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Jan 20, 2020

Complaint: 22-year-old neo-Nazi vandalized Racine synagogue

A complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of Wisconsin accuses a 22-year-old neo-Nazi of vandalizing a Racine synagogue in September. On Friday, federal prosecutors charged Yousef Barasneh of Oak Creek for the crime.

Jan 20, 2020

Police: Man fatally shot in Madison apparently targeted

The man who was fatally shot at a Madison apartment over the weekend was apparently targeted by the person who killed him, according to investigators.

Jan 20, 2020

AP visits immigration courts across US, finds nonstop chaos

In a locked, guarded courtroom in a compound surrounded by razor wire, Immigration Judge Jerome Rothschild waits — and stalls.

Jan 20, 2020

State voting, registration laws vary and change frequently

The rules of elections are always changing.

Jan 17, 2020

Man sentenced for buying ‘new school shooter’ gun for boy

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge sentenced an Oshkosh man to a month behind bars for buying a rifle for a boy who boasted online that the weapon was a “new school shooter gun.” U.S. District Judge William C. Griesbach sentenced 19-year-old Hunter Nicholson on Wednesday in Green Bay […]

Jan 17, 2020

Student shot during attack on school officer to face trial

A Wisconsin teenager who was shot and wounded when he stabbed a school resource officer has been ordered to stand trial.

Jan 17, 2020

Lawyers: Immigration court system is ‘red tape gone crazy’

Tucked in a windowless room of Chicago's immigration court, one of the nation's largest legal-advocacy groups for immigrants runs a free help desk.

Jan 16, 2020

WILL president ‘a bit angry’ about cartoon depicting him as executioner

Rick Esenberg, president and general counsel of the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, said he was initially "a bit angry" after seeing a political cartoon depicting him as an executioner with several nooses. The Cap Times, a Madison newspaper, published the cartoon this week in response to WILL's lawsuit against the Wisconsin Elections Committee.

Jan 16, 2020

Judge Maxine White appointed to Court of Appeals

Judge Maxine White has been appointed to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District 1. She’s the first woman of color to serve on the Wisconsin appellate court. White is the chief judge of the First Judicial District and is responsible for the administrative, fiscal and personnel oversight of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court. She’s been […]

Jan 16, 2020

TMJ centers settle false claims case for $1M

A company doing business as TMJ & Orofacial Pain Treatment Centers of Wisconsin will pay $1 million to resolve allegations that the centers submitted false claims to Medicare and TRICARE, a health-care provider for service members and their families.

Jan 16, 2020

37 charged in Puerto Rico to Wisconsin drug-smuggling case (UPDATE)

Twenty-six people are accused in a large-scale drug operation that sent hundreds of pounds of cocaine from Puerto Rico to Wisconsin, according to a federal complaint.

Jan 15, 2020

Former Doyle chief legal counsel faced with 2nd license suspension

An attorney who used to work as Gov. Jim Doyle's chief legal counsel and deputy chief of staff is faced with a second suspension of his law license. The Office of Lawyer Regulation filed a complaint against Stanley Davis of The Davis Group, alleging he had taken clients' money without doing the work he promised.

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