For months after he came in contact with an inmate's blood during a struggle at the prison where he works, Dan Meehan wondered if he had been exposed to the HIV virus.

Dodge County Judge Steven Bauer called a Lomira man convicted of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl "warped" before sentencing him Friday to 13 years in prison.

JUNEAU -A 61-year-old former Lomira resident accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl is going to prison.

It would be going too far, I suppose, to call ourselves latter-day "vigilantes." We docile and uber-friendly Wisconsinites are more easterners than westerners that way.

Gov. Jim Doyle has signed into law a bill that will make it easier for poor people to be represented by public defenders.

Despite a four-year-old law requiring Wisconsin government to post contract information online for public review, the state is one of the worst in the country at doing so, a national government research group says.