Alcohol
Albuquerque officer involved in fatal crash fired
The Albuquerque police officer facing criminal charges for a February crash that killed a 21-year-old woman has been fired, Police Chief Ray Schultz said Friday. Schultz said Sgt. Adam Casaus was terminated after an internal probe found he violated several sections of department protocol in the late-night accident. The Bernalillo ...
Man gets 10 years for fatal DUI crash
A Tampa Bay area man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaving the scene after a drunken driving crash. A Hillsborough County judge sentenced 29-year-old Hank Tippins on Friday after he pleaded guilty to DUI manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident. He had faced up ...
Wis. gov didn't know of ex-aide's drunken driving
Gov. Scott Walker says he wasn't aware of his former campaign spokeswoman's drunken driving citations. Twenty-five-year old Nicole Tieman pleaded guilty to her second OWI offense in Milwaukee on Wednesday and was sentenced to 20 days in jail. She had already been convicted in March of operating with a prohibited ...
Woman charged with DUI after police car sideswiped
A 29-year-old woman faces a felony DUI charge after the vehicle she was driving reportedly sideswiped a Missoula police car. Court records say Kristy Lee Augare was supposed to have an interlock device on her car that prevents it from moving if she's intoxicated, but there was no such device ...
NHP seizes 159 lbs. pot from I-80 moving truck
The Nevada Highway Patrol has seized more than 150 pounds of marijuana from the driver of a moving truck stopped on Interstate 80 near Winnemucca. Troopers say they smelled alcohol when they pulled over 33-year-old Earl Pointer of California while driving a Penske moving truck on Thursday. He failed a ...
Pa. woman charged in hit-and-run that killed teen
Authorities in suburban Philadelphia say a motorist was drunk and reading a text message when she fatally struck a teenager in a hit-and-run accident. Officials announced charges Friday against 31-year-old Sarah Ann Derstein of Lansdale. She is charged with homicide by vehicle, driving under the influence of alcohol, and other ...
Brewers team up on beer to help military families
Craft breweries from around the country are toasting the troops with a beer aged with a unique ingredient that symbolizes America's pastime — baseball bats. Nine different brewers collaborated to create Homefront IPA, all using the same recipe, complete with orange peel and unfinished maple Louisville Sluggers. Toward the end ...
Peabody man faces drunken driving charge
A Peabody man is headed to court to face drunken driving and vehicular homicide charges in connection with a crash that took the life of his passenger. A spokeswoman for the Essex district attorney's office 37-year-old Michael Fowler was behind the wheel of a vehicle that struck a parked flat-bed ...
Q&A: On Turkey's proposed alcohol restrictions
A look at legislation passed in Turkey's parliament early Friday that would ban all alcohol advertising and tighten restrictions on the sale of such beverages, and how such a law could affect tourists and liquor companies in the mainly Muslim but secular country. Q: What happened? A: Tempers flared and ...
Judge declines to dismiss lawsuit
A federal judge won't dismiss a lawsuit that argues the city of West Point and a local nightclub are liable for injuries to an underage driver, who authorities say was driving while intoxicated after drinking at the club. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports (http://bit.ly/11f63NZ ) that U.S. District Judge ...
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