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BARABOO, WIs. (AP) — A La Crosse man with a history of drunken driving has been...

A La Crosse man with a history of drunken driving has been sentenced to 66 years in prison for a crash that killed two people and severely injured two others.

BRIDGET COOKE Capital Newspapers After four days of trial and roughly six hours of deliberation, a jury found 58-year-old Albart B. Shores of La Crosse guilty on all 15 counts he faced as the result of a double fatal crash in October 2018. Shores, formerly of Onalaska, was accused of causing the death of two men and severely injuring two others after hitting their 2009 GMC Yukon while driving a 2002 Volkswagen Golf. Shores and his passengers, then 23-year-old Shaquita V. Fajr, 19-year-old Tanganika Barber and a 2-year-old child, were uninjured. The trial opened Monday with court a...

BRIDGET COOKE Capital Newspapers In the first jury trial held in Sauk County Circuit Court in more than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic took over Wisconsin, the attorney for the accused told a jury as it sat behind plexiglass dividers that his client did not cause a car crash that resulted in the deaths of two people and injuries of another two. Albart B. Shores, 58, of La Crosse, faces 15 felony charges in relation to a traffic crash in October 2018 that resulted in the deaths of two people. They include homicide by use of a vehicle, injury by use of a vehicle, driving while i...