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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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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A drunken driver who fled from a fatal crash in Milwaukee has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

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The Wisconsin Law Foundation has selected Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown attorney Kristen Nelson as a 2019 fellow.

Gov. Tony Evers will kill a contentious plan to punish students who disrupt free speech on University of Wisconsin System campuses, his spokeswoman said Friday as system regents took another step toward implementing the policy.

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Federal prosecutors say a Wisconsin gas station operator used the Libyan embassy's bank account to pay taxes and bills.

A court-appointed observer says conditions at Wisconsin's troubled youth prison are improving.

An ex-employee of a suburban Chicago manufacturing company convicted of stealing trade secrets for a new job in China has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison.

The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a resolution supporting new F-35 fighter jets in Madison despite concerns about noise.

A bill that would allow children to legally run lemonade stands in Wisconsin is on its way to Gov. Tony Evers.

Wisconsin legislators have passed a bill that would extend health insurance to the immediate survivors of police officers and emergency medical workers who are killed in the line of duty.

Burnett County is seeking applications for its next district attorney. Gov. Tony Evers announced the vacancy Thursday.

The Wisconsin Assembly is likely to vote later this year on overriding budget vetoes made by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.

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A former Wausau doctor will spend three months in federal prison for prescription fraud. A judge sentenced 60-year-old Thomas Strick on Wednesday for obtaining fentanyl by use of misrepresentation and fraud.

The Lincoln County sheriff's deputy who shot a suspect near Merrill in August has returned to duty.

Felony charges have been dropped in Nevada against a former Republican political consultant who was accused of imprisoning and battering his girlfriend.

A judge in La Crosse County has refused to reduce bond for a man accused of shooting a police officer.

A Milwaukee man who spent more than six years in prison for a dismissed attempted-homicide charge won't receive monetary compensation for his time. The State of Wisconsin Claims Board denied Michael Winston's $275,000 claim on Tuesday.

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A paralyzed Wisconsin lawmaker would be allowed to call into committee meetings he can't attend in person under rule changes Republicans released on Tuesday to meet demands the Democrat made nearly a year ago.

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Authorities say a drug raid at a hotel near Appleton could be the largest methamphetamine bust ever in northeastern Wisconsin.

Milwaukee County Chief Judge Maxine White celebrated diversity in the court during her State of the Court address at the Wisconsin Club on Tuesday afternoon.

The state Senate has approved a bill that would force the state, municipalities and universities to continue paying health-insurance premiums for the immediate survivors of police officers and emergency medical workers who are killed in the line of duty.

Wisconsin's hemp industry would remain under state control as it enters its second year under a bill the state Senate approved on Tuesday.

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Children in Wisconsin could legally operate lemonade stands under a bill the state Senate has passed.

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