February 25, 2020
12:47 pm
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced Tuesday that he has joined nearly 40 other state attorneys general in an investigation into whether the electronic-cigarette giant Juul Labs Inc.'s advertising is intended mainly for underage youth.
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February 25, 2020
12:11 pm
The Wisconsin Supreme Court justices agreed on Tuesday on the outcome of a convicted murderer's appeal to the high court, but they disagreed on the way their decision was reached.
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February 25, 2020
11:57 am
Members of the Wisconsin Judicial Council are asking Gov. Tony Evers to save the independent body from elimination. The council's chair sent Evers a letter on Tuesday requesting a veto to an amendment recently tacked on to a pay-parity bill for state public defenders.
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February 25, 2020
11:50 am
A western Wisconsin school superintendent accused of sex crimes was released from custody Monday under orders that he remain under house arrest.
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February 24, 2020
2:05 pm
The law license of a prominent attorney at Milwaukee firm Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown has been suspended for 60 days because of misconduct in two divorce cases.
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February 24, 2020
1:55 pm
A U.S. appeals court on Monday upheld Trump administration changes that include additional hurdles for those seeking abortions through a federal program that helps low-income women.
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February 24, 2020
1:27 pm
Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday of rape and sexual assault against two women and was immediately led off to jail in handcuffs, sealing his dizzying fall from powerful Hollywood studio boss to archvillain of the #MeToo movement.
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February 24, 2020
11:50 am
The longtime Republican state lawmaker Luther Olsen, a moderate in the Republican majority who survived a 2011 recall attempt and served as head of the Senate's Education Committee, announced Monday that he will not seek re-election.
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February 21, 2020
4:15 pm
The Wisconsin Judicial Council could be eliminated under an amendment introduced to a bill to restore pay parity to Wisconsin State Public Defenders.
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February 21, 2020
12:58 pm
A bill to restore pay parity for Wisconsin State Public Defenders is moving forward in the legislature but now with an attached amendment that would eliminate the state's judicial council.
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February 21, 2020
11:38 am
Sandie Giernoth is the newest Washington County Circuit Court judge. Gov. Tony Evers announced her appointment to the bench on Friday.
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February 21, 2020
11:32 am
The Wisconsin AFL-CIO labor union is endorsing Judge Jill Karofsky in the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court.
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February 21, 2020
9:24 am
By TODD RICHMOND and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Legislature on Thursday sent a plan to reduce income taxes by $250 million to Gov. Tony Evers, who appears likely to veto it. The Senate and ...
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February 21, 2020
8:52 am
The state Assembly walked back a bill Thursday that would have allowed bars throughout Wisconsin to stay open later during the Democratic National Convention this summer, tweaking the proposal to allow extended hours only for taverns in the southeastern corner of the state before passing it on to the Senate.
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February 21, 2020
8:44 am
The daughter of a Wisconsin state lawmaker was sentenced Thursday to 13 years in prison for providing drugs that killed a pregnant woman.
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February 21, 2020
8:38 am
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — No one under 21 would be allowed to purchase cigarettes or vaping products under a bill the state Assembly approved Thursday. A person must now be at least 18 to purchase cigarettes, tobacco, nicotine or vaping ...
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February 21, 2020
8:33 am
A school superintendent in western Wisconsin was arrested Thursday on federal charges of the sex trafficking of a minor and production of child pornography.
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February 21, 2020
7:20 am
A nurse convicted of injuring nine infants at a Wisconsin hospital has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.
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February 20, 2020
12:28 pm
A $100,000 settlement was reached in a car-crash case in Dane County on Jan. 28, 2019.
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February 20, 2020
12:25 pm
A Milwaukee lawyer sentenced for stealing more than $301,000 from his clients will lose his law license for four-and-a-half years.
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February 20, 2020
11:27 am
A proposal that began as a bipartisan effort to prevent future delays in the testing of kits for sexual-assault evidence in Wisconsin but that turned into a partisan fight appears doomed in the Legislature.
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February 20, 2020
11:22 am
A group monitoring a legal settlement over the Milwaukee Police Department's stop-and-frisk practices reports officers failed to document a justification in 80% of such incidents in the first half of 2019.
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February 20, 2020
11:17 am
Assembly Republicans prepared Thursday to embark on another futile attempt to override another of Gov. Tony Evers' budget vetoes.
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February 20, 2020
10:58 am
The public would have access to most police body-camera video under a bipartisan bill passed Wednesday by the state Senate.
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February 20, 2020
10:47 am
Gov. Tony Evers has pardoned 17 more people, his office announced Wednesday.
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February 20, 2020
10:41 am
The Wisconsin Senate voted along party lines Thursday to pass a Republican plan to reduce income taxes by $250 million, setting up a vote later in the day in the Assembly to send the plan to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
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February 20, 2020
9:34 am
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Assembly was poised Thursday to approve a bill that would raise the smoking age in Wisconsin. Right now a person must be at least 18 to buy cigarettes, tobacco products and nicotine products. The ...
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February 19, 2020
4:33 pm
Support broke down Wednesday for a Republican proposal that would strip the state agriculture department of its authority to regulate factory-farm siting decisions and expansions and hand oversight to agricultural groups.
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February 19, 2020
4:26 pm
Legislation to extend bar hours in Wisconsin until 4 a.m. for the week of the Democratic National Convention appears unlikely to move forward, after a Republican leader said on Wednesday that concerns about drunken drivers on the road have dampened enthusiasm.
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February 19, 2020
4:16 pm
The Wisconsin Senate signed off Wednesday on a new contract for the Wisconsin State Patrol, taking a critical step toward raising troopers' salaries by 9.9% retroactively.
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