Bridget Davis eagerly waved one hand in the air and wiped a tear from her eye with the other one as a yellow school bus pulled up in front of Taycheedah Correctional Institution. Her son Lawson was on the bus, and the last time she saw him was more than a year ago, when she dropped him off at school. "I can't wait to see him," she said.
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Fires at two transmission substations in Wisconsin's capital knocked out power to more than 11,000 customers on a sweltering day, shutting down government buildings, courtrooms and businesses and prompting police to call in additional staff.
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Read More »The nation's former major suppliers of lead paint have agreed to pay California's largest cities and counties $305 million to settle a nearly 20-year-old lawsuit, attorneys said.
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Read More »Gov. Tony Evers says he’s starting a search for the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s next leader.
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Read More »A former Aspirus Wausau doctor has pleaded guilty to prescription fraud.
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A self-styled Rastafarian church in Madison that police raided after it dispensed marijuana that leaders described as a sacrament has reopened, but without the cannabis.
Read More »Gov. Tony Evers is seeking applicants for a Brown County Circuit Court judge vacancy.
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Read More »A Wisconsin prisons official has been posting Facebook memes comparing Muslim children to garbage and flying the LGBTQ flag to flying the Confederate flag.
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The body of a John Doe homicide victim found in a shallow grave in southeastern Wisconsin more than 30 years ago now has a name.
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A man accused of killing a 3-year-old girl in what Milwaukee police say was a road rage shooting is jailed on $250,000 cash bond.
Read More »A Wisconsin prisons official has been posting Facebook memes comparing Muslim children to garbage and flying the LGBTQ flag with flying the Confederate flag.
Read More »The Milwaukee man accused of fatally shooting a police officer at a bar in Racine last month has waived his right to a preliminary hearing.
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A new analysis shows Brian Hagedorn and Lisa Neubauer set new spending records during their state Supreme Court race.
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Read More »A Waupun man accused of harboring a homicide defendant has been released on a signature bond in Dodge County.
Read More »Authorities in Milwaukee have cracked down on an alleged drug-trafficking ring.
Read More »A man who admitted to kidnapping Jayme Closs and killing her parents has been moved outside Wisconsin.
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John Paul Stevens, the bow-tied, independent-thinking, Republican-nominated justice who unexpectedly emerged as the Supreme Court's leading liberal, died Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after suffering a stroke Monday. He was 99.
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Anticipating that the U.S. Supreme Court might end mandatory union fees for public employees, some labor-friendly states enacted laws last year to protect membership rolls while unions redoubled their recruitment efforts. Those steps appear to have paid off, at least initially.
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Read More »A U.S. judge lowered a jury's damage award from $80 million to $25 million for a California cancer victim who used Monsanto's Roundup weed-killer.
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Read More »Democratic lawmakers are planning to tout a new bill that would dramatically rework how Wisconsin draws its legislative district boundaries.
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Read More »A former Wisconsin dairy princess convicted of killing her ex-boyfriend's fiancee in a case featured in a made-for-TV movie is about to be released from prison.
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Quarles & Brady's Rikaela Greane, an associate in the firm’s Madison office, has been elected to the Public Utilities Section Board of the Wisconsin State Bar.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said he won’t run for office again in 2022 because he has accepted a new full-time job running a group, in Washington, D.C., that promotes conservative ideas among young people. The ...
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Read More »A teenager accused of killing his grandparents in Outagamie County has pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
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Read More »Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul is looking for public comment as he drafts legal opinions.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly has outraised his two liberal opponents over the first six months of the year.
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A man on trial for the fatal shooting of a Milwaukee police officer testified that he thought he heard gunshots before he fired an assault-style weapon.
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Read More »Jeff McIntyre, once a partner at Husch Blackwell’s office in Wisconsin, has left the firm following allegations that he punched a man in the nose outside an apartment on Christmas Day 2017 and drove while intoxicated.
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Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta is resigning following criticism of his handling of a plea deal with the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls.
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