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A report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel explores the reality of gun violence in the state of Wisconsin as well as who it affects and what’s being done to prevent it.

Police say a man brought a handgun into the Wisconsin Capitol and demanded to see Gov. Tony Evers and returned at night with an assault rifle.

The man charged with killing seven people at an Independence Day parade confessed to police that he unleashed a hail of bullets from a rooftop in Highland Park, Illinois and then fled to the Madison area, where he contemplated shooting up an event there.

After the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, Lake Effect contributor Barbara Miner wanted to know what the process of buying a gun was like. Now, she wants to get rid of the gun and is finding it’s far more difficult to do than it was to purchase it.

Since the age of five, guns have always been present in Ramiah Whiteside's life. Now, he is working to help young Milwaukeeans escape gun violence.

The Milwaukee County Board has decided not to allow gun shows at the Sports Complex in Franklin, after all. The Board voted 13-3 Thursday to reject a proposal to revive the shows, which had been held biannually for years. The Board also voted to reduce fines for possessing 25 grams or less of marijuana to no more than $1.

Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, is facing charges for fatally shooting two people and injuring another during protests in Kenosha. Rittenhouse, who's from Illinois,…

Twenty-four people associated with a violent drug trafficking gang operating in a northeast Milwaukee neighborhood face federal charges, authorities said…

Updated at 3:39 p.m. CTA Wisconsin high school resource officer shot a 16-year-old student Tuesday after the boy stabbed him in his office, marking the…

Updated Tuesday at 4:17 p.m. CTA 17-year-old Waukesha South High School student was shot by a police officer on Monday morning after allegedly aiming a…