His lawyer says the Carlton County Attorney has checked into the Hazelden treatment center. His blood alcohol content was three times the legal limit to drive when he was pulled over earlier this month. The County Board of Commissioners is still awaiting word on if and when he plans to return to work.

A Fergus Falls man was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday for a felony DWI conviction. Richard Papenfuss, 62, has over 20 DWI arrests on his record and has already served prison time for a previous DWI. In the Twin Cities, a Plymouth woman was arrested Thursday morning for probable cause DWI. She had already served prison time for hitting a killing a man in 2010.

Wisconsin State Patrol officials say a 38-year-old man was arrested on his sixth driving-while-intoxicated charge after he struck a tractor pulling a hay wagon that was carrying several passengers, WCCO reports.

I'll give you one guess for what. You got it. Attorney Samuel Surface was arrested early Friday morning after police administered a roadside blood alcohol test and the litigator registered at twice the legal limit.

The consequences for a DWI include loss of a driver’s license for up to a year, higher insurance rates and possible jail time. According to the Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety, one in seven drivers in the state has a DWI on record.

Annie Stensrud, who some people suspect was drunk on the air following an awkward newscast that went viral on the Internet, has been charged with a DWI following her arrest on suspicion of drunken driving weeks after the news segment. Police say she had a blood-alcohol level of .31 just over an hour after her arrest.

The man accused of drunken driving in the fatal crash that killed infant son of a Minnesota coach had blood-alcohol content more than four times the state's legal limit 0.08 percent, according to charges. The West Central Tribune reported the contents of the criminal complaint, which said Dana Schoen, 38, had a blood alcohol content level of 0.351 percent.