Wisconsin's Joint Committee on Finance has approved four new full-time positions for assistant district attorneys. Dane, Brown, Waukesha and Eau Claire counties will each receive one new position.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said Wednesday he won't join a multistate settlement with the Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma and its owners.

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Republican leaders of the Wisconsin Legislature's budget committee say Gov. Tony Evers' proposal to legalize medical marijuana and small amounts of recreational pot will be snuffed out.

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Two Republican legislators are continuing their quest to crack down on drunken driving, reintroducing bills Thursday that would make a first offense a crime and impose stiffer penalties on repeat offenders.

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A Republican lawmaker is renewing his fight against drunken driving as the new legislative session begins with bills calling for stiffer penalties and ignition interlock requirements.

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A state senator whose husband died while waiting for a transplant is proposing legislation requiring Wisconsin employers to allow unpaid leave for donating an organ.

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A Republican assemblyman is working on several more bills designed to combat heroin and drug abuse.

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A bill that seeks to add another charge prosecutors can use for co-sleeping deaths already is getting pushback for a lack of clarity.

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Democrats challenged a pair of Republican lawmakers Thursday to prove measures for tougher drunken driving penalties would actually make a difference, demanding to see statistics and data that would justify the bills' costs.

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Gov. Scott Walker says he believes there would be significant bipartisan support in the Legislature to create a mandatory minimum sentence for those who illegally possess a gun.

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The time has come to admit we are too lax on drunken driving in Wisconsin. That admission alone, however, will do little to alleviate the problem. Action is required.

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A Wisconsin state senator has renewed her call for a 10-year minimum sentence in fatal drunken driving cases after one motorist received only 90 days in jail.

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Two Republican legislators started moving a package of proposals through the state Assembly on Thursday to toughen Wisconsin's drunken driving penalties.

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The Republicans who dominate the state’s Joint Finance Committee plan to keep Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to collect DNA samples from people who have been arrested on suspicion of felonies. But they could drop the plan to take them from those arrested for certain misdemeanors, the co-chairman of the committee said Thursday.

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A proposal that Milwaukee County hire an attorney could signal an eventual shift from the hearing room to the courtroom in the debate over government reform.

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Two Republican legislators are gearing up for another try at toughening the notoriously weak drunken driving laws in Wisconsin, where pounding booze is hard-wired into the culture - and drunken driving kills scores every year.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Milwaukee County prosecutors have cleared both a conservative anti-abortion group and a liberal labor organization of bribing voters during last summer’s state Senate recall elections. The district attorney’s office filed a letter Monday in circuit court ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Milwaukee prosecutors are reviewing accusations of illegal activity by groups supporting Republican Sen. Alberta Darling and her Democratic opponent state Rep. Sandy Pasch. Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf said Thursday his office is looking into block ...

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SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker promises swift action on his budget now that it’s passed the Republican-controlled Legislature without a single Democratic vote. Walker said in a statement after the budget passed the ...

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