Alcohol
Barbara Walters' daughter charged with DUI in Fla.
The daughter of broadcast journalist Barbara Walters has been charged with driving under the influence in southwest Florida. The Collier County Sheriff's Office reports that 44-year-old Jacqueline Walters Danforth was arrested early Sunday and later released on $1,000 bail. Deputies reported finding Danforth and a male passenger in an SUV ...
Vt. teen pleads guilty in fatal crash
A St. Albans, Vt., teenager has changed his plea to guilty in a fiery drunken driving crash that killed his passenger. Seventeen-year-old James Companion pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one count of driving under the influence with death resulting. Twenty-year-old Tasha Maring of Colchester was killed when the car crashed ...
NY judge refuses to dismiss Kerry Kennedy case
Kerry Kennedy, the ex-wife of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is likely to go on trial in the fall after a town judge refused to dismiss a drugged-driving case against her Tuesday. Kennedy "cut a wide swath of danger and risk" on July 13 as she drove her Lexus on Interstate 684 ...
Woman pleads guilty to DUI in fatal DC car crash
A District of Columbia woman has pleaded guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and driving under the influence as a result of a fatal traffic accident in late April. The U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. says 49-year-old Maria N. Werts pleaded guilty Tuesday. According to prosecutors, Werts was drinking malt ...
1 killed, 1 hospitalized in Monroe County crash
Monroe County sheriff's officials say a man has died after being partially ejected from a truck when it overturned. Sheriff's spokeswoman Allison Selman-Willis says 56-year-old Michael Wayne Lindler was nearly thrown from the passenger side window of a truck being driven by 46-year-old Jonathan Elijah Watson early Tuesday morning. Authorities ...
Excerpts of editorials from Illinois newspapers
Chicago Sun-Times May 19, 2013 How to enjoy a drink without driving drunk If you were a 120-pound woman and drank more than just a single beer within 90 minutes before hitting the road, would it be fair if the cops charged you with drunken driving? What if you were ...
Georgia editorial roundup
Recent editorials from Georgia newspapers: May 17 The Augusta Chronicle on the importance of reading: We hope we're not misreading state officials, but they sure seem to be misreading Augusta. Reading between the lines of Georgia Board of Regents Chancellor Hank Huckaby's remarks to the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce ...
Seattle waives backup QB Josh Portis
The Seattle Seahawks have waived backup quarterback Josh Portis a day after news surfaced of his arrest for driving under the influence earlier this month. The Seahawks announced the decision to cut Portis Tuesday morning. Portis was on the field and an active participant during the Seahawks' first OTA workout ...
Death in Zimbabwe results in unusual US charge
The facts laid out by prosecutors are plain: In 2008, a U.S. government employee on assignment in Zimbabwe drove through the capital of Harare in his government-issued Toyota Land Cruiser and struck and killed a 34-year-old Zimbabwe man. Prosecutors say the driver, Andrew Pastirik of Woodbridge, Va., was drunk when ...
Nebraska man pleads not guilty to crash charges
A 24-year-old Hershey man has pleaded not guilty to vehicular homicide and driving while intoxicated in a crash that killed a woman. North Platte television station KNOP-TV reports 9http://bit.ly/10iPzZR) that Micah Koch entered the plea Monday in Lincoln County District Court. Authorities say Koch was drunk when he crashed a ...
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