MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on Wisconsin Legislature (all times local):

3:45 p.m.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says it’s “too early to tell” whether Republicans will accept changes sought by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to a bill guaranteeing health insurance coverage for people with ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald is walking back comments he made that he wouldn’t rule out accepting federal money to expand Medicaid.

The Republican said on WISN-AM radio Friday that he “went too far” in saying that on Thursday. Fitzgerald told ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on Gov.-elect Tony Evers’ Cabinet picks (all times local):

2:22 p.m.

The Republican leader of the Wisconsin Senate says some Republican senators are questioning Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers’ pick of a roads lobbyist to head the state Department of ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Thursday that he wouldn’t rule out accepting federal money to expand Medicaid in the state, breaking with fellow Republicans including outgoing Gov. Scott Walker.

Gov.-elect Tony Evers ran on a plan to take federal ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans released sweeping lame-duck legislation Friday that would move the 2020 presidential primary, restrict early voting and weaken both Democratic Attorney General-elect Josh Kaul and Gov.-elect Tony Evers.

The GOP aims to hold a hearing on the bills ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican lawmakers are considering passing a bill guaranteeing health insurance for people with pre-existing conditions as part of a lame-duck legislative session next week that could also include measures to weaken Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov.-elect Tony ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans worked behind closed doors Tuesday on a package of proposals to take up during a lame duck session before Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers takes office, even as GOP Senate leader Scott Fitzgerald said a bill that might save 390 jobs at a Kimberly-Clark plant is ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on lame duck legislative session (all times local):

3:30 p.m.

Wisconsin Senate Republican Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says lawmakers are looking at moving the 2020 presidential primary to improve the chances for conservative Supreme Court Justice ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican leader of the Wisconsin Senate says six or seven more votes are needed to approve a tax incentive package designed to stop consumer products company Kimberly-Clark from closing a plant near Appleton.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald told reporters ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Nothing has been ruled out for consideration during a lame duck legislative session next month before Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers takes office, Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Monday.

But Fitzgerald, speaking to The Associated Press in his ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Legislature (all times local):

3:10 p.m.

Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald is downplaying what Republicans may do to limit powers of incoming Democratic Gov. Tony Evers before he takes ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A $100 million tax break bill designed to keep paper products giant Kimberly-Clark Corp. from closing an Appleton-area plant will get a public hearing in the Legislature, but approval remains uncertain.

The Assembly passed the bill earlier this year but it stalled in ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin state Sen. Scott Fitzgerald has been re-elected as majority leader, two days after Republicans picked up a seat over Democrats.

Fitzgerald, of Juneau, was the unanimous choice Thursday and ran unopposed for the leadership position he’s held since 2011 when ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican leader in the Wisconsin Senate says support is “unanimous” among GOP senators for guaranteeing that people with pre-existing health conditions have access to health insurance.

Sen. Alberta Darling expressed confidence Tuesday after Senate Republican ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald seesawed Tuesday on whether his majority would pass a bill guaranteeing insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, first questioning whether there was enough support to do so before declaring a few hours ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new Kimberly-Clark lobbyist and his wife gave Republican legislators and their supporters more than $4,000 in late August, a little more than a month before GOP leaders decided to reconvene to consider tax incentives for the Texas-based papermaker, campaign finance reports ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on Wisconsin Legislature’s plans to return for vote on Kimberly-Clark tax break bill (all times local):

1:35 p.m.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he’d be open to considering other bills during a post-election extraordinary legislative session to pass ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest prize for Nobel laureate Toni Morrison will be presented by Oprah Winfrey.

The Center for Fiction announced Thursday that Morrison will receive a lifetime achievement honor for “Excellence in Fiction.”

Winfrey, who has chosen such Morrison novels as “Song ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on work to reach incentive deal for Kimberly-Clark (all times local):

9:30 a.m.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says it would be easier to call the state Senate back to vote on an incentive package for Kimberly-Clark after the November election, but the ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican leader of the Wisconsin Senate said Wednesday that the state’s juvenile prison has “been a mess for some time” and that Gov. Scott Walker’s administration should have done more to fix the problems earlier.

Walker’s response to allegations of inmate abuse ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on Wisconsin governor’s race (all times local):

11:35 a.m.

Republican legislative leaders say there’s no evidence that state Superintendent Tony Evers led the charge to change a state law making it easier to revoke licenses of problem ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Democratic and Republican leaders of the Wisconsin Senate are talking about a tax incentive package that could keep open a pair of Kimberly-Clark Corp. plants in northeast Wisconsin.

Democratic Leader Jennifer Shilling said Thursday she spoke briefly by phone with ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Seven years ago, at age 73, Sheila Plotkin stepped onto the glossy tiles of the Wisconsin State Capitol with a protest sign in hand and her husband by her side. She saw a sea of law enforcement.

Due to increased security, police officers escorted the couple and other ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Ethics Commission has selected a Florida attorney as its new leader.

The commission announced Thursday it has appointed Daniel Carlton Jr. as interim administrator. He’ll serve out the remainder of a four-year term that expires in mid-2019. He’ll make ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — As she sat in the house where “Great Gatsby” writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, once lived, a visitor contemplated the famous Jazz Age couple.

“I tried to imagine how maybe Scott would tell a joke and Zelda would laugh,” said Farong Zhu, a Fulbright ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin taxpayers footed a previously unknown $60,000 bill for an attorney to argue for 10 minutes before the U.S. Supreme Court in the state’s defense of a redistricting lawsuit, records obtained by The Associated Press show.

A summary of bills provided by the ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Senate’s top Republican said Friday he wants to shut down two Dodge County strip clubs in his district in the wake of a federal human trafficking investigation.

Christopher Childs of Hartford was charged March 28 in federal court with sex trafficking, fraud ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Senate plans to take up a bill next week that would change election law after a judge ordered Gov. Scott Walker to hold special elections to fill two vacant legislative seats.

Under the proposal, the governor would no longer be required to call special ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans refused Friday to accept a court order to hold special elections to fill two vacant legislative seats, calling lawmakers back to Madison to rewrite election laws in an extraordinary session.

Legislators returned to their districts to campaign this ...