A judge sentenced a man to 15 years in prison Monday for fatally beating his autistic half-brother, calling his efforts to hide the body something out of horror fiction.

The Dane County trial of a man accused of killing his autistic half-brother remains on hold while the defendant undergoes medical tests.

At least two Dane County judges have granted adoptions that recognize the marriages of same-sex couples.

A fired Milwaukee County court commissioner convicted of filing false tax documents will not be able to practice law for 60 days, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

A judge has sentenced a Wisconsin man to a total of five years in prison for sexually assaulting his severely abused younger stepsister and another girl in an unrelated case.

A Wisconsin jury on Friday convicted a 20-year-old man of sexually and physically abusing his stepsister while her parents starved her and kept her in the basement.

A Wisconsin father convicted of abuse for starving his teenage daughter down to 68 pounds was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison.

A fired Milwaukee County court commissioner who was convicted of filing false tax documents is now facing a suspension of her law license.

A judge sentenced a Washington state soldier to two years' probation Wednesday as part of a plea deal after prosecutors accused her of helping her husband hide his half-brother's corpse in the Wisconsin woods.

A judge has sentenced a Madison woman accused of torturing her teenage stepdaughter and starving her down to 68 pounds to five years in prison.

A Milwaukee County court commissioner has pleaded no contest to filing false tax documents.

A Madison woman accused of torturing her teenage stepdaughter and starving her down to 68 pounds is set to be sentenced in July.

The lawyer for a Madison man accused of torturing and starving his teenage daughter has quit the case.

A Wisconsin woman accused of torturing and starving her teenage stepdaughter pleaded no contest to child abuse-related charges Monday just before her trial was set to begin.

A jury has resumed deliberations in the case of a Wisconsin man accused of starving and torturing his teenage daughter.

A Fort Atkinson woman whose son was charged with killing his autistic half brother has been sentenced to a year in jail for using the victim's public assistance benefit.

A judge says a Madison woman accused of letting her sister die is incompetent to stand trial.

A judge says a former Madison man accused along with his mother of leaving his elderly aunt on the floor to die isn't competent to stand trial.

A judge has lowered bail for a Madison truck driver and his wife who are accused of starving and torturing the man's 15-year-old daughter.

A Madison truck driver and his wife are due back in court this week on allegations they starved and tortured the man's 15-year-old daughter.

Milwaukee County Court Commissioner Geneva E. McKinley waived her right to a preliminary hearing and was arraigned in Dane County Circuit Court on Monday on two counts of filing false and fraudulent income tax returns, according to a news release from Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen.

Milwaukee County Court Commissioner Geneva McKinley, who is charged with tax fraud, made her first appearance in court Monday. She appeared in Dane County Circuit Court on two counts of filing false and fraudulent income tax returns.  She was ordered to be booked and released at the hearing. A status conference is scheduled for Aug. 15, before Judge Julie Genovese. ...