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A ruling from a judge may be needed to sell homemade baked goods in Wisconsin. Three home bakers in the state are challenging a state law that can punish people who sell homemade cookies, brownies and other treats with up ...

  HUDSON, Wisc. — The U.S. Supreme Court will decide if a family can sell a piece of property that’s been in the family for 57 years. The decision in a case called Murr v. Wisconsin could impact the rights ...

A Wisconsin family has had to appeal all the way to the United States Supreme Court to get permission to sell or build on property they have paid taxes on for decades. The family, the Murrs, are trying to get ...

Government officials in Wisconsin tried to force a family of eight people to choose between their faith and a building code. Amos and Vera Borntreger and their six children were nearly evicted from their off-grid home because it lacked, among ...

Police in one Wisconsin town are telling residents: Let us search your home for guns you don’t know you have. Incredibly, the police want to come into homes without a warrant to look for firearms that have perhaps been long ...

A small town and a sheriff’s department used an armored vehicle and 24 deputies to collect a civil judgment from a 75-year-old man in a case that has spotlighted the militarization of America’s police. The show of force stemmed from ...

Meredith Prohaska, a 12-year-old girl from Wisconsin, died suddenly in July after going to see the doctor for a sore throat. Her mother described it as a normal day, but with one exception: “The only thing different about that day ...

A popular and well-known organic meat company is being forced to close after being deemed a “public nuisance” by a local governmental agency, its owner says. The Black Earth Meats company in Wisconsin says it is closing after officials with the town ...

County prosecutors and state investigators violated the constitutional rights of conservatives with an investigation that involved armed raids on private homes, a federal judge in Wisconsin has ruled. “The plaintiffs have been shut out of the political process merely by ...

Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger was acquitted of fresh food crimes after an extended legal battle with the state. Hershberger was charged with multiple offenses related to sharing GMO-free raw milk with folks eager to consume the natural and unpasteurized ...