The Wisconsin Department of Justice began accepting applications on Tuesday for $100 million in new school-safety grants.

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The state bar association has stripped a lawyer convicted in a sexual assault of a prestigious award in the wake of stinging criticism from Attorney General Brad Schimel.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel is suggesting Sen. Ron Johnson wouldn't have won re-election and President Donald Trump wouldn't have won Wisconsin without the state's voter ID law.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel is too soft on big drug companies and polluters, his suggestion that teachers carry guns is alarming and he failed to effectively investigate abuse allegations at Wisconsin's youth prison, the Democratic challenger Josh Kaul said on Friday.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel says he's running for re-election this fall.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel's effort to analyze untested sexual assault evidence kits has produced its first criminal charges.

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The Wisconsin Department of Justice says five people have been arrested and two victims have been recovered in a sex trafficking sting in St. Croix County.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel has the money edge over his Democratic opponent Josh Kaul going into the new year.

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Wisconsin Senate Republicans voted Thursday to authorize Attorney General Brad Schimel to start an investigation into the conduct of former workers at the now-dissolved agency that oversaw state elections and ethics laws.

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Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he's open to an expanded investigation into how former workers at the now-defunct Government Accountability Board handled secret John Doe investigations involving Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans.

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The Republican leader of the Wisconsin Senate has asked Attorney General Brad Schimel to re-open an investigation into how a former state agency handled John Doe investigations involving Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans.

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A judge who released previously unknown details about an ethics investigation into Republican office holders and others said Monday that he had made a mistake letting that information become public.

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The saga of John Doe investigations related to Gov. Scott Walker never seems to end, with new twists last week from a report by Attorney General Brad Schimel.

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Republican leaders of the Wisconsin Legislature are calling for administrators of the Ethics and Elections commissions to resign, but the boards that employ them are showing no signs of bending to the increasing pressure.

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Wisconsin ethics and elections officials are expected to respond to what they have said are inaccuracies in a report by Attorney General Brad Schimel about a now-closed secret investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's campaign.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel is asking the state Supreme Court to block state Superintendent Tony Evers from getting his own attorney in a lawsuit challenging his office's powers.

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The deep partisan divide over a secret investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's recall reignited this week after the release of a Department of Justice investigative report that said those who seized personal emails from scores of Republicans and didn't keep them secure should be held in contempt.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel says state regulators can't enforce a rule requiring sprinklers in large apartment buildings.

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The deep partisan divide over a secret investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's recall reignited this week after the release of a Department of Justice investigative report that said those who seized personal emails from scores of Republicans and didn't keep them secure should be held in contempt.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel didn't ask a journalist to reveal who leaked documents to him that were collected during the investigation of Gov. Scott Walker's campaign out of respect for the reporter's free speech rights, Schimel's spokesman said Thursday.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel says he would support closing the state's troubled youth prison if corrections officials could find another way to handle serious juvenile offenders but no good alternatives have emerged yet.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel says he agrees with legislative leaders' stance that sexual harassment complaints against lawmakers and their staff should be secret.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel is telling state Superintendent Tony Evers he won't stop him from hiring a personal attorney to represent him in a lawsuit challenging his office's powers.

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Attorney General Brad Schimel is not the lawyer for Gov. Scott Walker's re-election campaign. But, in a stunning breach of faith that displays his extreme partisanship, Schimel is acting as if the Walker campaign were his client.

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State Superintendent Tony Evers, a Democratic candidate for governor, said Tuesday he refuses to be represented by the Republican-led Wisconsin Department of Justice in a lawsuit challenging his independence.

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Republican Gov. Scott Walker ordered state Justice Department attorneys on Wednesday to represent schools Superintendent Tony Evers in a lawsuit alleging Evers is writing education regulations without the governor's permission, even though the department believes Evers is overstepping his authority.

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Attorney General Brad Schimel says the state Group Insurance Board can offer self-insurance plans to municipal employers.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel says he doubts he'll join a lawsuit seeking to force President Donald Trump's administration to make health care subsidy payments.

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Prosecutors were waiting for the state crime lab to complete blood tests on a repeat drunken driver this summer when he struck and killed a man changing a flat tire along the interstate.

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The state Department of Justice has set up a public website that tracks the agency's efforts to test hundreds of untested sexual assault evidence kits.

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