A committee of state Assembly lawmakers are schedule to vote on a group of bills related to drunken driving, including one that would require court appearances for citations issued for driving while intoxicated.
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Read More »Authorities say speeds during an interstate chase in Sheboygan County reached 115 miles an hour before the fleeing driver crashed into a squad car, a tree and two parked vehicles.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with a Wisconsin law that allows law-enforcement officials to draw blood without a warrant from suspected drunken drivers who have become unconscious.
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Read More »A man accused of driving drunk, killing a pedestrian and fleeing from the scene in Waupaca County is sentenced to five years in prison.
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Read More »State Assembly lawmakers are scheduled to hear public testimony on legislation that would both require drunken drivers to appear in court and make a first-time drunken driving offense a crime.
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Read More »Democratic legislators are proposing a bill that would require all first-time drunken drivers to use ignition interlock devices.
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Read More »A Dodgeville man arrested after an off-duty firefighter was killed while assisting a disabled motorist along a Dane County highway won't be charged with homicide by drunken driving.
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A Wisconsin man is facing at least his 10th drunken driving charge.
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Read More »A Waunakee woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for striking a pedestrian while driving drunk in Madison, leading to the person's death.
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Read More »Two Republican legislators are continuing their quest to crack down on drunken driving, reintroducing bills Thursday that would make a first offense a crime and impose stiffer penalties on repeat offenders.
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Read More »A 40-year-old Wisconsin man has been arrested for fifth offense operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
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Read More »A Waunakee woman has pleaded no contest to homicide by drunken driving in the death of a University of Wisconsin student.
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Read More »Dane County sheriff's officials say a deputy arrested the same woman twice for drunken driving within an hour and a-half.
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A Neenah man is facing another drunken driving charge after crashing into a Winnebago County sheriff's vehicle.
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The Sheriff’s Office of Door County recently installed two automated breathalyzer kiosks at the Door County Justice Center in Sturgeon Bay and has begun using them to conduct daily alcohol screening of offenders participating in the Huber Work Release program.
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Read More »A 42-year-old Wisconsin man has been arrested for fifth offense operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
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The state Supreme Court says police can legally draw blood from unconscious drunken drivers.
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Read More »A Madison woman was arrested twice in three hours for drunken driving.
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Read More »A man with three drunken-driving convictions is charged with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle in the death of a pedestrian who was struck and killed in Milwaukee earlier this week.
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A man accused of driving drunk and killing a mother and daughter walking along a road in Brown County has been convicted.
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Read More »A 64-year-old man is accused of driving drunk for the 14th time since 1994 after crashing his car in Waupaca County.
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Read More »A Keshena man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in a fatal crash on the Menominee Indian Reservation.
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Read More »Two young children were hurt when they fell from a van driven by their father who was arrested for drunken driving in Sheboygan.
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Read More »A driver who was drunk and on drugs when he struck and killed a University of Wisconsin-Madison student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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Read More »A 52-year-old Edgerton man has been arrested on suspicion of driving drunk for a seventh time.
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Read More »Racine County sheriff's officials say a self-serve breath test kiosk is giving some offenders the chance to serve their sentences outside the walls of the jail.
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The Senate judiciary committee has signed off on four bills that would impose tougher drunken driving penalties.
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When the Tavern League of Wisconsin supports a bill to "crack down" on repeat drunken drivers, that's probably a sign the measure doesn't go far enough to address the problem.
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The facts, as laid out in an Associated Press report published Sept. 4 in The Journal Times, are shocking and horrifying.
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