An eight-year fight between the state and a former Milwaukee storage yard owner over a sunken barge is going back to the courthouse where it all began.

A Milwaukee construction company that closed early last year is on the hook for more than $3 million for unpaid commercial loans and other costs.

The Milwaukee County Circuit Court will shuffle judges due to the retirement of Judge Thomas Cooper on Friday. The changes will occur on Feb. 4.

A multi-million dollar lawsuit against Milwaukee-based Castlerock Commercial Construction Inc. could settle before trial, lawyers for both parties said Thursday.

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Elsa Lamelas will not seek another term on the bench.

At least two candidates will vie for the Branch 28 seat in Milwaukee County Circuit Court next spring.

Lindsey Grady, Deputy Register in Probate in Milwaukee County, announced her candidacy Thursday for the Branch 28 seat in Milwaukee County Circuit Court, currently occupied by Judge Thomas Cooper. Cooper's term expires next spring.

Saying the owner of a sunken barge in Milwaukee was a “textbook example of a litigant playing fast and loose with the judicial system,” an appellate court judge Tuesday upheld more than $37,000 in environmental penalties. The case stems from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s seizure of a riverfront property at 260 N. 12th St. The property along the Menomonee ...

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.