A Black man whose arrest triggered a violent protest in Madison will plead guilty to extorting a local business in a deal with federal prosecutors.
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Read More »A Black man whose arrest triggered a violent protest in Madison will plead guilty to extorting a local business in a deal with federal prosecutors.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reinstated almost all of the laws passed by Republicans during a December lame-duck legislative session that limited the powers of the state's incoming Democratic governor and attorney general.
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Read More »An attorney for a Wisconsin political activist accused of trying to buy a lethal dose of a radioactive substance online said Monday his client intended to use it to kill himself because he has cancer.
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Read More »A Wisconsin man accused of stealing a cache of weapons and sending an anti-government manifesto to the White House failed to stand for a federal judge at his arraignment.
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Read More »An Oxford man has pleaded guilty to theft of government funds.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended an attorney’s license for failing to competently represent a client, as well as lying to and not communicating with that client.
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Read More »A Wisconsin man pleaded not guilty Friday to a federal charge that he tried to join the Islamic State terror group.
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Read More »A Madison man charged with attempting to joining the Islamic State has been ordered to be held without bond.
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Read More »A Wisconsin inmate who tried to argue he needed an attorney to represent him in a civil case had his case shot down Wednesday by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Read More »A woman accused of abducting her newborn nephew in Wisconsin and abandoning him outside a gas station in Iowa has pleaded not guilty to a federal kidnapping charge.
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Read More »A woman accused of kidnapping her newborn nephew and leaving him outside an Iowa gas station in frigid temperatures has made her first court appearance in Wisconsin.
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Read More »A T-shirt featuring an image of Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and the phrase "Sorry for Partying" qualifies as political criticism and does not violate a photographer's copyright, a federal judge has ruled.
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Read More »Plaintiffs Rockwell Automation Inc., a Wisconsin corporation, and Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc., an Ohio corporation, filed a lawsuit Nov. 16, 2010, in federal court against defendants Germantown-based WAGO Corp. and its German parent company, WAGO Kontakttechnik GmbH & Co. KG.
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Read More »As a young attorney fresh out of law school in the early 1980s, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker wanted to work for the federal government prosecuting organized crime.
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Read More »MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The attorney for a Marshfield man accused of planning an abortion clinic shooting is raising questions about the defendant’s mental competency. Federal defender Erika Bierma told Magistrate Stephen Crocker on Tuesday that she will file a ...
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