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A man accused in the fatal shooting of a Milwaukee police officer is going on trial.

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A Wisconsin man is facing his 10th drunken driving charge following a motorcycle crash.

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The parents of a young woman killed in the 2017 Las Vegas massacre said Wednesday they blame gun manufacturers for their daughter's death.

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A La Crosse man is in trouble with the law after he was arrested for running around a parking lot naked and telling officers he was on "tons and tons of acid."

A drunken driver with a six-year-old in the car nearly struck a Janesville police officer.

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The Superior City Council has decided to censure one of their own despite the mayor's objections.

Wisconsin insurance officials will soon consider a proposal to lower insurance rates for workers' compensation in the state.

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Gov. Tony Evers used his partial veto power to make 78 changes to Republican legislators' version of the state budget before signing it Wednesday. The budget takes effect immediately and Republicans do not have the votes needed to override any of the vetoes.

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Four Democratic presidential candidates are planning to attend a town-hall meeting on July 11 in Milwaukee.

A Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping a woman he met in downtown Minneapolis has been sentenced to 27 years in prison.

One of six men convicted in the death of a co-worker at a Green Bay paper mill in 1992 has been released from prison.

A three-judge panel has dismissed a federal lawsuit challenging Republican-drawn legislative boundaries following a weighty U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

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A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 150 days in jail for repeatedly clogging women's toilets, including at places he worked.

The Wisconsin Lottery says the owner of a winning Megabucks ticket has just two weeks to claim a nearly $6 million prize.

Bond is set at $5 million for a man charged with fatally shooting a Racine police officer who was trying to stop a robbery.

Drunken drivers who consent to a blood draw can't stop the state crime lab from analyzing the sample by withdrawing their permission, Wisconsin's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.

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Conditions at Wisconsin's troubled youth prison have improved but it's still grappling with staff shortages, dirty cells and overuse of pepper spray, according to a report filed in federal court Monday.

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An 82-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a couple at a Wisconsin park 43 years ago.

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers was under pressure Monday to sign the state budget as passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature, even though it doesn’t include many of his priorities and GOP lawmakers have ...

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As Attorney General Josh Kaul and Gov. Tony Evers advocate for more DNA analysts at the Wisconsin Department of Justice, new data show the backlog of DNA evidence at the state's crime labs has been cut by nearly half in 2019.

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Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he wants to work on legalizing medical marijuana this fall.

A man who broke into the home of Jayme Closs after her parents were killed and she went missing has been sentenced to two years of probation.

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — The widow of a truck driver who plunged off a Wisconsin interstate overpass to avoid a fiery collision is suing a company whose driver she says caused the crash by hitting a construction barrier. Lillian Moss Johnson ...

The Supreme Court will decide whether President Donald Trump can end an Obama administration program shielding young immigrants from deportation.

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A U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday rejecting partisan gerrymandering claims in North Carolina and Maryland will effectively end similar federal lawsuits in several states. But it isn't likely to stop other cases challenging congressional or state legislative districts on different grounds or in different venues.

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Authorities report an arrest in the killing of a Racine police officer who was shot while trying to stop an armed robbery.

Prosecutors say a Milwaukee father is accused of fatally punching his 5-year-old son because the boy had eaten some of the cheesecake he had gotten for Father's Day.

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a huge blow to attempts to combat the drawing of electoral districts for partisan gain on Thursday in a ruling that could embolden political line-drawing after the 2020 census.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Canadian company Enbridge Energy doesn't need to carry additional insurance for a pipeline project in Dane County, despite the local government's insistence that it do so lest there be an accidental spill.

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The Supreme Court says law enforcement officers can generally draw blood without a warrant from an unconscious person suspected of driving drunk or while on drugs.

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