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A Michigan woman who ripped off dozens of couples seeking to adopt children while spending their money on luxury handbags, jewelry and house work was sentenced Wednesday to more than 10 years in prison, although a judge said a life term would be more appropriate.

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A congressman is asking the Department of Justice to investigate settlements to two men who say they were victims of clergy abuse at a Catholic school in Mississippi.

An LGBT advocacy group and the United Auto Workers Southeast Wisconsin are endorsing Brett Blomme in the race for Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge.

Wisconsin election officials plan to debate Thursday how to spend a new $7.8 million grant for election security, the second major influx of federal dollars to help local clerks fend off hackers in two years.

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The Wisconsin Department of Justice must expunge arrest records of people who aren't charged from its criminal database, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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Twenty-four people associated with a violent drug-trafficking gang operating in a northeast Milwaukee neighborhood are faced with federal charges, authorities said Wednesday.

Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a Republican-authored $250 million income tax bill on Wednesday at an elementary school in Wauwatosa, arguing that the Legislature should instead back his plan to spend more on education.

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The office that investigates sexual harassment complaints against Wisconsin lawmakers would report its findings directly to legislative leaders, not to nonpartisan clerks of the state Senate and Assembly, in a change that a bipartisan legislative committee was asked to approve Tuesday.

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced Tuesday that he has joined nearly 40 other state attorneys general in an investigation into whether the electronic-cigarette giant Juul Labs Inc.'s advertising is intended mainly for underage youth.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court justices agreed on Tuesday on the outcome of a convicted murderer's appeal to the high court, but they disagreed on the way their decision was reached.

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Members of the Wisconsin Judicial Council are asking Gov. Tony Evers to save the independent body from elimination. The council's chair sent Evers a letter on Tuesday requesting a veto to an amendment recently tacked on to a pay-parity bill for state public defenders.

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A western Wisconsin school superintendent accused of sex crimes was released from custody Monday under orders that he remain under house arrest.

The law license of a prominent attorney at Milwaukee firm Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown has been suspended for 60 days because of misconduct in two divorce cases.

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A U.S. appeals court on Monday upheld Trump administration changes that include additional hurdles for those seeking abortions through a federal program that helps low-income women.

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Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday of rape and sexual assault against two women and was immediately led off to jail in handcuffs, sealing his dizzying fall from powerful Hollywood studio boss to archvillain of the #MeToo movement.

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The longtime Republican state lawmaker Luther Olsen, a moderate in the Republican majority who survived a 2011 recall attempt and served as head of the Senate's Education Committee, announced Monday that he will not seek re-election.

The Wisconsin Judicial Council could be eliminated under an amendment introduced to a bill to restore pay parity to Wisconsin State Public Defenders.

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A bill to restore pay parity for Wisconsin State Public Defenders is moving forward in the legislature but now with an attached amendment that would eliminate the state's judicial council.

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Sandie Giernoth is the newest Washington County Circuit Court judge. Gov. Tony Evers announced her appointment to the bench on Friday.

The Wisconsin AFL-CIO labor union is endorsing Judge Jill Karofsky in the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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By TODD RICHMOND and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Legislature on Thursday sent a plan to reduce income taxes by $250 million to Gov. Tony Evers, who appears likely to veto it. The Senate and ...

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The state Assembly walked back a bill Thursday that would have allowed bars throughout Wisconsin to stay open later during the Democratic National Convention this summer, tweaking the proposal to allow extended hours only for taverns in the southeastern corner of the state before passing it on to the Senate.

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The daughter of a Wisconsin state lawmaker was sentenced Thursday to 13 years in prison for providing drugs that killed a pregnant woman.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — No one under 21 would be allowed to purchase cigarettes or vaping products under a bill the state Assembly approved Thursday. A person must now be at least 18 to purchase cigarettes, tobacco, nicotine or vaping ...

A school superintendent in western Wisconsin was arrested Thursday on federal charges of the sex trafficking of a minor and production of child pornography.

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A nurse convicted of injuring nine infants at a Wisconsin hospital has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.

A $100,000 settlement was reached in a car-crash case in Dane County on Jan. 28, 2019.

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A Milwaukee lawyer sentenced for stealing more than $301,000 from his clients will lose his law license for four-and-a-half years.

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A proposal that began as a bipartisan effort to prevent future delays in the testing of kits for sexual-assault evidence in Wisconsin but that turned into a partisan fight appears doomed in the Legislature.

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A group monitoring a legal settlement over the Milwaukee Police Department's stop-and-frisk practices reports officers failed to document a justification in 80% of such incidents in the first half of 2019.

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