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The ousted Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel says in his first post-election interview that his defeat to the Democrat Josh Kaul was "kind of a death by a thousand cuts."

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The Legal Association for Women is holding an event to benefit a Madison nonprofit organization that helps victims of domestic abuse.

Two people have been charged in the torture of a 15-year-old Wisconsin girl who was burned, beaten and forced to stay in an empty room for months.

A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for selling heroin that led to three overdoses, including one death, in the Fargo-Moorhead area.

A Milwaukee police officer fired over social-media posts he made mocking the stun-gun arrest of an NBA basketball player lost his appeal to get his job back.

A former Democratic state Assembly candidate has been sentenced to a year's worth of probation after pleading guilty to faking signatures on her nomination papers.

The Senate passed a sweeping criminal-justice bill Tuesday that comes in response to concerns that the war on drugs had led to the imprisonment of too many Americans for non-violent crimes without adequately preparing them for their return to society.

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Gov.-elect Tony Evers named four Milwaukee-area leaders to his Cabinet on Wednesday, including a former campaign manager to Mayor Tom Barrett and a 30-year veteran of the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department.

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The District of Columbia sued Facebook on Wednesday for allowing data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica to improperly access data from as many as 87 million users.

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The Senate is preparing to vote on Wednesday on a short-term proposal to fund the government through Feb. 8, a step that eases the risk of a shutdown and comes only after President Donald Trump backed off his demand for money for a border wall.

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After a barn collapsed in rural Dane County, should a subrogation waiver in the construction contract used for the structure prevent an insurance company from recovering money it had to pay out because of the disaster?

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The federal guarantee of health-insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions is too politically popular to be eliminated, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson said on Tuesday.

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A judge has ruled that a northeastern Wisconsin city's ordinance barring discrimination for gender identity violates the religious freedom of local churches.

A Minnesota lawyer faces discipline in Wisconsin over misconduct he committed in his home state.

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An internet troll who harassed a black college student with racist messages on social media has agreed to a court settlement requiring him to get "anti-hate training," apologize in writing and on video and publicly renounce white supremacy.

An Appleton man convicted of trafficking women through brutal means has been sentenced to 60 years in prison.

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A 1974 New York state ban on nunchucks that was put into place over fears that youth inspired by martial arts movies would create widespread mayhem is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, a federal court has ruled.

A Wisconsin man with 16 drunken driving convictions in three states is headed to prison.

A Milwaukee man accused of torturing and killing a 15-year-old boy over a stolen video game system has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole.

A man who served as a choir director for the La Crosse School District has admitted to sexually assaulting students.

A former detective is suing the filmmakers who produced the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" alleging the documentary defamed him.

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The fight over restricting early voting in Wisconsin is headed back to federal court.

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A Missouri poacher has been ordered to repeatedly watch the movie "Bambi" as part of his sentence in a scheme to illegally kill hundreds of deer.

A La Crosse attorney is challenging a referee’s recommendation that his law license be suspended for six months and he pass an exam before being reinstated.

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Prosecutors have charged a former Democratic state Assembly candidate with a felony for allegedly forging signatures on her nomination papers.

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A federal judge's ruling that the Obama health law is unconstitutional has landed like a stink bomb among Republicans, who've seen the politics of health care flip as Americans increasingly value the overhaul's core parts, including protections for pre-existing medical conditions and Medicaid for more low-income people.

Johnson & Johnson on Friday forcefully denied a media report that it knew for decades about the existence of trace amounts of asbestos in its baby powder.

A federal jury has awarded $6.5 million to a man who was severely injured when an Independence police officer shot him with a Taser.

His voice nearly gone following all-night negotiations, Robin Vos stood on the floor of the Wisconsin Assembly just after sunrise and calmly made the case for legislation aimed at taking power from the incoming Democratic governor.