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A group of Minnesota seniors is joining their counterparts in at least four other states by legally challenging their state's absentee voting rules amid the coronavirus outbreak.

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Gov. Tony Evers' administration overstepped its authority when it extended the governor's stay-at-home order through the end of May, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has held two weeks of arguments by telephone because of the coronavirus pandemic, hearing cases about President Donald Trump’s tax records, contraceptive care mandates and religious education disputes, with audio available live to audiences ...

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Gina Colletti has been sworn in as the Eastern District of Wisconsin's new clerk of court.

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As Wisconsin awaits a decision in the Legislature's lawsuit over Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home order, another challenge to the extended order is proceeding.

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The owner of a Christian-based children's hair salon has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Gov. Tony Evers' "safer at home" order that closed nonessential businesses is a violation of free speech and religious rights.

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About 48% of voters cast ballots absentee in northern Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District election, far below the statewide rate in last month’s statewide election.

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Tom Tiffany, a state senator endorsed by President Donald Trump, easily won a special congressional election on Tuesday in a heavily conservative, rural Wisconsin district, cheering Republicans even as Democrats argued ...

A majority of Wisconsin residents still support the “safer at home” order issued by Gov. Tony Evers in response to the coronavirus pandemic, but that support is down from where it was six weeks ago, according to a Marquette University Law School poll released Tuesday.

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LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — A deadly altercation in the parking lot of a Menards store in La Crosse has resulted in reckless homicide charges. Matthew Kinstler, 50, is being held in the death of 79-year-old Russell Paulson. Kinstler was ...

Attorney General Josh Kaul has restored the state Department of Natural Resources' power to consider, when granting permits, whether high-capacity wells might drain area water bodies.

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Former Wisconsin Elections Commission administrator Michael Haas has been named as Madison's new city attorney.

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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A special Congressional election in a rural Wisconsin district President Donald Trump carried by 20 points is pitting a Trump-aligned state senator against a school board president hoping to become the ...

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Prosecutors on Monday have decided to clear an Oshkosh school liaison officer of any wrongdoing for shooting a student during a fight last year.

The Association of Corporate Counsel's Wisconsin chapter has been awarded a grant to offer more services through a mobile legal clinic serving Milwaukee and other cities.

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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers on Monday allowed nearly all nonessential businesses to reopen as long as they serve no more than five customers at a time, partially lifting the restriction that has ...

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U.S. Air Force investigators have rejected a Wisconsin National Guard sergeant's allegations that his commanders retaliated against him and tried to force him out of the service after he complained about sexual assaults in his unit.

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A recently published white paper from Husch Blackwell's private-wealth team offers estate-planning guidance amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Wisconsin's Joint Committee on Finance is considering a request to add 20 new positions to manage the state's CCAP services.

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Authorities in northwestern Wisconsin have arrested a 62-year-old man in a fatal shooting of another man.

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections plans to test all inmates and staff at two Milwaukee correctional centers for COVID-19 next week.

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Although all eyes are on Republican legislators' attempt to derail Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home order in the state Supreme Court, two Waukesha County residents have quietly mounted their own challenge alleging the mandate violates their constitutional rights to worship, protest and travel.

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A western Wisconsin attorney with a lengthy disciplinary history could lose his law license for good for his latest dozen counts of misconduct.

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The Wisconsin Department of Corrections says it's released nearly 1,600 inmates since March to help reduce the possibility of spreading the coronavirus.

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The Waukesha County courthouse is increasing hearings and in-person services next week.

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The Justice Department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning a prosecution that became a rallying cry for the president and his supporters in attacking the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation.

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The state of Missouri plans to seek the death penalty against a man charged with killing two brothers from Wisconsin, according to the man's new attorney.

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Republicans in more rural parts of Wisconsin joined with business owners to push for a regional reopening plan Thursday to give the economy a boost, as the Department of Workforce Development warned that the state fund that pays unemployment claims could run out of money in five months.

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Applicants are wanted for a Menominee-Shawano County judgeship. The application is open for a seat on Menominee-Shawano County Circuit Court Branch 1.

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Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre is repaying $1.1 million in welfare money that he received for multiple speeches where he did not show up, the Mississippi state auditor said Wednesday.

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