Charges have been filed against nine people so far as a result of the Wisconsin Department of Justice's work to test thousands of kits containing evidence collected from sexual assault victims.

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The state Department of Justice's efforts to analyze thousands of untested sexual assault kits generated nearly 20 DNA hits during the last half of 2017.

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A woman who was raped by a Milwaukee police officer responding to her 911 call in 2010 will receive $2.5 million to settle her lawsuit against the city.

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"We owe it to those who had the courage to report a sexual assault." That's what Attorney General Brad Schimel said last year when he announced the state was offered $2 million to test backlogged rape kits.

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Miguel Moll knew the risk of rape when he was thrown into jail in 1989 after joyriding in a stolen car.

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Former NFL star Darren Sharper was sentenced Thursday to more than 18 years in prison for drugging women in order to rape them — double the sentence recommended by prosecutors.

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Evidence of a prior consensual sexual relationship between a Milwaukee man and a woman who accused him of rape was properly excluded from his trial, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

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A man who was freed this month from prison, where he was serving a 102-year sentence for a 1991 rape he didn't commit, is living in a Madison homeless shelter and doesn't have enough money to buy the medication he takes for several serious health problems.

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A Wisconsin man who has spent two decades in prison for rape has had his conviction overturned.

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Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad's spokesman defended the state's release of a convict charged with killing his mother and kidnapping a woman 36 hours after leaving prison, saying state officials did everything in their power to protect the public.

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A Wisconsin district attorney who prosecuted a sexual assault case involving two high school students has joined a wave of critics of a Republican lawmaker and his comments about rape.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday reciprocally disciplined two Illinois attorneys for their 2006 criminal convictions in Green Lake County.

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By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) – Innocence Project attorneys cited DNA and other evidence Monday in asking a judge to free a man who has spent nearly three decades in prison for breaking into a St. Louis ...

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A former Hardee’s restaurant trainer from Wisconsin accused of having sex with a 15-year-old trainee in Sioux Falls has been sentenced to five years in prison. KELO television reports that 37-year-old Shannon Manninger was sentenced ...

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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state appeals court on Tuesday ordered a lower court judge to reconsider awarding $1.5 million in damages to a woman who sued three Illinois men for allegedly gang-raping her in ...

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A former Hardee's restaurant trainer from Wisconsin who was accused of having sex with a 15-year-old trainee in Sioux Falls has pleaded guilty to rape.

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Wisconsin man who authorities say was in Sioux Falls training employees for a new Hardee’s restaurant has pleaded not guilty to raping a teenage trainee. Thirty-six-year-old Shannon Manninger is charged with two counts of ...

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