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A referee is recommending that the Wisconsin Supreme Court suspend the license of a Walworth County attorney for 60 days over several charges of misconduct.

Tagged with: office of lawyer regulation OLR Patrick Hudec

A Racine father is accused of inflicting injuries that caused the death of his baby.

A Wisconsin man has been indicted for causing the death of an Illinois state trooper who was helping victims in a multiple-vehicle highway crash.

Milwaukee County may be preparing to sue VJS Construction and HGA Architects over change orders that cost the county about $250,000 during construction of an elephant exhibit at the Milwaukee County Zoo.

Gov. Tony Evers' pick to lead the Wisconsin Department of Health Services on Wednesday defended naming a former vice president at Planned Parenthood as a top deputy, saying she won't have any involvement in lawsuits challenging the state's abortion laws.

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Liberal-backed Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Lisa Neubauer is drawing criticism from her opponent for attending a climate change march protesting the environmental agenda of President Donald Trump.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reinstated the license of a Milwaukee attorney who was suspended about 20 years ago.

Tagged with: office of lawyer regulation OLR Robert Malloy Wisconsin Supreme Court

A lawyer from the state Department of Health Services and a former attorney were recently appointed to leadership positions at the state Department of Workforce Development.

Tagged with: Jesus Villa Pam McGillivray

A Milwaukee man who tried to join and fight for the Islamic State has been sentenced to seven years in a federal prison.

Tagged with: Jason Ludke Lynn Adelman

The coaches of a Wisconsin cheerleading squad have been banned from competitions following complaints about a banquet that included gag awards for team members' breasts and buttocks.

Gov. Tony Evers wants to indefinitely delay closing the state's troubled juvenile prison, spend nearly $200 million more on replacement facilities and increase the age for charging juveniles as adults from 17 to 18.

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Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers will call for enacting a nonpartisan redistricting process as part of the state budget he introduces on Thursday.

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A man charged in the shooting death of a Milwaukee police officer last summer changed his plea to guilty as opening statements were to begin in his trial.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended an Oshkosh attorney’s license for 90 days.

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A Wisconsin woman accused of killing three infants, including her son, in the 1980s has pleaded guilty to criminal charges.

Tagged with: homicide Nancy Moronez

A new report confirms what advocates of replacing Green Bay's maximum-security institution have long been arguing: the prison is overcrowded, out-of-date and dangerous.

Tagged with: Green Bay Correctional Institution Tony Evers

A DeForest man has pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally dealing guns.

A fraternity at the University of Wisconsin has been suspended after younger members were allegedly pressured to run errands, wear "Dora the Explorer" backpacks and carry fruit around campus.

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Two Milwaukee police officers have been cleared in the fatal shooting in October of a man who was firing shots at them.

In May 2014, two 12-year-old Waukesha girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, lured their friend, Payton Leutner, into a Waukesha park and stabbed her 19 times.

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Federal authorities say five people have been indicted over allegations that they cut down trees on the Menominee Indian Reservation in order to sell timber to saw mills outside the reservation without the consent of the Wisconsin tribe.

A Wisconsin accountant accused of stealing more than $800,000 in a tax scheme has been sentenced in federal court.

A former Wisconsin man is charged with first-degree murder decades after the disappearance of his wife, whom he said stormed out of their home after an argument in 1979 and has not been seen since.

Brad Fulton started at the bottom at DeWitt.

Tagged with: Asked & Answered Asked and Answered Brad Fulton DeWitt DeWitt Ross & Stevens SC

Attorney General Josh Kaul has asked Gov. Tony Evers to let him spend $4.4 million in the next state budget to hire more evidence analysts and set up pay raises for them.

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A Wisconsin man accused of helping a 14-year-old girl escape sexual abuse in exchange for video of her being raped has pleaded not guilty to sexually exploiting a child.

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The Wisconsin law community honored 21 Leaders in the Law during the 17th annual Wisconsin Law Journal event at the Marcus Performing Arts Center in Milwaukee on Thursday night.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a lower court’s decision to halt arbitration proceedings over a dispute involving a Green Bay construction project until an insurance dispute connected to the project had been resolved.

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Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is giving Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to legalize medical marijuana just a 10 percent chance of winning approval in the GOP-controlled Legislature.

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Lisa Neubauer is revealing that she was an unnamed plaintiff in a successful lawsuit brought in the 1970s against Chicago police after she was strip searched but not under arrest.

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