The state Assembly is moving to approve bills intended to prevent suicide in Wisconsin.

The partisan squabbling over a $110,000 grant for a suicide prevention hotline continues as the group waits to receive the funding a month after lawmakers approved releasing it.

A bipartisan Wisconsin legislative task force reversed course Wednesday by recommending the faster release of money for a suicide-prevention hotline after it had initially called on the Legislature to pass a bill to award the money, which would take much longer.

La Crosse County officials are considering structural changes at the county's juvenile prison after a spike in suicide attempts.

A sheriff's detective walked into Chuck Lovelace's gun shop in Mount Horeb this spring and delivered unsettling news: A man who had bought a handgun at the shop a few days earlier used it to kill himself.

A cellmate is accused of helping a man in the Portage County Jail in a suicide attempt.

Attorney ranks fourth on the list of professions with the highest rate of suicides, according to data released earlier this year.

The state of Wisconsin has agreed to pay a $737,500 settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit resulting from the suicide of Jessie Miller while he was an inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institute in Portage.

The duty to take more active anti-suicide measures arises only when the risk is imminent, the 7th Circuit has ruled, affirming summary judgment for state officials who treated a teenager who hung himself while in a youth detention facility.

Racine County Circuit Court Judge Dennis Barry was found dead Thursday morning of an apparent suicide, according to Racine County Medical Examiner Tom Terry.