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.
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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.
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Read More »A drunken driver who fled from a fatal crash in Milwaukee has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
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Read More »Dane County sheriff's officials say they've arrested a Madison man for his tenth drunken-driving offense.
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A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled that operating a riding mower while drunk carries the same penalties as driving a car while intoxicated.
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Police say a man found passed out behind the wheel at an Eau Claire gas station is facing his 12th drunken driving charge.
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Read More »A Minnesota woman has been sentenced to 7½ years in prison for driving drunk and causing a fatal crash in northeastern Wisconsin.
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Read More »A Wisconsin man is facing his 10th drunken driving charge following a motorcycle crash.
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A drunken driver with a six-year-old in the car nearly struck a Janesville police officer.
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Read More »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.
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Read More »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.
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Read More »The state Assembly has approved two bills that would stiffen drunken-driving penalties.
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A panel of lawmakers is again scheduled to vote on proposals to change some of the state’s drunken-driving laws.
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Read More »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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