A Janesville man is under arrest on suspicion of his fourth OWI offense.

Tagged with: drunken driving

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded an attorney for racking up 11 traffic tickets and violating his probation for a drunken driving arrest in Minnesota, thus violating the conditions of his admission to practice law in both states.

Tagged with: drunken driving OLR Wisconsin Supreme Court

A Janesville man has been charged with his 10th drunken driving offense after authorities say he was found asleep at the wheel while sitting at a traffic light.

Tagged with: drunken driving

The Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Court of Appeals in a decision that would have remanded a case to the circuit court in order to expose a drunken driver to a higher maximum sentence.

Tagged with: Bench Blog Brian Blanchard drunken driving Gary Sherman Jean DiMotto JoAnne Kloppenburg Patrick Crooks Wisconsin Supreme Court

An Oshkosh man has been sentenced to 23 years in prison after he was accused of driving drunk and causing a crash that killed a woman in another vehicle.

Tagged with: drunken driving

A Sheldon man who was convicted in a drunken driving crash that killed an Illinois deer hunter has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Tagged with: drunken driving

A northwestern Wisconsin woman is being charged with her ninth drunken driving offense after authorities say she was found unresponsive with her foot on the brake of an SUV with two little girls in back.

Tagged with: drunken driving

A Janesville woman is accused of her tenth drunken driving offense after police say she was too intoxicated to perform a field sobriety test.

Tagged with: drunken driving

Police in Sturtevant say a man was more than four times over the legal limit when he was arrested for his 10th drunken driving offense.

Tagged with: drunken driving

The Legislature's budget-writing committee has approved cutting $731,000 in grant funding to treat drunken drivers as Gov. Scott Walker proposed.

Tagged with: drunken driving Scott Walker

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling and reinstated a fourth drunken driving conviction against a Madison-area man.

Tagged with: drunken driving Fourth Amendment Wisconsin Supreme Court

State Rep. Jim Ott keeps fighting the good fight against Wisconsin's drunken driving scourge.

Tagged with: drunken driving Jim Ott

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has upheld the drunken driving conviction in a case where Justice David Prosser withdrew after he or his staff apparently contacted the state crime lab for information.

Tagged with: David Prosser drunken driving Wisconsin Supreme Court

The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a state law making it illegal for suspected drunken drivers to refuse a breath test.

Tagged with: ACLU drunken driving Minnesota Supreme Court

An Appleton man has been arrested for his 12th drunken driving offense.

Tagged with: drunken driving

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, is talking about "unreasonably long sentences" that "may actually make people more likely to return to crime."

Tagged with: Brad Schimel drunken driving

Wisconsin is wise to pursue improving technology — in cars and at treatment clinics — to fight its drunken driving scourge.

Tagged with: drunken driving

The ferocity of an alcohol addiction is apparent in the case of Frank Zdzieblowski, a 73-year-old Portage County man who was charged with operating a motor vehicle with a prohibited blood alcohol concentration as a sixth offense less than five months after he was charged with fifth offense intoxicated driving.

Tagged with: Bench Blog District 4 Court of Appeals drunken driving Jean DiMotto JoAnne Kloppenburg Thomas Flugaur

Some chronic drunken drivers in Wisconsin spend little time behind bars on felony charges due to lenient sentencing.

Tagged with: Donald Zuidmulder drunken driving Jim Ott OWI

A Merrill woman convicted of driving drunk and causing a crash that killed two friends and injured a third has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

Tagged with: drunken driving

An Amherst woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for a fatal drunk driving crash.

Tagged with: drunken driving

Prosecutors say a Wisconsin man sent to prison for his eighth drunken driving conviction told investigators he had gotten behind the wheel while intoxicated hundreds of times.

Tagged with: drunk driving drunken driving

A motorized bicycle is considered a motor vehicle, at least for the purposes of a drunken driving charge, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

Tagged with: drunken driving Michael Bohren Paul Lundsten

A drunken driver who struck and killed a man plowing snow in Eau Claire County and fled the scene has been sentenced to four years in prison.

Tagged with: drunken driving

Outagamie County will use alcohol detection bracelets to monitor repeat drunken drivers in a special court program.

Tagged with: drunken driving

A 60-year-old Oneida man will get a new trial on a drunken driving charge after a defense witness got into an argument with two jurors.

Tagged with: drunken driving

A Wisconsin man was sentenced Monday to nearly 10 years in prison for leading police on a drunken driving chase that ended in a near-fatal crash.

Tagged with: drunken driving

A Stevens Point man has been sentenced to five years in prison for his 10th drunken driving offense.

Tagged with: drunken driving OWI Thomas Eagon

A recent change in Wisconsin's drunken driving laws is making it harder for prosecutors to pursue criminal charges for some drunken crashes.

Tagged with: drunken driving Jim Ott Jon Richards Kurt Klomberg

Wisconsin law requires judges to sentence chronic drunken drivers to at least three years behind bars, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

Tagged with: David Prosser drunken driving Wisconsin Supreme Court