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A woman was arrested for homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle after a crash that took the life of her 54-year-old husband. According to officials, the 53-year-old woman was driving eastbound on State Highway 82 when she lost control while going around a curve about 7 p.m. Wednesday even...

Derrick Ashford has been charged with knowingly operating a motor vehicle without a valid license, causing death. According to reports, Ashford allegedly struck and killed the boy as he attempted to cross the street. The accident occurred April 17 and Ashford did remain on the scene for questioni...

A 27-year-old woman was killed Friday night when a school bus collided with a SUV in Milwaukee. According to reports, the crash happened about 7:45 p.m. Friday at N. 20th and W. Highland Ave. Two people were in the bus at the time, a driver and a student, and one was in the SUV. The victim appear...

A child is in grave condition after being hit by a minivan Tuesday afternoon in Milwaukee. According to reports, the 6-year-old darted out in traffic near N. 51st just before 5:30 Tuesday afternoon, on the city's north side. Initially the boy was reported dead, but it was corrected to say he was ...

​The Grayslake police chief was charged with drunk driving after a Wisconsin crash involving him and his wife a week-and-a-half ago. According to officials, Matt McCutcheon was turning onto Route 45 in Silver Lake, Wis. about 10 p.m. March 30 when he struck another car. Forty-six-year-old McCutch...

​WOMAN LANDS PLANE AFTER HUSBAND DIES PILOTING IT An eighty-year-old woman landed a plane after her husband died at the controls in northeastern Wisconsin Monday. According to officials, the 80-year-old woman had not flown that type of plane and hadn't flown in 30 years when she had to take over ...

A 58-year-old Altoona man was cited for his 11th OWI after allegedly passing a school bus on the right, striking a mailbox and a hit-and-run crash. According to reports, a Bruce School District bus driver was letting children off Friday afternoon when she noticed a Pontiac Sunfire passing the bus...

A 22-year-old woman is in critical condition after being hit by a hit-and-run driver early Thursday morning. According to police, the woman was crossing North Avenue when a black sedan that was heading south on Farwell Avenue struck her and continued driving. She was taken to a local hospital and...

A south side Milwaukee preschooler was killed Sunday when a television fell on her. According to reports, the girl was attempting to change the channel on the 32-inch TV, which was atop a dresser. She scaled the dresser and the TV came off the dresser and the dresser tipped over, hitting her and ...

An infant was killed Saturday afternoon when the car she was riding in was in an accident with another vehicle. According to reports, the two-month old infant was in an infant seat in the back of the car when her mother lost control of the northbound vehicle about 8:25 p.m. on Brown County Road R...

A Chippewa Falls man was arrested for an OWI – second offense after a crash he was involved in sent an 11-year-old girl to the hospital. According to reports, officials arrested Jason J. Przybylski after a crash at Highway 25 and Highway 48, just after 5 p.m. Saturday, February 18. Przybylski was...

Three teens were injured in Brown County Wednesday evening after a one-car accident that landed the vehicle in a ditch. According to officials, A 16-year-old Brillion teen, who was driving, is believed to have lost control of the vehicle. Officials said he was driving too fast for the foggy condi...

​Another teen has died after a crash in Fond du Lac that killed two others and injured six. The teen girls were all in an SUV early Saturday morning, February 4, when the driver lost control of the vehicle that then rolled several times before coming to rest in a field. Two of the girls who were ...

According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, 42 people were killed in Wisconsin traffic accidents during the first month of 2012, more than the previous three Januarys officials said Thursday. According to DOT, the number of fatalities was compared to 39 in January 2011, 20 January 20...

Two woman died after the car they were traveling in crashed with a tanker truck Thursday afternoon in Sheboygan County. According to reports, the crash occurred about 2:30 p.m. on Highway 57, just north of Highway C in Plymouth. The car had attempted to make a left turn in front of the southbound...

A man has been charged with an OWI after a Saturday evening crash on the Hoan Bridge that closed the road for more than an hour and caused a secondary crash. According to officials, the crash happened about 11:20 p.m. Saturday evening when a 51-year-old man was allegedly speeding north on the bri...

A Milwaukee man has been charged in a crash that critically injured a Milwaukee police officer on Christmas evening. According to reports, Officer Frank Vrtochnick was injured in a hit-and-run that occurred about 5:15 p.m. Christmas evening. The vehicle that hit him was driving on the wrong side ...

A 26-year-old Somerset snowmobiler died after falling through the ice on Flambeau River in Rush County on December 26. According to officials, Christopher Stanger attempted to drive over open water on the river about 2:15 p.m., where his snowmobile went under water, just south of Ladysmith, in th...

Federal Safety Investigators made an unprecedented move to recommend a total ban on cell phones while driving except for emergencies. These recommendations can about after several recent deadly distracted driving crashes. One that was analyzed occurred when a teen sent or received 11 text message...

A man who allegedly showed up to pick his 5-year-old son up from elementary school while intoxicated was charged with his fifth OWI. According to reports, the man was arrested last Tuesday at a Wauwatosa elementary school about 3:30 p.m. Officials said an alert crossing guard reported the man aft...

A Kenosha man died in a crash with a semi Monday morning. According to a Journaltimes.com article the 35-year-old man was driving westbound on Highway 20 at Route C when his vehicle collided with the rear of a semi trailer just after 8:30 a.m. The driver, Neil Voling, along with his dog were both...

A Green Bay man faces his fourth drunk driving offense in five years after falling asleep driving, waking up and crashing into a semi tractor trailer. According to reports, 39-year-old Jason Zirbel fell asleep while driving northbound on Interstate 43 at W. County Line Road and drove off the high...

Six teens were injured in a six-vehicle crash late Friday evening in Dodge County. According to reports, the teens were all riding in a Chevrolet Tahoe traveling southbound on Thompson Road in Beaver Dam, Wis. about 11:45 p.m. when the driver lost control and the SUV spun out of control. The SUV ...

A one-vehicle crash killed the driver Monday afternoon. According to reports, the pickup truck was westbound on I-94 at 39th Street about 2:15 p.m. when it hit a median wall. According to witness reports, the truck was on the wall for about 50 feet and then came to a stop after crashing into seve...

A proposed bill in front of the Legislature would require a coach to immediately remove any athlete who suffers a concussion and would prevent the athlete from playing until being properly evaluated. The bill, which has already been endorsed by an Assembly committee and is awaiting a vote there, ...