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The state Department of Corrections has reached a legal settlement that calls for the agency to end the use of pepper spray and solitary confinement at Wisconsin's youth prison.

State taxpayers will pay $30,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed against a lawmaker who stole a sign from a protester referring to President Donald Trump as "sadistic," ''racist" and a "serial groper."

The state Department of Corrections reached an $18.9 million settlement Tuesday with a former youth prison inmate who suffered brain damage after she tried to hang herself in her cell.

A black, female police officer has settled her claims of harassment by some night-shift colleagues with the City of Green Bay for $200,000.

Milwaukee County plans to settle a lawsuit from an augmented-reality game developer that challenged an ordinance requiring developers to get local permits for apps like Pokemon Go to be played in parks.

The government has reached a $2.3 million settlement with survivors of a Marine veteran who died of a drug overdose at the troubled Wisconsin Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Wisconsin environmental officials have agreed to settle a dairy industry lawsuit alleging the agency is over-regulating large livestock farms.

The state Department of Natural Resources has agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging the agency is over-regulating large livestock operations.

The U.S. Department of Justice says it has settled discrimination claims from two HIV patients who said physicians at a Milwaukee-based medical provider refused to treat them because of their illness.

Milwaukee officials have approved a $2.3 million settlement with the family of a mentally ill black man who was fatally shot in a 2014 confrontation with a white police officer.

A former Milwaukee Bucks cheerleader who claimed in a lawsuit that she and her colleagues were underpaid has reached a settlement with the team but the organization maintains it did nothing wrong.

DirecTV customers in Wisconsin will soon be seeing a $4.25 refund.

The family of a Walworth County man shot by a sheriff's deputy has reached a settlement with the county.

Relatives of an unarmed black teenager who was fatally shot by a police officer in Wisconsin will receive $3.35 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit, attorneys announced on Thursday.

A woman who was raped by a Milwaukee police officer responding to her 911 call in 2010 will receive $2.5 million to settle her lawsuit against the city.

Seventeen participants in a Black Lives Matter protest that blocked traffic in Portland, Maine, have admitted to disorderly conduct under an agreement that will absolve them of charges if they stay out of trouble.

A pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay a settlement in a whistleblower lawsuit brought by a Milwaukee firm.

Russ Bynum Associated Press ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — A ConAgra subsidiary pleaded guilty Tuesday and agreed to pay $11.2 million — including the largest criminal fine ever imposed for a foodborne illness in the United States — to resolve a decade-long criminal investigation into a nationwide salmonella outbreak blamed on tainted peanut butter. ConAgra admitted to a single misdemeanor count ...

The Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $300,000 to an inmate at Wisconsin's troubled youth prison who waited nearly two hours for a nurse after a guard smashed his toes in a door, according to a settlement agreement.

Wisconsin will get a cut of a $41.2 million settlement 33 states reached with car manufacturers over claims that they misrepresented mileage and fuel economy for some of their vehicles.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco has approved a $15 billion court settlement of most claims against Volkswagen for its emissions-cheating scandal. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer signed the order Tuesday approving the largest auto-scandal settlement in the nation’s history. About 475,000 owners of VWs and Audis with 2-liter four-cylinder diesel engines now will be able ...

Harley-Davidson Inc. agreed Thursday to pay $15 million to settle a U.S. government complaint over racing tuners that caused its motorcycles to emit higher-than-allowed levels of air pollution.

Barclays Bank has agreed to pay $100 million to 43 states and the District of Columbia to settle allegations it improperly set key interest rates almost a decade ago, affecting payments on investments.

Enbridge Energy Partners has reached a $176 million settlement for the costliest inland oil spill in U.S. history — a pipeline rupture in southwestern Michigan that polluted a nearly 40-mile stretch of the Kalamazoo River, federal officials said Wednesday.

Menard Inc. has agreed to change some practices after the National Labor Relations Board found it was violating federal labor law.

The Pop Warner organization has settled a lawsuit brought by a Wisconsin woman who alleged her 25-year-old son's suicide resulted from brain injuries he suffered while playing youth football, a Pop Warner spokesman said Wednesday.

Koss Corp. has settled a lawsuit against American Express Co., resolving allegations that the credit-card company should have known that Koss’s money was being embezzled to pay for a former Koss executive’s shopping sprees. Koss, a Milwaukee-based maker of high-fidelity headphones, announced Friday that it will receive a gross amount of $3 million from the settlement. Part of the money ...

The Milwaukee City Council approved a $5 million settlement Tuesday with dozens of African-American men who alleged illegal strip searches by police.

Lawyers representing 11,000 mentally ill inmates in Illinois prisons have reached a settlement with the state in a long-running class-action lawsuit that alleged inadequate treatment amounted to "cruel and unusual punishment," a deal both sides heralded on Wednesday.

The state's elections board and the Wisconsin Club for Growth say they've reached a settlement over a lawsuit related to an investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's 2012 recall campaign.