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Attorney General Brad Schimel says he fears sexual-assault allegations against the U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have become so politicized that victims won't come forward any more.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says deportation officers arrested 83 people in 14 Wisconsin counties over four days ending on Monday.

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Authorities have confirmed the identity of a body found last week in Lake Huron in northern Michigan.

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A top Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly gave up his leadership post on Wednesday but ignored Gov. Scott Walker's call to resign after making what he called "stupid comments while under the influence of alcohol" to three female legislators.

LONDON (AP) — A paperback copy of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” used by the judge in the book’s landmark U.K. obscenity trial is expected to sell at auction for up to $20,000. Penguin Books was prosecuted in 1960 for publishing D.H. ...

A man drove an Alaska Native woman to a dark street, said he would kill her and choked her until she blacked out.

Quarles & Brady will have a new managing partner starting Oct. 1.

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CHICAGO (AP) — A Cook County judge was reassigned to administrative duties after the state’s attorney’s office complained the man used an obscenity in referring to a female prosecutor. The Chicago Tribune reports Judge Mauricio Araujo allegedly became upset earlier ...

The Wisconsin Elections Commission has agreed to allow local election clerks to reinstate voter registration for voters who were wrongly cut from the rolls last year.

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The Milwaukee County GOP deleted a tweet Tuesday that mocks Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by suggesting President Abraham Lincoln groped her.

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A security official for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security says no new threats against election security in Wisconsin have been detected to date ahead of the November midterm election.

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A group is suing the state Department of Justice to obtain records related to the Affordable Care Act.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court will be holding a public hearing next month on a proposal to change the state’s default-judgment rule.

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A Racine alderwoman says a judge has postponed her contempt hearing.

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A sequel to the popular "Making a Murderer" documentary series is set to premiere Oct. 19 on Netflix.

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New campaign finance reports show the Democratic attorney general hopeful Josh Kaul outraised the Republican incumbent Brad Schimel in August.

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A group supporting Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel is releasing a new television ad painting his challenger as inexperienced.

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GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A Southeast Texas city has been ordered to pay nearly $15 million to a fired contractor that was overseeing some federally funded housing recovery after Hurricane Ike hit in 2008. The Galveston County Daily News reports ...

The Wisconsin Department of Justice is investigating a retired county prosecutor over date requests he allegedly made to women who had cases in his county.

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The owners of the largest swath of private land left near the massive factory Foxconn Technology Group is building in southeast Wisconsin are suing to prevent the village of Mount Pleasant from seizing a sliver of the land for a road-expansion project.

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A partner at a Wauwatosa-based firm faces a year-long suspension over allegations that he took thousands of dollars that belonged to his firm.

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President Donald Trump will meet later this week with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the White House said on Monday amid signs that Rosenstein was about to lose his job.

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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Leah Vukmir says opponents of the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh are engaging in "last-minute character assassination."

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A judge could decide during a secret hearing that an alderwoman is in contempt for complaining about his decision to seal her open records lawsuit.

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Milwaukee residents are raising safety concerns about the city's new streetcar which will begin operations in November.

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A new non-partisan, nonprofit political group is hoping to improve ethics in Wisconsin politics.

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Opposition to Brett Kavanaugh is growing among his would-be peers.

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The parents of a 19-year-old Wisconsin student whose body was found in the Tiber River in Rome have testified in the Italian capital at a homeless man's manslaughter trial.

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Dane County sheriff's officials say a deputy arrested the same woman twice for drunken driving within an hour and a-half.

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The Judicial Council on Friday approved a biennial budget request that asks the governor and state Legislature for money to hire a staff attorney, pay for office space and equipment and reimburse its members for travel expenses.

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