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Authorities say a man beat to death an infant who was in the arms of a mother who was the intended target of the blows.

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Vincent Bobot — a former police officer, assistant city attorney, municipal judge and most recently a private attorney — will announce his candidacy for Milwaukee City attorney on Wednesday.

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A judge has ruled in favor of Racine's plans to divert millions of gallons of water from Lake Michigan for Foxconn Technology Group.

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A federal judge has sentenced a Wisconsin man for threatening to shoot a member of the Alabama National Guard.

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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to federal regulation of gun silencers Monday, just days after a gunman used one in a shooting rampage that killed 12 people in Virginia.

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Wausau police are recommending second-degree reckless homicide charges in a fatal shooting.

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Wisconsin is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the state's ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

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A Milwaukee man has been sentenced to 70 years in prison for fatally shooting two teens.

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A Wisconsin city is considering an ordinance that would impose fines on the parents of young bullies after a viral social media post showed handwritten notes that students sent to a middle school girl urging her to kill herself.

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A Republican state lawmaker says Gov. Tony Evers' order to fly over the Wisconsin state Capitol for the first time a rainbow flag representing gay pride is divisive.

A Wisconsin jury has returned a $15 million civil verdict for the family of a woman struck and killed while riding her bicycle to work.

The police say a mother and her adult son found dead in their Sauk City home died of natural causes.

The Legislature's budget-writing committee has voted to scale back the number of new crime-lab analysts Gov. Tony Evers wanted to give the state Department of Justice in the state budget.

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Binding arbitration remains on the rise.

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Here’s the latest on what’s pending before various committees in the Wisconsin legislature. Among the proposals of interest are ones calling for changes to the state’s service requirements for civil cases, the addition of judge positions to several counties and changes to the rules governing unpaid wage claims.

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An opioid manufacturer has agreed to pay $225 million to resolve federal investigations into allegations that it paid kickbacks and used other illegal marketing tactics to sell a powerful fentanyl spray, authorities said Wednesday.

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Although tort filings in Wisconsin continue to become less and less common, 2018 saw a slight increase over the number filed in 2017.

Milwaukee police say they've made an arrest in the death of a 2-month-old baby.

An Ohio doctor was charged with murder Wednesday in the deaths of 25 hospital patients who, authorities say, were killed with deliberate overdoses of painkillers, many of them administered by other medical workers on his orders.

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Altough prosecutors around the country are making daily decisions affecting people's liberty, few are compiling data that would show how criminal cases are resolved and whether those outcomes are harsher for minorities.

Gov. Tony Evers has appointed Matthew Allen to serve as the Iowa County District Attorney.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Senate has passed a bipartisan proposal designed to make it easier for patients to get needed prescription drugs even when insurance companies force them to try less-expensive alternatives first. The Senate approved the measure ...

The Wisconsin Appeals Court says public records provided electronically contain more information than paper copies.

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The Wisconsin Legislature's Republican-controlled budget committee voted Tuesday to stand by its decision to reject Gov. Tony Evers' plan to accept federal money for Medicaid, turning down more than $1 billion from the federal government and $324 million wort of state savings.

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Wisconsin's Republican-controlled Legislature was poised Wednesday to send four anti-abortion bills to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who has vowed to veto all of them.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a man sentenced to life in prison for a 1998 murder that had been cold for more than a decade.

Authorities say a standoff involving a van on an Interstate 94 overpass resulted in two officer-involved shootings in Waukesha County.

Word of the arrest — by a friend's text message — hit Wayne Sankey like a thunderbolt.

A panel of judges has extended a block on Democrats’ attempts to force Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to testify in a federal lawsuit challenging Republican-drawn legislative maps.

The Legal Services Corp. will receive $15 million to fund legal aid in the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2019 passed Monday by the U.S. House of Representatives.

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