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    January 9, 2019
    Minnesota enforcement campaign nets more drunken drivers
    ST. PAUL - More than 300 law enforcement agencies across Minnesota combined to make 2,757 arrests for drunken driving during a holiday enforcement...
    news/crime-and-courtsJanuary 9, 2019 - 11:39am
    December 28, 2018
    The National Safety Council is projecting that there will be 438 roadway fatalities and 49,900 injuries across the country over the extended New Year's holiday weekend. Stock image
    North Dakota, Minnesota on opposite ends of drunken-driving fatalities per capita list
    A timely reminder as New Year's Eve - a holiday known for drinking - looms.
    news/crime-and-courtsDecember 28, 2018 - 5:07pm
    September 12, 2018
    Extra enforcement leads to 1,369 drunken driving arrests in Minnesota
    ST. PAUL -- The arrest of one woman with a blood-alcohol content of 0.21 driving to a dentist’s office with her 3-year-old child in Alexandria...
    news/crime-and-courtsSeptember 12, 2018 - 11:42am
    July 31, 2018
    Marybeth Lonnee says on Tuesday, July 31, 2018, that the death of her grandson, 8-year-old Alan Geisenkoetter Jr., inspired her to fight for keeping drunken drivers out of the driver's seat of cars, boats, snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles and other motorized devices. The boy was hit by a man whose driver's license was revoked for drunken driving violations. Don Davis / Forum News Service
    New Minnesota law extends drunken driving restrictions to recreational vehicles
    ST. PAUL—Minnesotans operating recreational vehicles such as boats, all-terrain vehicles, jet skis, snowmobiles and other powered vehicles...
    news/government-and-politicsJuly 31, 2018 - 4:04pm
    July 13, 2018
    State Rep. Bob Loonan, R-Shakopee
    Minnesota legislator facing drunken driving charges
    SHAKOPEE, Minn. -- A Minnesota state legislator is facing drunken driving charges. Minnesota Public Radio reported that the 57-year-old state...
    news/crime-and-courtsJuly 13, 2018 - 6:37pm
    May 2, 2018
    A large blue banner made one of the main points of Water Action Day at the Minnesota Capitol on Wednesday, May 2, 2018. Don Davis / Forum News Service
    One Minnesota water issue mellows as rally begins
    ST. PAUL — Minnesota water advocates gathered at the Capitol for their annual Clean Water Action Day when at least one water controversy...
    news/government-and-politicsMay 2, 2018 - 5:31pm
    April 3, 2018
    Wrong-way driver in Duluth I-35 crash was on probation for DWI: Donations sought for victims
    DULUTH—Relatives of the mother and daughter killed in a wrong-way, head-on crash on Interstate 35 in Duluth are asking for donations to...
    news/accidentsApril 3, 2018 - 7:46pm
    March 21, 2018
    House panel approves DUI bill to eliminate snowmobile 'loophole': Offenders would be prohibited from driving
    ST. PAUL—By a unanimous vote and with no one speaking against it, a bill that would make it illegal to use a snowmobile for a year after any drunken driving conviction passed through another key committee at the Minnesota Capitol on Wednesday. Currently, state law takes away...
    news/government-and-politicsMarch 21, 2018 - 7:40pm
    March 20, 2018
    Work under the Minnesota Capitol dome has increased in recent days as deadlines approach for the 2018 edition of the Minnesota Legislature. Don Davis / Forum News Service
    MNLARS one of many bills lawmakers tackle near deadline
    ST. PAUL — Gov. Mark Dayton seldom says he would veto a bill, but if it reaches his desk he promises to veto House-passed legislation to...
    news/government-and-politicsMarch 20, 2018 - 4:41pm
    March 19, 2018
    Minnesota law officers make 424 St. Patrick’s weekend DWI arrests, up 28 percent
    ST. PAUL -- Drunken driving arrests were up 28 percent over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend in Minnesota compared to last year. Sgt. Jesse Grabow...
    news/crime-and-courtsMarch 19, 2018 - 3:00pm
    February 15, 2018
    Danny Bettcher. Submitted photo
    Most notorious drunken driver in Minn. with 28 DWI arrests sent to prison again
    Editor's Note: This story is from February 15, 2018. FERGUS FALLS, Minn.— Minnesota’s most notorious drunken driver -- arrested for DWI...
    news/crime-and-courtsFebruary 15, 2018 - 7:25pm
    September 27, 2017
    As Minnesota and Wisconsin grapple with solutions to further curb impaired driving, repeat drunken drivers continue to find their way onto the road. Youssef Rddad / RiverTown Multimedia.
    At a crossroads: Despite a similar number of impaired drivers, repeat offenders continue to slip through holes in the system
    NEW RICHMOND, Wis. — There's a difference between losing someone after a long illness and a death that occurs suddenly. Mark and Sue Riley...
    news/crime-and-courtsSeptember 27, 2017 - 9:29am
    September 13, 2017
    Minnesota drunken-driving crackdown included Ely driver too drunk to be booked
    DULUTH, Minn. — The Minnesota State Patrol on Wednesday, Sept. 13, reported the results of a recent two-week crackdown on drunken and other...
    newsSeptember 13, 2017 - 2:53pm
    January 11, 2017
    St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office deputy Ryan Fowler, shown in a 2015 photo. (RiverTown Multimedia file photo)
    Report: Wis. deputy assisting at ND pipeline protest drunk at helm of squad car
    A St. Croix County (Wis.) sheriff's deputy likely consumed at least 15 shots of vodka before getting behind the wheel of his squad, where he...
    newsJanuary 11, 2017 - 9:40am
    August 8, 2016
    COMMUNITY: New Facebook group aims to prevent drunken driving
    BEMIDJI--Two years after losing her parents to a drunk driver, one local woman is working to keep intoxicated individuals from getting behind the wheel. Alicia Collins, who lives between Bemidji and Cass Lake, created the Facebook group “Bemidji Area Designated Drivers 4 You”...
    newsAugust 8, 2016 - 5:40pm
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