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A Wisconsin man is facing a dozen federal charges in an alleged money-laundering scheme that authorities say involved selling luxury cars overseas by defrauding local car dealers.

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A federal judge has sentenced a second attorney for defrauding Johnson Controls out of $4.5 million.

Sheila Reiff had once planned to become an interpreter.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court won’t increase pay for court-appointed attorneys until January 2020.

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Gov. Scott Walker has appointed a long-time Florence County employee to be the new county register of deeds.

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Senate confirmation votes for U.S. Supreme Court justices since 1986, by party.

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A Wisconsin woman accused of trying to plan terrorist attacks using hacked social media accounts has pleaded not guilty to charges against her.

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement Wednesday, giving President Donald Trump a golden chance to cement conservative control of the high court.

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The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers can't be forced to contribute to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining, dealing a serious blow to organized labor.

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A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the state's ban on joint ownership of cemeteries and funeral homes, rejecting a lawsuit from a cemetery owner who argued that the prohibition is anti-competitive, irrational and unconstitutional.

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State Superintendent Tony Evers, a Democratic candidate for governor, is entitled to his own attorney in a lawsuit challenging his constitutional powers, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the state's cap on noneconomic medical malpractice damages on Wednesday, reversing a lower-court ruling that awarded $15 million to a woman who had all four limbs amputated after a mishandled infection.

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A judge has sentenced a Wisconsin man to 13 years in prison for locking a woman inside a wooden box in his basement and sexually assaulting her.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided to end the court's long-standing three-tier system for deferring to state agencies' interpretations of statutes.

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Matt Flynn rejected calls on Tuesday from two fellow Democrats to drop out of the race for governor because he had worked to defend the Archdiocese of Milwaukee against claims of sexual abuse by priests.

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A state appeals court says a man who phoned in a bomb threat to a Milwaukee television station was properly sentenced.

The U.S. Supreme Court says a California law that forces anti-abortion pregnancy centers to provide information about abortion probably violates the Constitution.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld President Donald Trump's ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries, rejecting a challenge that it discriminated against Muslims or exceeded his authority.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court is reviewing how the state's open records law applies to the court system, sparking concern among government transparency advocates that justices may close off legal documents to the public.

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Wisconsin taxpayers spent nearly $41,000 to send state senators on out-of-state trips since 2015, including to President Donald Trump's first state-of-the-union address.

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The Supreme Court handed American Express a victory on Monday in a lawsuit over rules it imposes on merchants who accept its cards.

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The Supreme Court is choosing not to take on a new case on partisan redistricting for now.

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A former Milton attorney who was suspended for embezzling money from his firm is attempting to get his law license back.

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A federal bankruptcy court has ruled that the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families must give back more than $3,000 to a woman in Madison.

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The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it won't weigh in on the case of a teenager convicted of rape and murder whose story was documented in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer."

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Wisconsin schools bracing for the next mass shooting are turning to gunshot-detecting sensors that police across the country rely on, hoping the technology will lead to faster response times when there's an active shooter.

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Police generally need a warrant to look at records that reveal where cellphone users have been, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday in a big victory for privacy interests in the digital age.

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A man with three drunken-driving convictions is charged with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle in the death of a pedestrian who was struck and killed in Milwaukee earlier this week.

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A North Dakota judge says that nearly 500 pounds of marijuana seized during a vehicle stop cannot be used as evidence because a county deputy did not have a good reason to be suspicious.

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The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has issued a warning about synthetic marijuana products that have recently sent people to the hospital with severe bleeding.

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