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Wisconsin is joining a national effort calling for Congress to permanently classify fentanyl and related substances as Schedule I drugs.

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A conservative-backed incumbent Wisconsin Supreme Court justice running for re-election is renting space from the state Republican Party and getting help from the GOP in circulating his nomination papers, in the latest signs of how partisan the races have become in recent years.

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A Wisconsin county's ridiculed resolution that sought to dictate, under the threat of prosecution, how the media could report on a water study was the brainchild of a neighboring county's top official, newly released records show.

Opponents of a power line in southwestern Wisconsin are taking their fight against the $492 million project to federal court.

A 16-year-old Wisconsin boy was charged Wednesday with attempted murder for allegedly stabbing a school resource officer with a barbecue fork.

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No officers will be charged in the fatal shooting of a man outside a bar near Sparta in western Wisconsin last month, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

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The death of an inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution is under investigation, according to sheriff's officials.

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The push to legalize medical marijuana in Wisconsin grew Wednesday with the unveiling of a bill introduced for the first time by Republican lawmakers.

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A former Elm Grove lawyer turned landscaper will soon learn if his license will be reinstated.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has denied two motions in two of the state's lame-duck lawsuits.

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A northern Illinois elementary school principal has been charged with sexually assaulting a Wisconsin student a decade ago while she was a student at a high school where he worked as a dean.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is considering making it easier to report lawyers for misconduct.

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The U.S. Supreme Court denied petitions for writ certiorari in two Wisconsin cases in an order published Monday.

Duluth is the latest city to consider banning conversion therapy meant to change a person's sexual orientation.

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A man is charged in Dane County with trying to have his probation agent killed because the agent was trying to put him in a drug-treatment center.

A Wisconsin teenager who was shot by a police officer after he allegedly pointed a pellet gun at another student's head says he was "tired of being picked on," according to criminal charges filed Monday.

A female suspect has been arrested in a fatal shooting in Racine, police said Monday.

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The head of the Wisconsin National Guard said Monday that he intends to follow the recommendations made after an investigation into reports of sexual assault and harassment.

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A Wisconsin Assembly committee is considering three bills that would implement new pretrial detention procedures and discourage use of cash bail.

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A 16-year-old Wisconsin high school student who was shot after he stabbed a police officer could face attempted homicide charges, but authorities are asking media outlets to keep his name secret out of fear of sparking copycat incidents.

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A 47-year-old Wisconsin man who admitted sending emails to job applicants to a St. Louis health clinic telling them that their names were too "ghetto" to be hired has been sentenced to four years of probation.

The Wisconsin Law Journal honored 21 Unsung Heroes at an event on Thursday at the Grain Exchange in downtown Milwaukee. More than 200 people were in attendance to honor the people who excel behind the scenes.

A federal investigator called the Wisconsin National Guard's response to a sexual-assault case "a train wreck," according to a review of the Guard's handling of sexual assault-allegations.

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A woman will spend more than five years in federal prison for selling methamphetamine from a rural property in northern Wisconsin known as the 'meth farm.'

Business is booming for Chris Willette, a stenographer and the owner of Willette Court Reporting in Wausau.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court is realigning state law with U.S. Supreme Court decisions concerning the necessary criteria that must be must to ensure due process is carried out in eyewitness identifications. A majority of the state Supreme Court justices ruled Tuesday to overturn the burden placed on the state in State v. Dubose, calling the ruling “unsound in principle.”

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Ahead of the 2020 elections, a shareholder at Godfrey & Kahn has asked the Wisconsin Ethics Commission to provide an advisory opinion on the sale of polling research and other data.

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Gov. Tony Evers released a day's worth of his emails to a newspaper, after initially saying state law prohibited him from doing that.

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The La Crosse County assistant district attorney Melissa Inlow will serve as district attorney in nearby Clark County.

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An armed student confronted a school resource officer at a Wisconsin high school on Tuesday morning and both were wounded, police said, in the second such shooting at a school in the state in as many days.