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A jury found a former federal agent not guilty of sexually assaulting two women but guilty of assaulting a third.

An attorney at Habush Habush & Rottier has obtained a $38.1 million verdict against Hyundai Motor Co. in a Racine County personal injury case.

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A Milwaukee luxury car broker must pay $5.4 million in restitution for a tax fraud conspiracy involving stealing foreign clients' money.

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The Wisconsin Claims Board on Friday awarded $25,000 to a U.S. Navy veteran who spent 26 years behind bars for a homicide he didn't commit.

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Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature released a plan for a nearly $250 million income tax cut on Friday, a proposal they plan to vote on next week and quickly send to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.

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The city of Sheboygan properly annexed land for a Kohler Co. golf course in 2017, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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The Office of Lawyer Regulation is accusing a Fox Valley lawyer of keeping an entire payment from the State Public Defender's Office for himself, rather than splitting it with an investigator as he was supposed to.

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American Bar Association president Judy Perry Martinez called for preserving the integrity of the justice system one day after the Justice Department announced it would seek a lower sentence for Roger Stone, a former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump. Martinez’s ...

Husch Blackwell added two new attorneys to its banking and finance practice in Wisconsin. Jessica Zeratsky and Lauren Capitini recently joined the firm's Financial Services & Capital Markets group.

The Illinois personal-injury attorney Elizabeth Olszewski died in a car crash in Racine County on Feb. 9. The Union Grove native practiced at Salvi, Schostok & Prichard in Waukegan, Ill.

Authorities say the driver of a pickup truck that crashed head-on into a school bus in Dane County has been arrested for repeatedly driving drunk.

The widow of a slain Chicago Police Department commander filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a website used to sell a gun tied to her husband's death.

A Michigan woman who broke the hearts and emptied the wallets of couples anxious to adopt babies was sentenced to 21 months in prison Wednesday after acknowledging that she faked her own pregnancy and committed other acts of deception.

A judge on Wednesday declined to dismiss a complaint charging a Wisconsin pediatrician with physically injuring an infant he was adopting with his wife.

Prosecutors on Wednesday charged a Milwaukee man in a drive-by shooting that killed a pregnant mother of five who was on board a party bus.

Starting salaries for Wisconsin state troopers would increase by nearly $6,000 a year under their first new contract in five years, a deal that won approval Wednesday after a previous agreement calling for higher raises was rejected.

The Wisconsin Joint Committee on Finance has unanimously passed bills to fund a pay-progression plan for state public defenders and set up 12 new circuit courts around the state.

A state public defender from Kenosha County has been appointed a Kenosha County Circuit Court judge. Larisa Benitez-Morgan is succeeding Judge David Bastianelli, who's retiring in April.

Judge Mary Triggiano is the new chief judge of the First Judicial Administrative District in Milwaukee County. The Wisconsin Supreme Court announced Triggiano's appointment on Wednesday.

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Six Wisconsin attorneys are among the newest partners at Michael Best. The firm announced the addition of nine partners as members of its LLC on Monday.

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The four lawyers who prosecuted Roger Stone quit the case after the Justice Department overruled them and said it would take the extraordinary step of lowering the amount of prison time it would seek for President Donald Trump's longtime ally and confidant.

A legislative committee was scheduled on Wednesday to take up a $184 million plan to replace Wisconsin's troubled youth prison.

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Election officials in Wisconsin plan to send absentee voters two ballots for the spring election, setting up the possibility of voter confusion.

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Assembly Republicans handed Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul another defeat Tuesday, approving a bill establishing testing protocols for sexual-assault-evidence kits after tacking on divisive provisions critics say are designed to ensure the proposal never becomes law.

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Repeat drunken drivers would spend more time behind bars under a bill the state Assembly passed overwhelmingly on Tuesday.

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The Wisconsin Assembly approved a bill Tuesday that would make bestiality a felony.

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Republican lawmakers continued their drive Tuesday to punish students who disrupt conservative speakers on college campuses, pushing through the state Assembly a bill that calls for suspensions and expulsions.

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A man charged with fatally shooting his sister at her home in Madison on Christmas Eve has been found incompetent to stand trial.

A split Wisconsin Supreme Court has reversed a decision on a subject-matter-jurisdiction dispute relating to an OWI case from Ozaukee County.

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A man accused of a fatal shooting during a drug transaction in Kenosha County has pleaded guilty to felony charges.