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Harassing sports officials in Wisconsin would be a crime punishable by a fine as high as $10,000 and nine months in jail under a bipartisan proposal introduced this week in the Legislature.

One day in May of 1970, an 11-year-old boy and his disabled sister were sitting on the curb outside a Chicago tavern, waiting for their mother to come out. When a priest with crinkly eyes and a ready smile happened by and offered the family a ride home, they could not have been happier.

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Recently released statistics from the American Bar Association show enrollment at UW Law School and Marquette University Law School in 2019.

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A suburban Milwaukee man is accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend's new love interest at the victim's Racine County home.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court disagreed on invoking laches in an appeal case that concerns a defendant's rights in a 2007 homicide conviction. Last week, a 4-3 majority upheld imposing laches in the case, prompting the responses "Really?" in one of the arguments.

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Wisconsin election officials are scheduled to meet Monday to consider what to do about the more than 200,000 voters that a judge has ruled should be purged from voter rolls in the key swing state.

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Investigators are releasing more information about a fatal crash in Manitowoc County that involved a sheriff's deputy.

A Russian immigrant wants to withdraw his guilty plea to killing three people in a wrong-way crash on a western Wisconsin interstate two years ago.

A Madison man is accused of fatally shooting his sister at her home on Christmas Eve.

A visitor to a Wisconsin Dells resort has been charged with a hate crime after allegedly admitting that he assaulted a man because of his race in a resort bar, authorities said.

Authorities say a Wisconsin man is facing his 11th drunken driving charge after a hit-and-run crash on Christmas night.

Wisconsin authorities are looking into a Madison high school business club's past trips after students discovered hidden cameras in their hotel room.

An Appleton man accused of killing his mother must undergo a competency exam, a judge said this week.

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The American Bar Association started the Survivor Reentry Project to provide national training and assistance for attorneys working with trafficking survivors seeking criminal record relief.

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Republican legislators have decided to hire their own attorneys in a federal lawsuit seeking to keep more than 200,000 voter registrations in place.

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More than 260 Wisconsinites received restitution for alleged consumer-protection violations, according to Attorney General Josh Kaul's office. The payments for the two cases totaled more than $126,000.

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A former Wisconsin inmate who was convicted of fraud for persuading a family to pay for non-existent college courses has set himself up in the education business again, but under a new name.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly has decided he won't play any role in deciding a lawsuit demanding state election officials immediately purge more than 200,000 voter registrations.

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Law enforcement officials in Racine County say they recorded six drunken-driving arrests within a five-hour span.

A judge has reinstated a felony count against a Milwaukee man who was living in an underground bunker that contained a stash of weapons, generator and various power tools.

For decades, those who have participated in snowball fights in one Wisconsin city have risked getting in trouble with the law. But that may be about to change.

A doctor and an office manager at a Wauwatosa clinic have pleaded guilty to handing out large doses of painkillers to people who paid for them in cash.

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A man convicted of kidnapping a Wisconsin girl and killing her parents told police after his arrest that he never thought Jayme Closs would escape because she was petrified, and that after holding her captive for two weeks, he believed he'd get away with his crimes, according to a transcript of a police interview.

A conservative law firm asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday to bypass a lower court and take the appeal of a ruling that ordered the purge of more than 200,000 voter registrations in the battleground state ahead of the 2020 election.

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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said Friday he will not consider a pardon request from a man convicted of rape and murder when he was a teenager whose story was documented in the 2015 Netflix series "Making a Murderer."

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court sided with an advertising company in a billboard battle in Stevens Point. The justices decided Lamar Central Outdoor was unfairly asked to remove a billboard alongside Interstate 39.

A former Madison police officer has been arrested and accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a child.

A Wisconsin Democratic state lawmaker midway through his first term in office should resign following a substantiated complaint that he sexually harassed a legislative employee, Assembly Democrats leaders and the state party chairman said Thursday.

The family of two Wisconsin men who disappeared during a trip to Missouri for their livestock business have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit.

Medical marijuana will not become legal in Wisconsin next year or anytime soon, despite broadening support, the state Assembly's top Republican — himself an advocate for legalization — said Thursday.

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