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The U.S. Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision that rejected environmental groups' challenge to sections of wall the Trump administration is building along the U.S. border with Mexico.

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A white couple pointed guns at protesters in St. Louis as a group marched toward the mayor's home to demand her resignation after she read the names and addresses of several residents who supported defunding the police department during an online briefing.

Protesters demonstrating against the use of police force briefly disrupted a Kenosha rally organized to show support for law enforcement on Saturday.

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A Wisconsin judge has sentenced a former federal agent to jail time after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman at his Oconomowoc home in 2013.

A warrant is out for a Fort Atkinson man accused of killing his sister and her husband, shooting at a deputy and burning down a house in southeast Wisconsin.

Federal prosecutors on Friday charged a Black man whose arrest triggered a violent protest in Wisconsin's capital city with extorting local businesses.

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Milwaukee County Circuit Court judges will begin hearing in-person proceedings on Monday.

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The state Department of Natural Resources will restart in-person hunter safety courses next month after a hunter advocacy group sued alleging the department had no authority to cancel them.

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Judge J.P. Stadtmueller of the Eastern District of Wisconsin reached a milestone in his career at a Milwaukee construction executive's sentencing hearing this morning. Stadtmueller said Brian Ganos was close to the 2,200th defendant he's sentenced in his 33 years on the bench.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court won't allow a disbarred Florida attorney to practice law in Wisconsin.

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Racine County Circuit Court Judge Jon Fredrickson and Racine city officials are in a war of words over a lawsuit challenging the city's COVID-19 public-health orders. Fredrickson cautioned city officials against undermining a temporary injunction order in the case, an order the mayor called "extremely troubling.

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A man has been sentenced in Portage County to nine years in prison for his role in a fatal drug overdose.

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An assault on a biracial woman in Madison was being investigated Thursday as a hate crime after the woman told police she was burned by lighter fluid thrown at her and ignited by a white man, just a few blocks from violent protests at the state Capitol.

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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The last time President Donald Trump visited Wisconsin he staged a massive, raucous rally at an arena in downtown Milwaukee. When he returns Thursday to the battleground state, he’ll be reminded ...

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A new Wisconsin poll finds that 61% of respondents support Black Lives Matter protests happening across the nation.

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The ACLU of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Association of African-American Lawyers are offering a free, online legal-observer training session on Thursday.

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The Marsy's Law for Wisconsin outreach director Nela Kalpic has been appointed to the Wisconsin Crime Victims' Rights Board.

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Three people were shot, a house was set on fire and seven police officers and a firefighter were injured as a large unruly crowd gathered at the scene of an investigation into two missing teenage girls in Milwaukee.

Crowds outside the Wisconsin State Capitol tore down two statues and attacked a state senator amid protests following the arrest of a Black man who shouted at restaurant customers through a megaphone while carrying a baseball bat.

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Tommy Thompson has tapped two figures from his past to lead a transition team as he prepares to take over as the University of Wisconsin System's interim president next week.

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Gov. Tony Evers promised Tuesday that his staff won't secretly record his calls with Republican legislative leaders again.

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New state guidelines for reopening schools this fall are merely suggestions and local officials will ultimately set the standards governing when students will be brought back, Gov. Tony Evers said Tuesday.

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State Supreme Court Justice Pat Roggensack said she has long been interested in whether judges were responsible for the large number of Black people who are behind bars. She then pointed the judges to a 2016 paper she wrote on "race and sentencing" and the work of the Supreme Court statistician, Michael Thompson, on "race and Wisconsin courts."

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A Milwaukee attorney has received his second law-license suspension in less than one month, marking his fifth disciplinary action in the state.

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Suzanne O'Neill, a Wisconsin State Public Defender of nearly 30 years, has been appointed as a Marathon County Circuit Court judge.

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Retired Quarles & Brady partner James D. Friedman has been appointed as a referee for lawyer disciplinary matters.

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Nearly every inmate and worker in a Wisconsin prison who tested positive for COVID-19 has recovered, the state Department of Corrections reported on Monday.

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The Racine County Sheriff's Office said Monday that authorities who were investigating a man on allegations of child-sex abuse found pipe bombs in a Burlington residence.

Wisconsin municipalities' biggest expense in the past three decades has been their police departments, according to a report released Monday.

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DeWitt Law Firm is giving $100,000 to help increase access to justice for communities in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

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