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The Legislature's finance committee has approved Gov.-elect Tony Evers' transition budget.

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The parent who took a photo of a group of Wisconsin high school boys giving what appears to be a Nazi salute on the steps of a local courthouse said on Tuesday he was simply asking the teens to wave goodbye to their parents before they headed off to prom and never expected the image would draw such widespread condemnation.

A state appeals court isn't letting a man withdraw his guilty plea in a gruesome homicide in northern Wisconsin.

A lawyer who serves as an assistant attorney general and part-time judge is accused of sexually exploiting children.

A police officer fatally shot an armed security guard who was wearing a hat with "security" emblazoned across the front and holding a man down following a shooting inside the suburban Chicago bar where the guard worked, an attorney for the guard's family said Monday after filing a federal lawsuit.

Nevada's public hospital in Las Vegas has been ordered to pay nearly $820,000 in sanctions and attorney fees for failing to produce required emails, text messages and computer records in an ongoing federal employee wages lawsuit.

A legal principle that erased former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez's murder conviction after he killed himself in prison is outdated, unfair and should not stand, a Massachusetts prosecutor told the state's highest court Thursday.

A man who fought for more than a decade to maintain his rights to a mining claim in northwestern Montana died two days after a jury awarded him nearly $2.6 million.

Milwaukee police say an officer shot and wounded a 42-year-old man on the city's northwest side.

Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers named his transition team Monday, as Republicans who control the Legislature continued to privately discuss ways to protect laws they passed and curtail the new governor's power before he takes office in January.

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal by Virginia Republicans who are trying to preserve state legislative districts that were struck down by a lower court for being racially discriminatory.

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Pabst Brewing Co. and MillerCoors are going to trial, with hipster favorite Pabst contending that MillerCoors wants to put it out of business by ending a longstanding partnership through which it brews Pabst's beers.

A Wisconsin school district is investigating a photo of a group of high school boys giving what appears to be a Nazi salute.

Gov.-elect Tony Evers has some big ideas about how to reform Wisconsin's overcrowded prison system.

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Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials are refusing to release records detailing allegations that an agency employee harassed female co-workers at a hotel in Milwaukee, saying such a disclosure would hurt workers' morale and that people make mistakes.

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With the hunting season on the horizon, the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation is reminding hunters and rural landowners about the state’s trespassing laws.

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Milwaukee police say a 23-year-old man has been killed in a hit-and-run crash.

A Milwaukee man accused of threatening a polling place on election day is facing several charges, including recklessly endangering safety and carrying a concealed weapon.

The Madison Fire Department may make changes to its health programs and policies as federal officials plan to investigate the death of one of the department's members.

"Here's our thistle! This is a rare, very rare plant," retired wetland ecologist Pat Trochlell exclaimed as she stood at the edge of Lake Michigan on a clear, windy and unseasonably cool day in October.

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The father of a Connecticut lawyer found shot to death in an overturned SUV is trying to obtain DNA samples from first responders as he seeks to disprove the police conclusion that his son killed himself.

A Milwaukee County judge has vacated the contempt order against a government defense attorney.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently issued an order adopting a modification to the state’s default-judgment rule.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reprimanded the mayor of Fitchburg's for his legal work on behalf of two clients.

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Wisconsin state Sen. Scott Fitzgerald has been re-elected as majority leader, two days after Republicans picked up a seat over Democrats.

Conservationists and outdoors enthusiasts hope Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers will re-energize Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources after years of cuts under Republican Scott Walker, counting on him to return the agency to a science-based footing and get tougher on polluters and chronic wasting disease.

A Wisconsin political activist who unsuccessfully ran for House Speaker Paul Ryan's seat in the last two Republican primaries has been indicted on charges alleging that he tried to buy a lethal dose of radioactive material in order to kill someone.

Wisconsin Republican lawmakers on Thursday privately discussed ways they could limit the incoming Democratic governor before he takes office, which the governor-elect described as a "desperate attempt to cling to power."

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded a Madison attorney who is also the mayor of Fitchburg.

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Fraser Shipyards says it has settled lawsuits involving dozens of workers who were exposed to lead while working on an old freighter in Superior.