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Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Lisa Neubauer is emphasizing endorsements she's received from more than 330 current and former judges in her first television ad of the race.

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In his first proposed budget, Gov. Tony Evers called on Thursday for increasing the private bar rate, adding more prosecutors and giving merit-based raises to certain government attorneys.

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The operators of a foster home in Oshkosh are facing child neglect charges involving three teens who stayed at the house for several months.

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A couple and a third parent cited for fighting at a youth wrestling tournament in the Fox Valley have agreed to drop their restraining orders against each other.

A Wisconsin man is facing at least his 10th drunken driving charge.

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A complaint has been filed against former Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy, accusing him of verbally berating referees after a loss for his stepson's high school basketball team.

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A referee is recommending that the Wisconsin Supreme Court suspend the license of a Walworth County attorney for 60 days over several charges of misconduct.

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A Racine father is accused of inflicting injuries that caused the death of his baby.

A Wisconsin man has been indicted for causing the death of an Illinois state trooper who was helping victims in a multiple-vehicle highway crash.

Milwaukee County may be preparing to sue VJS Construction and HGA Architects over change orders that cost the county about $250,000 during construction of an elephant exhibit at the Milwaukee County Zoo.

Gov. Tony Evers' pick to lead the Wisconsin Department of Health Services on Wednesday defended naming a former vice president at Planned Parenthood as a top deputy, saying she won't have any involvement in lawsuits challenging the state's abortion laws.

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Liberal-backed Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Lisa Neubauer is drawing criticism from her opponent for attending a climate change march protesting the environmental agenda of President Donald Trump.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reinstated the license of a Milwaukee attorney who was suspended about 20 years ago.

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A lawyer from the state Department of Health Services and a former attorney were recently appointed to leadership positions at the state Department of Workforce Development.

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A Milwaukee man who tried to join and fight for the Islamic State has been sentenced to seven years in a federal prison.

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The coaches of a Wisconsin cheerleading squad have been banned from competitions following complaints about a banquet that included gag awards for team members' breasts and buttocks.

Gov. Tony Evers wants to indefinitely delay closing the state's troubled juvenile prison, spend nearly $200 million more on replacement facilities and increase the age for charging juveniles as adults from 17 to 18.

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Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers will call for enacting a nonpartisan redistricting process as part of the state budget he introduces on Thursday.

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A man charged in the shooting death of a Milwaukee police officer last summer changed his plea to guilty as opening statements were to begin in his trial.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended an Oshkosh attorney’s license for 90 days.

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A Wisconsin woman accused of killing three infants, including her son, in the 1980s has pleaded guilty to criminal charges.

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A new report confirms what advocates of replacing Green Bay's maximum-security institution have long been arguing: the prison is overcrowded, out-of-date and dangerous.

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A DeForest man has pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally dealing guns.

A fraternity at the University of Wisconsin has been suspended after younger members were allegedly pressured to run errands, wear "Dora the Explorer" backpacks and carry fruit around campus.

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Two Milwaukee police officers have been cleared in the fatal shooting in October of a man who was firing shots at them.

In May 2014, two 12-year-old Waukesha girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, lured their friend, Payton Leutner, into a Waukesha park and stabbed her 19 times.

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Federal authorities say five people have been indicted over allegations that they cut down trees on the Menominee Indian Reservation in order to sell timber to saw mills outside the reservation without the consent of the Wisconsin tribe.

A Wisconsin accountant accused of stealing more than $800,000 in a tax scheme has been sentenced in federal court.

A former Wisconsin man is charged with first-degree murder decades after the disappearance of his wife, whom he said stormed out of their home after an argument in 1979 and has not been seen since.

Brad Fulton started at the bottom at DeWitt.

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