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Nearly a dozen lawsuits that could net the state millions of dollars are in limbo thanks to a dispute between Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul and Republicans who passed a lame-duck law giving them final say over settlements.

The Dane County Medical Examiner's Office has identified the victim of a homicide as a 17-year-old boy.

An Oklahoma judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state's opioid drug crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million to help abate the problem in the coming years.

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Attorney General Josh Kaul is warning that a resurgence of online vigilantes posing as children to trap and embarrass sexual predators is hampering police efforts.

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U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy, who represents northern Wisconsin in Congress, is resigning next month.

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Records show a longtime Chicago alderman facing corruption charges is no longer a partner at a law firm that’s central to a federal criminal case against him.

Madison police investigating the city's first homicide of the year say they cannot discount a continued threat to the public.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly has been ticketed for failing to stop at a stop sign after the car he was driving slammed into a van, sending two people to the hospital.

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A man who pushed for Minnesota's hands-free driving law says he wants to take his fight to Wisconsin.

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The Bois Forte Band of Chippewa needed a larger courthouse.

The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed radiation therapy for a tumor on her pancreas and there is no evidence of the disease remaining.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has revoked the license of a Milwaukee lawyer who, according to a court-appointed referee, treated his clients like a “cash cow.”

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A panel of federal judges has ruled that Democrats who challenged Republican-drawn political boundary maps do not have to pay attorneys' fees and costs the GOP incurred in defending the maps against a gerrymandering lawsuit.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to release opinions on Friday in two lawyer-discipline cases.

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Gov. Tony Evers says Republican concerns over a pair of gun-control bills he's pushing are "BS" and he's thinking of forcing lawmakers into a special session to take up the proposals.

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A Wisconsin man accused of killing his wife 13 years ago has been extradited to Missouri to stand trial.

The Wisconsin Claims Board is schedled to hear a former prison inmate's demand for nearly $6 million in compensation.

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A staff member at a Green Bay high school is accused of sexually assaulting a male student.

A Maine lawyer is faced with the suspension of his Wisconsin law license as a reciprocal disciplinary measure for failing to report professional misconduct in Maine.

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A Wisconsin man is accused of threatening to open fire at a Menards distribution center.

A judge has ordered a Wisconsin woman to spend at least nine months in jail for harming her baby in a hospital.

A state appeals court says a Darien man was properly convicted of threatening police on Facebook.

Gov. Tony Evers' pick to head the Wisconsin Department of Health Services has won approval from a Republican-controlled legislative committee.

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A bipartisan proposal designed to help Wisconsin's fledgling hemp industry has been modified to appease law-enforcement officials.

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If drywall and flooring could talk, it'd probably have a dark story to tell about Wisconsin's ongoing construction boom.

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A man charged with tampering with a vehicle owned by two missing Wisconsin brothers is facing new charges in Kansas.

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Two Republican legislators introduced legislation Tuesday that would combat elder abuse by increasing criminal penalties and allowing financial advisers and bankers to delay seniors' questionable transactions.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has reinstated expelled wide receiver Quintez Cephus following an acquittal on a sexual assault charge.

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Wisconsin police have identified the man who was fatally shot by an officer after he allegedly attacked the officer.