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n Wisconsin’s war against drunk driving, Sen. Alberta Darling has been a consistent crusader.
Two Republican legislators are gearing up for another try at toughening the notoriously weak drunken driving laws in Wisconsin, where pounding booze is hard-wired into the culture – and drunken driving kills scores every year.
A woman accused of driving drunk and causing a crash that killed her husband will stand trial in Vernon County.
A proposed expansion of ignition interlock devices to include all first-time offense drunken drivers has some legal professionals concerned by a potential loss of court discretion and increased litigation of low-level offenses.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man already charged with drunken driving now faces a second charge after he allegedly drove himself to his court appearance while intoxicated. A Wisconsin State Journal report says 50-year-old Russell Lambert of Windsor appeared in Dane County court Friday. Madison police say a bailiff smelled alcohol on his breath [...]
The maximum penalty for armed robbery is not just a prison term, but a fine of $100,000.
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — Bond has been set at $250,000 in La Crosse County for a driver accused of driving drunk and causing a crash that killed a woman and injured four others. According to police reports, Jesse Herrmann was intoxicated when he slammed his pickup truck into a car that was turning off [...]
WASHBURN, Wis. (AP) — A northwestern Wisconsin man has been arrested for a 10th time on suspicion of driving drunk. Sixty-two-year-old James Knuuttila of Iron River was stopped by a state trooper last Friday and booked into the Bayfield County Jail. He was charged Monday with having an open intoxicant in his vehicle and driving [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Madison-area teenager has been sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison for driving drunk in the wrong highway lane and causing a crash that killed a woman and seriously injured her boyfriend. Dane County Judge Maryann Sumi said 18-year-old Nathan Zander made a series of bad decisions that led to the [...]
Otto von Bismarck is frequently attributed with saying that no man should see how laws or sausages are made.
