Joe Biden says the police officer in Kenosha who shot Jacob Blake in the back on Aug. 23, leaving the 29-year-old Black man paralyzed, “needs to be charged.”

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The father of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, says his son was left paralyzed from the waist down.

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The Wisconsin Department of Justice is assisting with the investigation into a deadly shooting at a Milwaukee brewery.

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One of two Milwaukee children who were shot by a man because they threw a snowball at his car said he didn't expect the driver to retaliate.

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No officers will be charged in the fatal shooting of a man outside a bar near Sparta in western Wisconsin last month, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

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Wisconsin is ending the year with more fatal police shootings than last year, as the Fox Valley and the state's northeastern region showing marked increases in shootings.

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Two years after a shooter rained gunfire on country music fans from a high-rise Las Vegas hotel, MGM Resorts International reached a settlement that could pay up to $800 million to families of the 58 people who died and hundreds of others who were injured, attorneys announced Thursday.

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Wausau police are recommending second-degree reckless homicide charges in a fatal shooting.

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A Wisconsin man who wounded four co-workers when he opened fire at a software company last year said in a note that he wanted "to right a grave wrong," according to documents released Monday.

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MGM Resorts International has sued hundreds of victims of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in a bid to avoid liability for the gunfire that rained down from its Mandalay Bay casino-resort in Las Vegas.

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Wisconsin schools bracing for the next mass shooting are turning to gunshot-detecting sensors that police across the country rely on, hoping the technology will lead to faster response times when there's an active shooter.

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Authorities say a lawyer was among the victims of a string of northern Wisconsin shootings that also killed a police officer.

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The trial over a civil lawsuit brought by a pair of seriously wounded police officers against a Wisconsin gun shop that they say has sold hundreds of weapons used in crimes is nearing its conclusion.

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Wisconsin's attorney general is promising a thorough and transparent investigation into the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old by a Madison police officer.

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Two Wisconsin lawmakers are pushing legislation to tighten the enforcement of gun rules in domestic violence cases, prompted by a fatal shooting rampage at a suburban Milwaukee spa.

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OKAUCHEE, Wis. (AP) — Court records say the man shot to death by an Okauchee homeowner was unarmed. According to a search warrant affidavit, the homeowner told investigators he thought the intruder was armed when he fired the shots about ...

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MARINETTE, Wis. (AP) — A Marinette County sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed an elderly suspect has been cleared by investigators. The Wisconsin Department of Justice has closed the case into the June 8 fatal shooting of 82-year-old Ralph Slattery ...

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APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his estranged wife in Outagamie County will not receive a new trial. Scott Schmidt was convicted of shooting his wife, Kelly Wing Schmidt, three times in the head with a handgun ...

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A South Milwaukee man learned the hard way he couldn’t win back his ex-girlfriend by getting himself shot. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports 20-year-old Jordan Cardella, a felon, didn’t want to shoot himself because felons aren’t supposed ...

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CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man says he’ll fight extradition to Texas on a manslaughter charge that resulted from a motel shooting. According to a criminal complaint, Lance Mueller and some co-workers were drinking at the MCM Elegante ...

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FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Justice’s investigation into the fatal shooting of a Fond du Lac police officer has been forwarded to the local prosecutor. Fond du Lac District Attorney Dan Kaminsky told the Fond ...

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man has been charged with opening fire in a restaurant, killing one man and critically injuring his brother. Twenty-six-year-old Frank J. Brown was charged Friday with first-degree intentional homicide and attempted first-degree intentional homicide. According ...

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Prosecutors say a Milwaukee man who threatened to shoot himself in the head instead shot and killed his younger brother when the brother tried to intervene. Thirty-three-year-old Patrick Weeks was charged Thursday with first-degree reckless homicide. The ...

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SPARTA, Wis. (AP) — An Illinois woman has been sentenced in Monroe County to life in prison for fatally shooting her ex-boyfriend. Tammy Cole argued that her gun accidentally discharged while she embraced Vance Evans at his home in Tomah ...

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police say they’ve arrested the parents of a 3-year-old girl who was shot and critically wounded in Milwaukee. The shooting was reported shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday. The girl was shot while inside a home on the ...

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MEQUON, Wis. (AP) — An argument over $5 in gas money may have led a 20-year-old man to allegedly kill his parents in a Milwaukee suburb, according to a complaint. Dennis Markov was charged Thursday with two counts of first-degree ...

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APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has ruled in favor of a man who is suing his stepfather over his mother’s shooting death. Outagamie Judge Dee Dyer found Thursday that convicted murderer Scott Schmidt is liable for the wrongful ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man who shot his TV over Bristol Palin’s appearance on “Dancing with the Stars” will serve probation. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that Steven Cowan, 68, was sentenced to three years of probation for ...

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JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — A southern Wisconsin man accused of fatally shooting a passenger in a Jeep last June has pleaded guilty to first-degree reckless homicide. Prosecutors say 45-year-old James Humphrey of Janesville was on a motorcycle when he fired ...

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