez's murder conviction after he killed himself in prison is outdated, unfair and should not stand, a Massachusetts prosecutor told the state's highest court Thursday.

A man who fought for more than a decade to maintain his rights to a mining claim in northwestern Montana died two days after a jury awarded him nearly $2.6 million.

Milwaukee police say an officer shot and wounded a 42-year-old man on the city's northwest side.

Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers named his transition team Monday, as Republicans who control the Legislature continued to privately discuss ways to protect laws they passed and curtail the new governor's power before he takes office in January.

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal by Virginia Republicans who are trying to preserve state legislative districts that were struck down by a lower court for being racially discriminatory.

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Pabst Brewing Co. and MillerCoors are going to trial, with hipster favorite Pabst contending that MillerCoors wants to put it out of business by ending a longstanding partnership through which it brews Pabst's beers.

A Wisconsin school district is investigating a photo of a group of high school boys giving what appears to be a Nazi salute.

Gov.-elect Tony Evers has some big ideas about how to reform Wisconsin's overcrowded prison system.

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Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials are refusing to release records detailing allegations that an agency employee harassed female co-workers at a hotel in Milwaukee, saying such a disclosure would hurt workers' morale and that people make mistakes.

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With the hunting season on the horizon, the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation is reminding hunters and rural landowners about the state’s trespassing laws.

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Milwaukee police say a 23-year-old man has been killed in a hit-and-run crash.

A Milwaukee man accused of threatening a polling place on election day is facing several charges, including recklessly endangering safety and carrying a concealed weapon.

The Madison Fire Department may make changes to its health programs and policies as federal officials plan to investigate the death of one of the department's members.

"Here's our thistle! This is a rare, very rare plant," retired wetland ecologist Pat Trochlell exclaimed as she stood at the edge of Lake Michigan on a clear, windy and unseasonably cool day in October.

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The father of a Connecticut lawyer found shot to death in an overturned SUV is trying to obtain DNA samples from first responders as he seeks to disprove the police conclusion that his son killed himself.

A Milwaukee County judge has vacated the contempt order against a government defense attorney.

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