Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown and the Milwaukee city attorney have agreed to a revised $750,000 settlement of a lawsuit Brown filed after getting taken to the ground, shocked with a Taser and arrested during an encounter with police in 2018.
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Citing the worsening pandemic, Democrats announced Wednesday that their 2020 national convention will be almost entirely virtual, with speakers including presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden appearing via video rather than traveling to Milwaukee as originally planned.
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Multiple people were killed Wednesday in a shooting on the Molson Coors Brewing Co. campus, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit affirmed a ruling for prison officials on a prisoner’s claim that they deprived him of proper medical care by allowing him to come into possession of a pair of scissors, which he used to cut off his penis.
Read moreAfter months of speculation and campaigning, Milwaukee was officially selected Monday to host the 2020 Democratic National Convention over fellow finalist cities Houston and Miami.
Read moreTwo Milwaukee Brewers fans claim in a federal complaint that the club offers only “small, comparably inferior” seating to wheelchair-using patrons, in a “wheelchair ghetto.”
Read moreA federal judge ruled Friday that a jury will hear a case against a nurse and correctional officer working at the Milwaukee County Jail on the night an inmate claims she was forced to give birth in her cell without any medical care, before being shackled during a week of postpartum treatment.
Read moreA local firefighters’ union claims Milwaukee has violated amendments to the city charter and the union’s collective-bargaining agreement by proposing to exclude agreed-upon pension offset payments from the calculation of their retirement benefits.
Read moreNBA guard Sterling Brown sued Milwaukee and its police department in federal court Tuesday, claiming he was arrested and Tasered because he’s black, in an incident that was captured on video.
Read moreThe Milwaukee Police Department released a video Wednesday afternoon showing police arresting and using a stun gun on NBA player Sterling Brown, who said he will sue over the incident.
Read moreMilwaukee reportedly approved a $1.9 million payment Monday to settle a class action brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin claiming city police used abusive stop-and-frisk tactics motivated by race and ethnicity.
Read moreMilwaukee County prosecutors on Wednesday charged a jail health care contractor with falsifying records about the dehydration death of an inmate who was deprived of water for seven days.
Read moreA federal jury found Monday that former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke did not violate a Wisconsin man’s free-speech rights by mocking him on social media about an airport encounter stemming from the man shaking his head at the sheriff during a flight last year.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Friday that former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke will go to trial later this month over claims he threatened a Wisconsin man online after an airport encounter stemming from the man shaking his head at the sheriff during a flight last year.
Read moreMilwaukee County approved an $83,000 settlement Thursday for an app maker that challenged an ordinance requiring companies to get an event permit for apps such as Pokemon Go to be played in parks.
Read moreThe full Seventh Circuit on Friday upheld the constitutionality of a police stop said to target a car for “parking while black,” in which Milwaukee officers pulled black passengers out of the car and handcuffed them for parking too close to a crosswalk.
Read moreThe National Congress of American Indians agreed this week to support the efforts of Canada’s Assembly of First Nations to add an indigenous chapter in the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Read moreControversial former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said Tuesday that he has taken a new job as a senior adviser and spokesperson for the pro-Trump super PAC America First Action.
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