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Wisconsin could save more than $1.6 billion over the next two years by expanding Medicaid to cover nearly 91,000 additional low-income people, a move Republicans continue to block.

Tagged with: coronavirus Jon Erpenbach Legislative Fiscal Bureau

A judge on Thursday granted prosecutors' request to add a third-degree murder charge against the former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death.

Tagged with: Derek Chauvin George Floyd

Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul worked Wednesday to persuade Republican lawmakers to let him spend nearly $925,000 to upgrade crime lab technology designed to detect synthetic drugs and add analysts.

Tagged with: Gov. Tony Evers Howard Marklein Josh Kaul

A Wisconsin Supreme Court majority has ruled that appellate courts are under no obligation to explain their reasoning for discretionary denials petitions for interlocutory appeal.

Tagged with: Court of Appeals Discovery Wisconsin Supreme Court

A lawsuit filed on Wednesday alleges that the Republican leaders of the Wisconsin Legislature illegally hired private taxpayer-funded attorneys to represent them in anticipation of lawsuits over redistricting.

Tagged with: Devin LeMahieu Robin Vos

Prosecutors asked a judge Wednesday for time to file written arguments on whether a Wisconsin woman convicted of stabbing a middle-school classmate seven years ago to please the internet horror character Slender Man deserves to be released from a mental-health center.

Tagged with: Anissa Weier Morgan Geyser Payton Leutner Slenderman Waukesha

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee plans to hold three in-person public hearings on Gov. Tony Evers’ $91 billion state budget proposal, with one virtual hearing for the first time due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. ...

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Republican Wisconsin lawmakers called Tuesday for Green Bay's Democratic mayor to resign following a report on a conservative website alleging he ceded authority for running the election to a paid consultant with ties to Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Tagged with: Eric Genrich Green Bay

A Madison doctor has agreed to pay $110,000 to settle allegations that he wrote unnecessary opioid prescriptions.

Tagged with: opioids

Paul Czisny is the newest Fond du Lac County circuit court judge.

Tagged with: Fond du Lac Gov. Tony Evers Paul Czisny

The trial for an 18-year-old from Illinois accused of killing two people and wounding a third during a protest against police brutality in Wisconsin was pushed back Wednesday by seven months and could be delayed even longer.

Tagged with: Jacob Blake Kyle Rittenhouse

Less than 10% of the top-fifth of earners at Milwaukee law firms are women, according to a new study from Marquette University.

Tagged with: Marquette University

A man who pleaded no contest to fatally stabbing a retired police captain in Oshkosh has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended a Fox Valley attorney's law license for 90 days after finding him guilty of keeping a payment meant for an investigator and not cooperating with the Office of Lawyer Regulation.

Tagged with: Mark Ditter office of lawyer regulation OLR

University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank apologized after it was reported that she suggested to other Big Ten leaders that their emails related to the COVID-19 pandemic be moved to a private portal.

Tagged with: coronavirus Rebecca Blank University of Wisconsin-Madison

A Dane County strip club has decided to voluntarily shut down after shots were fired outside the business three times within a week and the Bristol town board threatened to pull its licenses.

A Wisconsin court has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Foxconn Technology Group violated terms of its contract by failing to build a manufacturing plant in southeast Wisconsin.

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A Prairie du Chien attorney is firing back at the Office of Lawyer Regulation, arguing the office took his responses to its questions out of context in order to charge him with misconduct.

Tagged with: Daniel Key office of lawyer regulation OLR

Fifty people are suing a Wisconsin city over the way it handled protests last fall after authorities announced that a police officer would face no charges for the fatal shooting of a Black teenager.

Tagged with: Alvin Cole Joseph Mensah Wauwatosa

Authorities say a woman who got kicked out of a Mount Pleasant bar drove her car into a crowd and seriously injured a pedestrian.

A highly contagious coronavirus variant is becoming more prevalent in Wisconsin but vaccine shots should be available to everyone by mid-summer, pushing the state closer to the end of the pandemic, health officials said Thursday.

Tagged with: coronavirus Joe Biden

As the trial approaches for a white Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd, prosecutors are putting the time Derek Chauvin's knee was on the Black man's neck at about nine minutes.

Tagged with: Derek Chauvin George Floyd

One of the teens convicted of stabbing a classmate to please the fictional internet horror character Slender Man is expected to ask for release from a Wisconsin mental health facility.

Tagged with: Anissa Weier Payton Leutner Slenderman Waukesha County Circuit Court

The Wisconsin Supreme Court approved changes to emeritus membership status at the State Bar of Wisconsin and re-established a rule to allow more supervised practice time for law students.

Tagged with: State Bar of Wisconsin Wisconsin State Bar Wisconsin Supreme Court

Patent attorney Kevin Rizzuto is one of the newest partners at Quarles & Brady's Milwaukee office.

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The trial of a Mequon attorney charged for spitting in the face of a Black teenager and kneeing an officer in the groin will remain in Milwaukee County.

Tagged with: Stephanie Rapkin

The Milwaukee-based law firm Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown has launched a new legal podcast.

The candidates for Wisconsin superintendent of schools clashed Thursday over reopening schools for in-person teaching, Act 10 and teacher unions and private-school vouchers.

A judge has rejected a request to withdraw no contest pleas by a man convicted of causing a western Wisconsin crash that killed three Girl Scouts and a mother in 2018.

Dozens of people ignoring coronavirus protocols filled a state Capitol room for a hearing on legislation to limit the government's response to public health emergencies.

Tagged with: Capitol coronavirus