The Milwaukee County medical examiner's office says it has investigated 16 probable heroin-related deaths in the past week.

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A 36-year-old Madison woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for her role in the 2014 death of a man from a drug overdose.

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A man accused of selling heroin to a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student who died of an overdose has been sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison.

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Federal and tribal law enforcement authorities said Thursday they've taken down an interstate drug trafficking ring that was the largest source of heroin on two Minnesota American Indian reservations.

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A Sheboygan man has been sentenced to four years in prison for selling heroin that resulted in an overdose death.

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A former University of Wisconsin football player and his twin brother are scheduled to plead guilty in federal court next month in a string of November robberies.

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A Madison man accused in the heroin overdose death of a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student has pleaded not guilty to first-degree reckless homicide.

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A 28-year-old La Crosse man has pleaded guilty to a reduced drug delivery charge in the 2012 heroin overdose death of a Clark County woman.

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A Racine County man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for conducting heroin sales with their small children present.

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A Milwaukee man accused of selling heroin that killed two people in separate overdoses has been convicted.

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Incoming Attorney General Brad Schimel said he would seek to aggressively expand enforcement, treatment and prevention efforts on heroin — actions that he said probably would require additional funding from taxpayers.

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A Madison man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for two heroin sales linked to fatal and near-fatal overdoses.

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A defendant has been sentenced to four years in prison for providing heroin to a woman who injected the drug in the bathroom of a Merrill gas station.

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Even before Dane County Circuit Judge Sarah O’Brien crunched the numbers, she knew something was amiss. Her strongest evidence: “The courtroom didn’t look right when I walked in.”

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A 17-year-old boy accused of giving heroin to another teen who died has been charged with reckless homicide in Waukesha County.

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Two men accused of working with others to move heroin from Chicago to Marinette, Wis., and Menominee, Mich., have been sentenced in federal court.

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A Wisconsin man has been charged in a 2012 overdose death after boasting to another inmate at an Oshkosh jail about selling high-quality heroin.

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Wisconsin's heroin problem continues to grow because traffickers have figured out how to meet the demand for a cheaper alternative to prescription drugs with an inexpensive but highly pure product, the FBI said Tuesday.

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In the 1980s, America faced a crack cocaine epidemic.

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Republican attorney general candidate Brad Schimel is unveiling a plan to combat heroin abuse, which he calls the top public safety issue facing the state.

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The top four candidates for Wisconsin attorney general agreed that heroin is the state's top public safety issue during a debate Saturday at the Wisconsin Professional Police Association annual meeting.

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A La Crosse County judge has ruled a man convicted of reckless homicide in a heroin death isn't competent for sentencing.

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The government can fight computer crime without compromising Americans' privacy rights, the head of the FBI said Tuesday, comparing government monitoring to a police department that stations an officer at a gang-infested park to make it safe for children and families once again.

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Wisconsin's growing number of heroin cases could signal a problem with methamphetamine in the future, one drug expert cautioned this week.

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Wisconsin law enforcement groups are applauding the governor's signing of seven bills that aim to target the state's heroin epidemic, with some officials saying the package's best attribute is that it involves less, not more, punishment for drug users.

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The Wisconsin Senate has passed the final two pieces of a package of bills designed to combat heroin use.

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A state Senate committee has unanimously approved a bill to combat heroin use.

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Assembly Republicans' decision to wrap up their two-year session has left a number of high-profile bills in limbo.

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The Wisconsin Senate is poised to pass a pair of bills designed to combat heroin use.

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A Wisconsin man accused of supplying the heroin that killed a teenager in 2012 has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

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