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Republican leadership in the state Legislature plan to intervene in a legal challenge of the state's well-known Act 10 law to contest arguments made by two labor unions that argue the law curtailing collective bargaining also limits their free-speech rights.

In talking with court representatives and lawmakers, a member of the Judicial Council may have found an answer to the council’s budget woes.

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Gov. Tony Evers is refusing to say whether he agrees with his spokeswoman's claims that Republican legislative leaders won't negotiate with his chief of staff because she is a woman.

It was nearly three hours before sunrise on a frigid October morning when immigration attorney Aissa Olivarez climbed into her Honda CR-V and left her Madison apartment.

A Mississippi jury has awarded more than $3 million to five African American strippers after a federal judge found the women worked under worse conditions than their white colleagues.

Dane County Jail inmate Christopher Beierle says he is in constant pain from an untreated hernia, but he cannot get a surgery that would alleviate his symptoms because he is not eligible for health care while incarcerated.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently issued an order changing how the state’s pro hac vice fees are allocated, paid and collected.

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An attempted kidnapping of a toddler in Lake Delton was thwarted when the child's parents awoke to a noise in the youngster's bedroom.

Gov. Tony Evers is looking for candidates to fill the top prosecutor spot in Marquette County.

The Milwaukee-based firm Quarles & Brady is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to undo the state Legislature's recent ban on ghostwriting.

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A man charged with killing a Manitowoc father and his teenage daughter has pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court says county officials can order a town to rename more than a quarter of its roads.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is one of five state AGs who filed new lawsuits Thursday against the maker of Oxycontin.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court says county officials can order a town to rename more than a quarter of its roads.

The Wisconsin state Senate has approved a constitutional amendment bolstering crime-victim rights.

The Director of State Courts Office is accepting applications for court-interpreter training in June in Wisconsin Rapids.

Republican lawmakers are introducing a bill that would allow pharmacists to prescribe birth control pills.

A University of Wisconsin student charged in the beating death of his mother mistook the woman for an intruder when he repeatedly hit her with a baseball bat, an attorney said.

The Wisconsin Assembly is poised to pass a so-called "born alive" anti-abortion bill passed in other states that President Donald Trump has touted.

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Alabama legislators have given final approval to a ban on nearly all abortions, and if the Republican governor signs the measure, the state will have the strictest abortion law in the country.

The Wisconsin Senate is scheduled to approve a bill designed to bolster and streamline the state's pollution credit-trading system.

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The conservative justices who control the Wisconsin Supreme Court attacked liberal groups' claims Wednesday that Republican legislators met illegally when they passed laws limiting Gov. Tony Evers' and Attorney General Josh Kaul's powers during a lame-duck session last year, saying the Legislature can decide when it wants to meet.

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The Legislature's budget-writing committee overwhelmingly approved Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' proposal Tuesday to authorize more borrowing for clean water projects, handing the governor a small victory after killing his plan to replace lead pipes across the state last week.

A Mexican restaurant in Madison is closed while public-health officials investigate a possible outbreak of foodborne illness.

A proposal expanding the state’s expungement process is scheduled for a vote Wednesday on the floor of the state Assembly.

Gov. Tony Evers recently appointed a former candidate for clerk of circuit court to the vacant Racine County register of deeds position.

A jury on Monday ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. to pay a combined $2.055 billion to a couple claiming that the company's popular weed killer Roundup Ready caused their cancers.

Police say the deaths of two people in a Racine home are being investigated as a murder-suicide involving an estranged couple.

A software company on Monday tried to persuade the Wisconsin Claims Board to hand over $14.3 million for extra work building a new system to track state employees' retirement benefits.

Gov. Tony Evers recently announced that he has appointed a lawyer to take over as Milwaukee County Register of Deeds.