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Officials: ‘Affluenza’ Teen, Mother Fled to Mexico, now Detained

A Texas sheriff said an arrest warrant will be issued for a Texas woman who was found with her son in Mexico, a teenager on probation after killing four people in a drunken-driving wreck and invoking an “affluenza” defense Tarrant …

Drunk-Driving Deaths Down 47% Since 2003 in Wisconsin

Fewer Wisconsinites are being hurt or killed in drunken-driving accidents. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says 185 people died in alcohol-related crashes last year โ€” down 47 percent since 2003. Injuries from those crashes have dropped 59 percent in the …