A Wisconsin Assembly committee is scheduled to vote this week on a package of bills that would impose stiffer sanctions on drunken drivers.

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A Mequon man has been acquitted of drunken driving because the officer who arrested him more than eight years ago acknowledged he no longer remembers key details of the case.

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Democrats challenged a pair of Republican lawmakers Thursday to prove measures for tougher drunken driving penalties would actually make a difference, demanding to see statistics and data that would justify the bills' costs.

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The public will get a chance to sound off this week on a new set of bills that would create tougher penalties for drunken drivers.

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The time has come to admit we are too lax on drunken driving in Wisconsin. That admission alone, however, will do little to alleviate the problem. Action is required.

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A Wisconsin state senator has renewed her call for a 10-year minimum sentence in fatal drunken driving cases after one motorist received only 90 days in jail.

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Two Republican legislators started moving a package of proposals through the state Assembly on Thursday to toughen Wisconsin's drunken driving penalties.

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A Sparta man has been sentenced to five years in prison for driving drunk in a car crash that killed his brother.

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A Wisconsin lawyer has pleaded guilty to his fifth drunken driving offense.

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A man is facing his 8th drunken driving charge in Wisconsin.

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A legislative committee has approved a bill that would ensure repeat drunken drivers spend time behind bars.

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A legislative committee is scheduled to vote this week on a bill that would ensure repeat drunken drivers spend time behind bars.

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A Republican bill that would ensure repeat drunken drivers spend time behind bars generated surprisingly little opposition at public hearing Thursday.

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Former Sheboygan Mayor Bob Ryan has pleaded not guilty to drunken driving.

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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.

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A judge has sentenced a 41-year-old man to 17 years in prison for a drunken driving crash in Milwaukee that killed two pedestrians.

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A jury has acquitted former state Sen. Randy Hopper of first-offense drunken driving.

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A state appeals court says Wisconsin's drunken driving laws apply on frozen lakes.

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A Sheboygan teenager accused in a fatal hit-and-run drunken driving crash has reached a plea agreement.

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WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — A man accused of killing his wife and daughter in a drunken driving crash in central Wisconsin has been found not guilty. Jurors in Marathon County deliberated for seven hours before clearing Travis Ploman on four ...

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee point guard Kaylon Williams has been arrested in his hometown of Cedar Rapids on suspicion of drunken driving. The Cedar Rapids Gazette reported that Williams was arrested early Wednesday after police say ...

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MARINETTE, Wis. (AP) — Marinette city officials have hired two attorneys to possibly help remove the mayor after his drunken driving arrest earlier this month. Mayor Bob Harbick was arrested after his sports utility vehicle struck a light pole. WFRV-TV ...

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JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — The man who disappeared from the hospital after he was accused of driving drunk and causing a crash that killed two people has been found in Janesville. Police say they got a tip on the whereabouts ...

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By Kimberly Atkins Lawyers USA The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court tussled Monday with the limits of the exclusionary rule when the police conduct a search in a way that is lawful at the time, but later deemed unconstitutional ...

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MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — A Manitowoc man has been sentenced to 12 years for his 12th drunken driving offense. According to the Herald Times Reporter, 49-year-old Daniel Frisch was sentenced last month to seven years of initial confinement, followed by ...

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