Waukesha - A conservative-leaning Wisconsin county on Thursday corrected its count and gave an unofficial 7,500-vote lead to the incumbent in the hotly contested state Supreme Court race seen as a referendum on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's divisive union rights law.

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Wisconsin voters sent Republican Gov. Scott Walker a clear message about their unhappiness with his muscling through a law restricting union rights by sending a once runaway state Supreme Court race toward a near-certain recount and filling the governor's former post with a Democrat.

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Canvassers have started the process of certifying the results of the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.

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A little-known prosecutor who tapped voter unrest in a race to unseat a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice has taken a slight lead as late election returns trickle in.

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By Jack Zemlicka Supreme Court Justice David T. Prosser, the incumbent, and Assistant Attorney General JoAnne F. Kloppenburg were the top two vote-getters in Tuesday’s primary. They will square off in the general election on April 5. Prosser and Kloppenburg, ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An assistant attorney general will try to unseat state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser in April’s elections. JoAnne Kloppenburg and Prosser were the top two vote-getters in Tuesday’s primary. They advance to the April 5 general ...

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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin has spent the last few weeks focused on the Green Bay Packers and Gov. Scott Walker, but a fight has been brewing in the background that could also significantly impact ...

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The former owner of a storage yard in Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley whose property was seized through eminent domain faces a Dec. 1 deadline to remove a barge that sank in the river next to his former property.

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