A judge scheduled an emergency hearing Tuesday following a late-night request from the Wisconsin Department of Justice to delay an order requiring Gov. Scott Walker to call special elections for a pair of vacant legislative seats.

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The state Senate may reconvene to rewrite Wisconsin's special elections laws after a judge ordered Gov. Scott Walker to call two such contests to fill vacant legislative seats, Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Friday.

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Wisconsin judge is holding a hearing on Thursday to consider whether to order Gov. Scott Walker to call special elections to fill two legislative seats vacated by his fellow Republicans in a fight sparked by a national Democratic group led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

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A Wisconsin man accused of decapitating his mother with a sword last year has been committed to a state mental hospital.

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