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Feb 9, 2022

Judge orders Vos, watchdog group to resolve records issue

A judge on Tuesday ordered attorneys to meet and try and resolve their dispute over whether Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos turned over all requested records related to the ongoing investigation into the 2020 presidential race.

Feb 8, 2022

Bipartisan bill to build juvenile prison near Milwaukee

A new juvenile prison would be built near Milwaukee under a bipartisan bill that would authorize borrowing $42 million for the project.

Feb 8, 2022

Trial of man charged with killing 2 Wisconsin men delayed

A Missouri man charged with killing two brothers from Wisconsin will not go to trial until March of next year, a judge has ruled.

Feb 8, 2022

Medical examiner IDs 3 dead in Wisconsin apartment shooting

The medical examiner's office on Monday identified the three people killed in a shooting at a suburban Milwaukee apartment building, including the man police say shot the two others before killing himself.

Feb 8, 2022

Vos fights attempts to ID deleted election probe records

Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is trying to block a liberal watchdog group's attempts to have him identify records that were illegally destroyed related to the ongoing investigation into the 2020 presidential election.

Feb 8, 2022

Wisconsin GOP looks to block abortions if heartbeat detected

Wisconsin Republicans have introduced a bill that would prohibit abortions in the state if a fetal heartbeat is detected.

Feb 8, 2022

Barlament joins Reinhart’s Employee Benefits Practice

John Barlament has joined Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren's Employee Benefits Practice as a shareholder.

Feb 7, 2022

2nd guilty plea planned in alleged plot to kidnap Whitmer

A man charged in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has agreed to plead guilty, according to documents filed Monday, giving prosecutors another insider who could be a central witness at a March trial.

Feb 7, 2022

Ex-justice’s Wisconsin election probe drags as critics scoff

The leader of a sprawling, taxpayer-funded probe of Joe Biden's victory in battleground Wisconsin ignited his political career in 2008 by unseating the first Black justice on the state Supreme Court, capitalizing on an ad that sparked ethics complaints and allegations of racism.

Feb 7, 2022

State AG races become litmus test for GOP election claims

Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, a Republican, has won re-election multiple times in a state where the GOP dominates politically and, in his telling, has "a 20-year track record of calling balls and strikes fairly and squarely."

Feb 7, 2022

Bipartisan Wisconsin business coalition backs elections head

A bipartisan group of prominent Wisconsin business leaders is voicing support for the state's embattled elections administrator, her staff and local election officials, issuing a letter Monday backing Meagan Wolfe even as Republicans have called for her resignation and pursued investigations into how the 2020 election was run.

Feb 4, 2022

Evers vetoes bill that would have allowed teens to work late

Gov. Tony Evers on Friday vetoed a bill opposed by labor unions that would have allowed teenagers to work longer hours during the busy summer tourism months.

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