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Alcohol is believed to have played a role in an accident where a car crashed into a Waterford couple’s living room March 30. According to an article in the Mukwanago Chief said the alleged drunk driver was believed to be an administrator at the Norris Adolescent Center, a center providing drug abuse and alcohol abuse treatments….

Nine Wisconsin adults have been sickened in a national salmonella outbreak that began in February. According to reports, four of the affected people are from Milwaukee County and five are from Waukesha County. The outbreak has affected 93 people in 19 states as well as the District of Columbia. All eight residents who were…

Two teenagers were killed and a third was injured in an early-morning crash Wednesday in Manitowoc County. According to reports, two 16-year-olds, one male and one female were killed when the driver of the car they were in lost control and hit a large tree. They were both airlifted to hospitals, where they were…

A Madison woman was charged last week with drunk driving after she allegedly hit a man who was riding a moped, killing him. Twenty-seven-year-old Ekaterina Topolkaraeva allegedly caused the accident last October when she drove in the wrong lane of a Beltline frontage road, killing a 37-year-old Madison man. Officials allege Topolkaraeva had injected…

Two New Franken teenagers were killed when their vehicle overturned in a creek this week. According to officials, two 16-year-olds were killed when their car ran off the road in Scott about 3:30 p.m. Monday. The teenagers were apparently heading north on Highway 57 when they attempted a right-hand turn onto Church Road. The…

One student was injured when his school bus crashed Friday afternoon in Walworth County. According to reports, five students from Bigfoot High School were on board the bus just before 3 p.m. Friday on Beloit Road near Prairie View Road in Walworth when the bus driver lost control of the vehicle and it ended…

 One person has died and five were injured in a weekend snowmobile accident. According to reports, the 45-year-old man was killed when the snowmobile broke the ice on Beaver Dam Lake, which is near Madison. Officials said the snowmobilers were heading north on the lake when they hit open water. Some of the people…

An eight-year-old girl from Fort Atkinson was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Milton. According to officials, a vehicle carrying four people, including the 8-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy was hit by another vehicle driven by a 55-year-old from Janesville. The eight-year-old was pronounced dead at a local hospital and the 5-year-old boy…

The man who hit and killed a wheelchair bound man last January in Green Bay with his truck before fleeing the scene was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday. Forty-year-old Mark Sperber was convicted last November in the 20-year-old man’s death. Sperber had told investigators he thought he had hit a trash can,…

Proposed changes to current laws would increase the severity of consequences for operating recreational vehicles while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. According to a recent article published on jsonline.com, alcohol is involved in about 75 percent of snowmobile fatalities yearly in Wisconsin. A public hearing was held Tuesday discussing an Assembly bill, which would…