By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A special Congressional election in a rural Wisconsin district President Donald Trump carried by 20 points is pitting a Trump-aligned state senator against a school board president hoping to become the ...
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Read More »Prosecutors on Monday have decided to clear an Oshkosh school liaison officer of any wrongdoing for shooting a student during a fight last year.
Read More »The Association of Corporate Counsel's Wisconsin chapter has been awarded a grant to offer more services through a mobile legal clinic serving Milwaukee and other cities.
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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers on Monday allowed nearly all nonessential businesses to reopen as long as they serve no more than five customers at a time, partially lifting the restriction that has ...
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Read More »U.S. Air Force investigators have rejected a Wisconsin National Guard sergeant's allegations that his commanders retaliated against him and tried to force him out of the service after he complained about sexual assaults in his unit.
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Read More »A recently published white paper from Husch Blackwell's private-wealth team offers estate-planning guidance amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Read More »Wisconsin's Joint Committee on Finance is considering a request to add 20 new positions to manage the state's CCAP services.
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Read More »Authorities in northwestern Wisconsin have arrested a 62-year-old man in a fatal shooting of another man.
Read More »The Wisconsin Department of Corrections plans to test all inmates and staff at two Milwaukee correctional centers for COVID-19 next week.
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Although all eyes are on Republican legislators' attempt to derail Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home order in the state Supreme Court, two Waukesha County residents have quietly mounted their own challenge alleging the mandate violates their constitutional rights to worship, protest and travel.
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Read More »A western Wisconsin attorney with a lengthy disciplinary history could lose his law license for good for his latest dozen counts of misconduct.
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The Wisconsin Department of Corrections says it's released nearly 1,600 inmates since March to help reduce the possibility of spreading the coronavirus.
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Read More »The Waukesha County courthouse is increasing hearings and in-person services next week.
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Read More »The Justice Department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning a prosecution that became a rallying cry for the president and his supporters in attacking the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation.
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The state of Missouri plans to seek the death penalty against a man charged with killing two brothers from Wisconsin, according to the man's new attorney.
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Read More »Republicans in more rural parts of Wisconsin joined with business owners to push for a regional reopening plan Thursday to give the economy a boost, as the Department of Workforce Development warned that the state fund that pays unemployment claims could run out of money in five months.
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Applicants are wanted for a Menominee-Shawano County judgeship. The application is open for a seat on Menominee-Shawano County Circuit Court Branch 1.
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Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre is repaying $1.1 million in welfare money that he received for multiple speeches where he did not show up, the Mississippi state auditor said Wednesday.
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Read More »A Milwaukee lawyer could lose her law license for six months for keeping a $25,000 insurance settlement secret from her client, among other misconduct violations.
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The Wisconsin Legislature's lawsuit over Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home order is making headlines throughout the country. The state Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case this week, giving conservative justices on the court an opportunity to dig into the assistant attorney general representing Andrea Palm, the Department of Health Services secretary.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is back for Day Three of arguments by telephone with the audio available live to audiences around the world.
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Conservative justices who control the Wisconsin Supreme Court raised doubts Tuesday about whether Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home order is legal, asserting that the Legislature never intended to give the executive branch so much power.
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The Supreme Court is hearing a second day of arguments by telephone with the audio available live to audiences around the world.
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Read More »The deaths of a husband and wife found in their Kewaunee County home appear to be the result of a murder-suicide, sheriff's officials said.
Read More »A Missouri man is seeking a new new judge and a change of venue for his trial on charges that he killed two brothers from Wisconsin.
Read More »A Lake Delton man on parole for drunken driving is faced with his fifth intoxicated driving charge after crashing his motorcycle on Interstate 94 in Jefferson County.
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Read More »The deaths of a husband and wife found in their Kewaunee County home appear to be the result of a murder-suicide, sheriff's officials said.
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A Milwaukee pain management clinic has agreed to pay at least $1.35 million to settle a lawsuit alleging its doctor ordered unnecessary drug tests for patients in exchange for kickbacks from the testing company.
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Read More »Gov. Tony Evers was scheduled to meet late Monday afternoon with both Republican and Democratic legislative leaders to discuss the next steps in Wisconsin's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Read More »Gov. Tony Evers is turning over more than 10,000 pages in documents to Republican state Rep. John Nygren, and paying the lawmaker's $40,000 in legal fees, in order to settle an open-records lawsuit.
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