GOP won’t let Kaul settle lawsuit under lame duck laws
epublicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature's finance committee stopped short of allowing Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul to settle an unknown lawsuit after he asked them to sign confidentiality agreements Tuesday in a messy first test of their lame duck law limiting the attorney general's powers.
Applicants wanted for Washburn County district attorney
Gov. Tony Evers is seeking applications for a Washburn County district attorney.
DOJ: 11 cases worth millions in limbo due to lame-duck law
Nearly a dozen lawsuits that could net the state millions of dollars are in limbo thanks to a dispute between Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul and Republicans who passed a lame-duck law giving them final say over settlements.
Authorities: Teen was fatally shot in Fitchburg
The Dane County Medical Examiner's Office has identified the victim of a homicide as a 17-year-old boy.
Oklahoma judge rules against drugmaker, orders $572M payment
An Oklahoma judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state's opioid drug crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million to help abate the problem in the coming years.
Kaul: Don’t launch your own predator stings
Attorney General Josh Kaul is warning that a resurgence of online vigilantes posing as children to trap and embarrass sexual predators is hampering police efforts.
Rep. Sean Duffy of Wisconsin resigning from Congress
U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy, who represents northern Wisconsin in Congress, is resigning next month.
Indicted Chicago alderman withdraws as law firm partner
Records show a longtime Chicago alderman facing corruption charges is no longer a partner at a law firm that’s central to a federal criminal case against him.
Madison police not ruling out threat to public after killing
Madison police investigating the city's first homicide of the year say they cannot discount a continued threat to the public.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Kelly gets ticket for accident
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly has been ticketed for failing to stop at a stop sign after the car he was driving slammed into a van, sending two people to the hospital.
Wisconsin’s next for man behind Minnesota’s hands-free law
A man who pushed for Minnesota's hands-free driving law says he wants to take his fight to Wisconsin.
The Bois Forte consider a wellness court
The Bois Forte Band of Chippewa needed a larger courthouse.
Legal News
- State Bar leaders remain deeply divided over special purpose trust
- Former Wisconsin college chancellor fired over porn career is fighting to keep his faculty post
- Pecker says he pledged to be Trump campaign’s ‘eyes and ears’ during 2016 race
- A conservative quest to limit diversity programs gains momentum in states
- Wisconsin prison inmate pleads not guilty to killing cellmate
- Waukesha man sentenced to 30 years for Sex Trafficking
- 12-year-old shot in Milwaukee Wednesday with ‘serious injuries’
- Milwaukee man convicted of laundering proceeds of business email compromise fraud schemes
- Giuliani, Meadows among 18 indicted in Arizona fake electors case
- Some State Bar diversity participants walk away from program
- Wisconsin court issues arrest warrant ‘in error’ for Minocqua Brewing owner
- Iranian nationals charged cyber campaign targeting U.S. Companies
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