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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Republicans who control the Legislature's budget committee signed off Thursday on the state's first settlement under laws that granted them oversight of Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul's legal negotiations.

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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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One of the top officials on the state Legislature's budget-writing committee is signaling Republicans won't let Attorney General Josh Kaul pull Wisconsin out of a multistate lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act.

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A federal judge says top Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature violated the First Amendment when they blocked a liberal-advocacy group from seeing their Twitter feeds.

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Charges have been filed against a man accused of providing the drugs eventually sold by a state legislator's daughter to a pregnant woman who died of an overdose in Brown County.

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The daughter of a Wisconsin legislator has pleaded not guilty to delivering the drugs that killed a pregnant woman.

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Three months after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker called on the Legislature to take swift action to combat the state's opioid epidemic, the state Assembly nearly unanimously passed nine pieces of legislation Tuesday, though not without some partisan conflict.

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The state Assembly is expected to vote on a bill that would make Wisconsin's high school sports association subject to open records and meetings laws.

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An Assembly committee is slated to vote Wednesday on a bill that would subject Wisconsin's high school athletics association to open records and meetings laws.

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The Legislature's budget committee has approved a bill that would boost funding for drug treatment programs.

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The state Assembly has approved a package of bills designed to slow the spread of heroin.

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The state Assembly is set to vote on a bill that would clarify that pharmacies can hand out a heroin overdose antidote under a doctor's standing order.

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Wisconsin lawmakers moved closer Thursday to passing another round of legislation designed to combat heroin abuse, pushing the bills through an Assembly committee with overwhelming support.

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A Republican lawmaker whose daughter has struggled with a heroin addiction announced Tuesday he plans to introduce another round of legislation focusing on opiate prescriptions that can lead to heroin abuse.

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Some assistant and deputy district attorneys and assistant state public defenders are likely to see a raise for the 2016-2017 fiscal year.

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The state Senate passed a bill Tuesday that allocates $3 million to pay for Treatment Alternatives and Diversion programs across the state.

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

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The Wisconsin Assembly has approved two more bills designed to curb heroin abuse.

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The Wisconsin Assembly has approved a bill that would create a formal system of short-term sanctions for convicts who violate parole or probation.

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The state Attorney General’s Office announced Tuesday that 13 criminal diversion programs across the state will receive grants this year.

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

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The state Assembly unanimously passed four bills Tuesday that seek to curb heroin abuse.

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An Assembly bill that gives individuals who call 911 to report a heroin overdose immunity from prosecution for certain crimes unanimously passed out of committee Thursday.

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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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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Dane County judge has ruled that a Republican state lawmaker can’t have his name added to the ballot for an upcoming recall election. Judge Richard Niess ruled against Rep. John Nygren of Marinette on Friday ...

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By DINESH RAMDE Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — County clerks in northeastern Wisconsin have begun preparing ballots for a recall election in three weeks, fully aware that an impending court ruling involving the state senate race could turn all their ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Dane County judge will hear arguments this week in the case of a Republican state lawmaker who says his name should be on the ballot in an upcoming recall election. Rep. John Nygren of Marinette ...

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