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Oct 15, 2019

Survey: Quarter of women at UW-Madison sexually assaulted

More than a quarter of University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate women who responded to a new survey say they've been sexually assaulted.

Oct 15, 2019

GOP starts push to curb governor’s veto powers

Wisconsin Republicans continued their push on Tuesday to weaken Gov. Tony Evers' powers, holding a hearing on a constitutional amendment prohibiting him from using his veto pen to increase spending.

Oct 15, 2019

Wisconsin native, prosecutor slain in Micronesia

Friends said Tuesday that the lawyer and Wisconsin native Rachelle Bergeron had planned to soon return to the U.S. after a difficult stint prosecuting criminals in the Pacific country of Micronesia, but she was shot and killed as she returned home from a run with her dog.

Oct 15, 2019

Waitress refuses to serve couple over transgender comments

A Fond du Lac woman says she was fired from a restaurant for refusing to serve a couple who were making disparaging comments about a transgender woman sitting at the bar.

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Oct 15, 2019

Steven Avery files promised appeal

The attorney representing Steven Avery, whose criminal case was featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer," is seeking a new trial or evidentiary hearing.

Oct 15, 2019

Texas man suspected of killing Wisconsin girlfriend, infant daughter

A man who told authorities that God told him to kill his girlfriend from Wisconsin and their infant daughter has been arrested in West Texas on two counts of capital murder.

Oct 14, 2019

Man faces life in prison for walking from Indiana to Fox Valley to have sex with 14-year-old

A former Oshkosh resident is faced with a lifetime prison sentence for walking from Indiana to Wisconsin to meet someone he thought was a teenage girl for sex.

Oct 14, 2019

Wausau school board president running for Congress

A justice on the Ho-Chuck Nation Supreme Court and the Democratic president of the Wausau School Board announced Monday that she is running for Congress in her heavily Republican northern Wisconsin district, in a race that could provide an early signal of voter moods ahead of next fall's presidential election.

Oct 14, 2019

Supreme Court hears arguments over OWI fine for drunken driver with baby in car

The Marquette County Courthouse sounded like a math classroom during oral arguments in a Wisconsin Supreme Court case on Monday. The justices asked two attorneys appearing before them how they’d calculate fines in a felony OWI case involving a baby in a car and a blood alcohol concentration more than four times the legal limit.

Oct 14, 2019

Ahead of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, free estate-planning clinics offer help

Sitting around tables in the Southeastern Oneida Tribal Service Office in Milwaukee over the weekend, small groups of Marquette Law School students, attorneys and tribal members were talking about death. Yet what sounded like somber discussion provided relief for many, as they were completing estate planning documents.

Oct 14, 2019

Jayme Closs: 1 year after abduction, ‘I’m feeling stronger’ (UPDATE)

The Wisconsin girl whose parents were fatally shot before she was kidnapped and held captive for 88 days before escaping from her abductor said she's feeling stronger every day and is thankful for the kindness and concern expressed to her from people all over the country in the year after the crime.

Oct 14, 2019

Report details violent weekend at juvenile prison

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has released details about a violent weekend at the state's juvenile prison in northern Wisconsin that left one guard with a broken nose.

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