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The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded more than $550,000 in grants to address school violence in Wisconsin. The DOJ announced the awards this week.

Authorities in eastern Wisconsin say they know who killed an 18-year-old woman in 1984.

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Prosecutors in western Wisconsin are trying to prove a woman accused of fatally stabbing her ex- boyfriend staged a phony crime scene in an attempt to claim self-defense.

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The trial for a man accused of plotting a mass shooting in defense of Islam at a Masonic temple in downtown Milwaukee has been delayed.

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Voters are more than twice as confident in the U.S. Supreme Court than the other branches of government, according to Marquette Law School poll results announced Monday.

A Milwaukee lawyer will lose her license for six months as a result of nearly a dozen misconduct charges.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended the licenses of two out-of-state lawyers Tuesday. The punishments were reciprocal discipline for violations in the lawyers' home states.

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The National Guard is investigating allegations that Wisconsin commanders are trying to force a sergeant out of the service after he complained about sexual misconduct in his unit.

The Republican leader of the Wisconsin state Senate said Tuesday he plans to convene and then immediately adjourn a special session Gov. Tony Evers called on a pair of gun-control proposals, without debating or voting on them.

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Wisconsin's Josh Kaul has joined a coalition of attorneys general investigating Facebook over antitrust issues.

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Nearly two-thirds of respondents to a new poll say U.S. Supreme Court justices base their decisions on the law rather than politics.

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Hundreds of people were expected to attend a memorial service Tuesday for the Wisconsin native Rachelle Bergeron, a prosecutor who was shot and killed last week in the Pacific nation of Micronesia after returning home from a run.

A Wisconsin school district is rehiring a black security guard after he was fired last week for repeating a racial slur while telling a student not to use it, a union official said Monday.

Republicans tried to persuade the state Supreme Court on Monday to dismiss a union lawsuit challenging their contentious lame-duck laws, insisting during oral arguments that the laws don't violate the separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches.

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The Wisconsin Judicial Council received its second open-records request of the year at its monthly meeting on Friday.

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Gov. Tony Evers on Monday called the Legislature into a special session next month to take up a pair of gun-control proposals that Republican leaders have been unwilling to debate, accusing them of telling those who support the legislatin to "go to hell."

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A Chicago attorney and a Maine attorney will learn if they'll lose their Wisconsin licenses on Tuesday.

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An Appleton woman could spend up to 25 years in prison for stealing $1.3 million from her former employer and using it to go on luxury vacations and cruises.

Eight Wisconsin tribes will receive more than $8 million from the U.S. Department of Justice for public safety and supporting victims of crime.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice would have to test sexual-assault kits within 90 days of collecting them under a new state assembly bill. The Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety met Thursday for an executive session and a public hearing on the proposal.

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Wisconsin lawmakers and animal-rights activists spoke out in support of a bill to make bestiality a felony. Speakers at the public hearing on Thursday cited possible reasons why people might engage such behavior, blaming a cultural phenomenon and the occult.

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Gov. Tony Evers is setting May 12 as the date of a special election for northern Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District to replace former Republican Rep. Sean Duffy . The primary will be Feb. 18.

Newly released records show that juveniles at a Wisconsin prison stole a set of prison keys, shattered windows and threw punches at one another during a disturbance this summer.

A Milwaukee criminal defense attorney is allowed to still practice law while he undergoes his own court proceedings for abusing, threatening and stalking a woman.

Gov. Tony Evers has signed a bill that extends health insurance to the immediate survivors of police officers and emergency medical workers who were killed in the line of duty.

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A black security guard at a Wisconsin high school says he was fired after a student used a racial slur against him and he repeated the word when he told the teen not to use it.

Authorities have made a fifth arrest in connection with a black-market THC-vape-manufacturing business in Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear a case brought by a conservative law firm seeking to dramatically scale back the ability of governors to change the intent of legislators through partial budget vetoes.

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A former lawyer at Husch Blackwell's Milwaukee office is faced with a public reprimand for misleading her employers and clients about her inactive law license.

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