A Rochester man has been given a stayed six-year prison sentence but he will be required to spend a month in jail each year for the next seven years for driving drunk and crashing into another vehicle on I-90 in December 2018.
The Rochester Police Department and the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office are among the over 300 law enforcement agencies statewide that have signed up with the Minnesota State Patrol to stage a crackdown on impaired drivers through the holidays.
Drunk driving fatalities in the United States have been reduced by nearly 50% since the early 1980s, but drunk driving still remains a serious problem across America.
A Rochester man has entered into a plea agreement in a criminal case stemming from a drunk driving crash last December that occurred while he was on probation for a felony DUI conviction.
A Fillmore County man is being given a chance to avoid prison for his convictions stemming from a fatal traffic crash involving an Amish buggy last year.
Conditional bail was set at $50,000 for a Rochester man after he was formally arraigned in Goodhue County Court on two counts of criminal vehicular homicide.
A suburban Twin Cities man has admitted to a criminal vehicular homicide charge for driving drunk and killing a 911 dispatcher a little over a year ago.