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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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Wisconsin Republicans are pursuing changes in state law to ban labeling food as meat, milk or dairy if it doesn't contain those products.

Nearly 250 people sent an open letter to Gov. Tony Evers in support of Brendan Dassey's petition for executive clemency.

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An open-records request the business group Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce has made to the Wisconsin Judicial Council is coming with a series of accusations alleging poor procedure and misrepresentation.

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Three more people have been charged in what investigators say was a large black-market operation for the manufacture of THC-vape cartridges in southeastern Wisconsin.

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A jury has found a Wisconsin man guilty of killing his wife and hiding her body.

A Missouri cattle farmer charged Wednesday with two counts of first-degree murder shot two brothers from Wisconsin, burned their bodies and dumped the remains on a manure pile on his property, investigators said.

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A Lindner & Marsack shareholder has been appointed to the Native Nations Law Task Force.

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The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded more than $550,000 in grants to address school violence in Wisconsin. The DOJ announced the awards this week.

Authorities in eastern Wisconsin say they know who killed an 18-year-old woman in 1984.

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Prosecutors in western Wisconsin are trying to prove a woman accused of fatally stabbing her ex- boyfriend staged a phony crime scene in an attempt to claim self-defense.

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The trial for a man accused of plotting a mass shooting in defense of Islam at a Masonic temple in downtown Milwaukee has been delayed.

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Voters are more than twice as confident in the U.S. Supreme Court than the other branches of government, according to Marquette Law School poll results announced Monday.

A Milwaukee lawyer will lose her license for six months as a result of nearly a dozen misconduct charges.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended the licenses of two out-of-state lawyers Tuesday. The punishments were reciprocal discipline for violations in the lawyers' home states.

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The National Guard is investigating allegations that Wisconsin commanders are trying to force a sergeant out of the service after he complained about sexual misconduct in his unit.