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A Green Bay man has been sentenced to five years in prison for his 18th drunken-driving conviction.

A La Crosse man with a history of drunken driving has been sentenced to 66 years in prison for a crash that killed two people and severely injured two others.

A 73-year-old Green Bay man has been charged with his 18th drunken driving offense, after a crash Friday that took out power lines and caused an outage.

Yearly convictions for drunken driving and other related offenses dropped by nearly 18,000 in Wisconsin between 2004 and 2018, according to a report from the state Legislative Reference Bureau.

Missing records in a ninth-offense OWI case have the Wisconsin Supreme Court considering what constitutes enough proof to support a conviction.

Sheriff's officials say a driver is expected to face homicide charges in a Rock County crash that killed two people.

Police say a 17-year-old girl from Green Bay has been arrested for drunken driving after a crash on the Main Street Bridge flung her passenger into the river.

A Lake Delton man on parole for drunken driving is faced with his fifth intoxicated driving charge after crashing his motorcycle on Interstate 94 in Jefferson County.

A criminal complaint filed in Dane County says a teenage driver told police he was "kinda wasted" when he crashed a car into the back of a parked semi, killing his friend.

The state Assembly walked back a bill Thursday that would have allowed bars throughout Wisconsin to stay open later during the Democratic National Convention this summer, tweaking the proposal to allow extended hours only for taverns in the southeastern corner of the state before passing it on to the Senate.

A 52-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after striking at least 13 vehicles in the town of Lake Tomahawk, according to the Oneida County Sheriff's Office.

Repeat drunken drivers would spend more time behind bars under a bill the state Assembly passed overwhelmingly on Tuesday.

A split Wisconsin Supreme Court has reversed a decision on a subject-matter-jurisdiction dispute relating to an OWI case from Ozaukee County.

A case in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court questions when police officers have reasonable belief to conduct searches without warrants after an arrest.

Wisconsin public defenders are on pace to receive pay parity with state prosecutors. The state Senate on Tuesday passed an amended version of Senate Bill 468 to provide a pay-progression plan for assistant state public defenders.

Gov. Tony Evers has signed a Republican bill that stiffens penalties for drunken drivers who kill someone.

The state Senate has signed off on two bills that would stiffen drunken-driving penalties — and possibly generate millions of dollars in new prison costs.

The Marquette County Courthouse sounded like a math classroom during oral arguments in a Wisconsin Supreme Court case on Monday. The justices asked two attorneys appearing before them how they’d calculate fines in a felony OWI case involving a baby in a car and a blood alcohol concentration more than four times the legal limit.

A drunken driver who fled from a fatal crash in Milwaukee has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

Dane County sheriff's officials say they've arrested a Madison man for his tenth drunken-driving offense.

A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled that operating a riding mower while drunk carries the same penalties as driving a car while intoxicated.

Police say a man found passed out behind the wheel at an Eau Claire gas station is facing his 12th drunken driving charge.

A Minnesota woman has been sentenced to 7½ years in prison for driving drunk and causing a fatal crash in northeastern Wisconsin.

A Wisconsin man is facing his 10th drunken driving charge following a motorcycle crash.

A drunken driver with a six-year-old in the car nearly struck a Janesville police officer.

Drunken drivers who consent to a blood draw can't stop the state crime lab from analyzing the sample by withdrawing their permission, Wisconsin's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court says law enforcement officers can generally draw blood without a warrant from an unconscious person suspected of driving drunk or while on drugs.

The state Assembly has approved two bills that would stiffen drunken-driving penalties.

A panel of lawmakers is again scheduled to vote on proposals to change some of the state’s drunken-driving laws.