Eddie Armstrong had been sitting in the Dane County Jail for nearly two weeks when a judge set him free to await trial. His release was based in part on computer-generated scores that rated Armstrong's likelihood to return to court as fair and predicted he had a good chance of not committing a new crime.

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Besides having to choose between the two candidates running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, voters in Dane County will be weighing in on a rare contest for a spot on their county’s circuit-court bench.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has appointed Dane County Circuit Court Judge William Hanrahan to be chief judge of the Fifth Judicial Administrative District.

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A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled that a doctor who allegedly had inappropriate sexual contact with three female patients was properly fired.

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Gov. Scott Walker is searching for applicants for an appointment to the Dane County Circuit Court.

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After 10 years working in the banking industry, Rhoda Ricciardi decided to pursue a career she had been interested in as a child.

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Gov. Scott Walker’s office is seeking applicants for a vacancy on the Dane County Circuit Court.

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A judge has sentenced a Massachusetts steelworker to two decades in prison in connection with his former girlfriend's death.

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After the defendant rejected the plaintiffs’ settlement offers, a Dane County jury awarded more than $1.7 million to a couple injured in a single-vehicle accident.

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A Mount Horeb man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in a fatal attack with a baseball bat.

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A group of state prison guards has filed a lawsuit alleging the state owes them millions in back pay because of a 2012 work rule that defines when they are considered on duty.

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A Wisconsin law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls is constitutional, a state appeals court ruled Thursday in a decision offering hope for Republicans working to reinstate the mandate.

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A Milwaukee County court commissioner has pleaded no contest to filing false tax documents.

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A Wisconsin man who says he stayed in prison more than a year longer than he should have is suing state corrections officials.

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Closing arguments have ended in the case of a Wisconsin man charged with starving and torturing his 16-year-old daughter.

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Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced Wednesday the Wisconsin Department of Justice reached a settlement agreement of $45,000 with Green Bay-based BelGioioso Cheese Inc.

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Election Day is nine weeks away and campaigns for president, U.S. Senate and House, and the state Legislature are in the home stretch.

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A Milwaukee man who for months eluded arrest after allegedly filing bogus liens has been apprehended and released on bail, according to a media release Wednesday from Attorney General J.B. Hollen.

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This accident took place at the intersection of highways V and I in the town of Vienna, which is in northern Dane County.

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Kent Carnell ventured into construction law by accident.

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Gov. Scott Walker is seeking applicants for appointment to the Dane County Circuit Court.

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Prosecutors have approved a round of DNA testing in a 1994 case that the Wisconsin Innocence Project says could clear a Spring Green woman in another woman's death.

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Wisconsin's board of elections says it will meet soon to discuss whether to appeal a judge's ruling to stop the state's new voter identification law.

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Before Dane County Circuit Court Judge Maryann Sumi drew State ex rel. Ozanne v. Fitzgerald in her docket, she never imagined any case in her court would thrust her so completely into the national spotlight.

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A prosecutor asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday to reopen his lawsuit challenging Gov. Scott Walker's contentious collective bargaining law, contending a justice who voted to dismiss the suit earlier this year got free legal help from the firm defending the law.

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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The League of Women Voters sued Thursday to block Wisconsin’s new voter photo identification law, arguing that the state constitution clearly only bars children, felons and the mentally incompetent from voting, ...

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Gov. Scott Walker’s office is seeking applicants for a vacancy on the Dane County Circuit Court bench.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A Rib Mountain tobacco store is suing the state over its attempt to pull the plug on roll-your-own cigarette machines. The Department of Revenue has informed owners of the machines that they need cigarette manufacturing and ...

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Dane County Circuit Court Judge William Foust is the new chief of chiefs.

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Milwaukee County Court Commissioner Geneva E. McKinley waived her right to a preliminary hearing and was arraigned in Dane County Circuit Court on Monday on two counts of filing false and fraudulent income tax returns, according to a news release from Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen.

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