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The Wisconsin Joint Committee on Finance has conditionally approved money for two full-time assistant district attorney positions in Milwaukee County.
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Read More »Evers will turn over 10,000 pages of records to lawmaker
Gov. Tony Evers is turning over more than 10,000 pages in documents to Republican state Rep. John Nygren, and paying the lawmaker's $40,000 in legal fees, in order to settle an open-records lawsuit.
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Read More »Evers to comply with Republican lawmaker’s records request
Gov. Tony Evers will comply with an open records request from a top Republican lawmaker who filed a lawsuit to force the release of material related to farmer mental health programs, court documents show.
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Read More »Wisconsin lawmaker’s daughter sentenced in fatal OD case
The daughter of a Wisconsin state lawmaker was sentenced Thursday to 13 years in prison for providing drugs that killed a pregnant woman.
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Read More »Legislator’s daughter sentenced for woman’s death
The daughter of a Wisconsin state legislator was found guilty Tuesday of supplying drugs that led to the death of a pregnant woman and her baby.
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Read More »JFC approves 4 full-time ADA positions
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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Read More »Lawmakers OK state’s 1st settlement under lame-duck laws (UPDATE)
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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Read More »Kaul declines to join Purdue Pharma lawsuit settlement
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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Read More »Republican leaders say Evers’ pot proposal to be snuffed out
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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Read More »GOP signals Wisconsin will stay in Obamacare lawsuit
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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Read More »Judge: GOP can’t block liberal group’s Twitter comments
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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Read More »Additional charges filed in fatal overdose death
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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Read More »Lawmaker’s daughter enters plea in drug death case
The daughter of a Wisconsin legislator has pleaded not guilty to delivering the drugs that killed a pregnant woman.
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Read More »Assembly passes batch of bills to combat opioid abuse
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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Read More »Assembly to vote on WIAA open records proposal
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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Read More »Lawmakers to vote on WIAA open records laws
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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Read More »Budget committee approves spending more on drug treatment
The Legislature's budget committee has approved a bill that would boost funding for drug treatment programs.
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Read More »Assembly approves anti-heroin bills
The state Assembly has approved a package of bills designed to slow the spread of heroin.
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Read More »Assembly passes anti-heroin bill
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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Read More »Assembly committee approves anti-heroin bills (UPDATE)
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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Read More »Lawmaker readies quartet of anti-heroin measures (UPDATE)
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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Read More »Some DAs, public defenders to get raise
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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Read More »$3 million boost for TAD programs clears Senate
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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Read More »Senate to pass bills targeting heroin use
The Wisconsin Senate is poised to pass a pair of bills designed to combat heroin use.
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Read More »Assembly OKs 2 more heroin bills
The Wisconsin Assembly has approved two more bills designed to curb heroin abuse.
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Read More »Assembly OKs parolee sanctions bill
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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Read More »AG awards $1.5M to 13 diversion programs
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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Read More »Legislator introduces more heroin bills (UPDATE)
A Republican assemblyman is working on several more bills designed to combat heroin and drug abuse.
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Read More »Assembly passes 4 bills to curb heroin abuse
The state Assembly unanimously passed four bills Tuesday that seek to curb heroin abuse.
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Read More »Assembly committee passes heroin prosecution bill (UPDATE)
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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