The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin has submitted his resignation days after Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered dozens of the country's federal prosecutors to resign.

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Nineteen people have pleaded guilty in a drug ring that authorities say trafficked 127 pounds of methamphetamine from the Minneapolis area to central Wisconsin communities over a three-year span.

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Federal officials looking into abuse allegations at Wisconsin's youth prison are trying to determine if criminal charges are warranted and also whether another investigation into civil rights violations is in order.

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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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The U.S. attorney's office in Madison says it collected about $3.7 million in criminal and civil actions during the 2014 federal fiscal year.

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A Colorado woman was indicted Wednesday on federal charges alleging that she kidnapped her half sister's newborn from Wisconsin and left him behind an Iowa gas station in freezing weather.

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An hour after a woman reported her newborn son missing from a Wisconsin home, police were questioning her step-sister — found with a prosthetic pregnancy belly, baby clothes and a stroller, but no baby, according to court documents.

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Eastern District of Wisconsin U.S. Attorney Jim Santelle says his office collected about $9.7 million in civil and criminal cases in fiscal year 2013.

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President Barack Obama nominated a Madison attorney Thursday to fill a vacant federal judge position in the Western District of Wisconsin.

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Wisconsin’s federal court system is bracing for another round of budget cuts brought on by the sequester.

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Wisconsin's two U.S. senators are forwarding three candidates to the White House to fill the open federal judicial seat in the Western District.

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China's largest wind turbine company and three people are accused of trade secrets from a U.S. software company, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

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The U.S. attorney in Madison says his office has collected nearly $4 million in criminal and civil actions over the last fiscal year.

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged six men with working in a large-scale marijuana growing operation in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin. U.S. Attorney John Vaudreuil said on Friday that five of the men are Mexican citizens ...

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PARK FALLS, Wis. (AP) — Federal authorities say they’ve arrested one man and are seeking four more after eradicating a large marijuana growing operation found in Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. U.S. Attorney John Vaudreuil said the man was arrested at ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they may pursue a felony charge against a Marshfield man accused of plotting to kill Madison abortion providers. They charged 63-year-old Ralph Lang on Thursday with a misdemeanor count of attempting to injure ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty in federal court to robbing a Fitchburg bank. Federal prosecutors say 56-year-old Mathew Carl Koski of Pewaukee walked into the Park Bank in January and presented a note that said wanted ...

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