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Brother of Former Sen. John Edwards Sentenced to Jail The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Former senator John Edwards' younger brother will spend 60 days in a Colorado jail after pleading guilty to a decade-old drunken driving charge. Wesley Blake Edwards, 40, was pulled over in a Denver suburb in late 1993 and charged with driving under the influence, careless driving and operating a vehicle without a license. Edwards, who lost his license after three drunken driving convictions, failed to show up in an Arapahoe County, Colo., courtroom in 1994. The charges resurfaced when his brother, then a U.S....

Wesley Blake Edwards — better known as the kid brother of vice presidential nominee John Edwards — is scheduled to go on trial today in Colorado, answering 10-year-old charges of driving while intoxicated. Wesley Edwards has been arrested on numerous occasions for driving drunk. He has skipped out of court appearances. So, while he finally faces the music, political junkies must be wondering: Is he Roger Clinton lite? Or perhaps the second coming of Billy Carter? Democrats would probably like to sweep Wesley Edwards under the rug. They shouldn't, for two reasons: John Edwards' tribulations with his younger sibling only...

Wesley Edwards, the brother of presumptive Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards, was convicted of driving drunk in Waterville (Maine)in 1990. Wesley Edwards reported to authorities in Colorado this week on a 1993 drunken driving arrest for which he failed to appear in court. He turned himself in after the New York Daily News reported that he has been wanted in Colorado for more than 10 years and that over the past 20 years he had been involved in two accidents and received 14 tickets in five states.

Few would suspect that the portly, rough-and-ready Wesley Blake Edwards, 39, is the younger brother of John Edwards, the svelte US vice-presidential nominee on the Democratic ticket. Fewer still will have heard of Wesley, an electrician who has become a minor embarrassment to his famous and wealthy sibling. After failing to appear on a drink-driving charge more than 10 years ago, according to state records, he is still wanted by police in Colorado. After drink-driving convictions in 1985, 1987 and 1990, Mr Edwards's driving licence was permanently revoked and he spent a week in prison. Last August he pleaded guilty...

DENVER - The brother of Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards (news - web sites) pleaded innocent Monday to a 10-year-old charge of driving under the influence and was released on $5,000 bail pending trial. Wesley Blake Edwards was allowed to return to his home in Fuquay-Varina, N.C., said Mike Knight, spokesman for the Arapahoe County district attorney's office. A motions hearing was scheduled for Nov. 4 and a trial for Nov. 29. As a condition of his release, Edwards was ordered not to drink alcohol or drive without a license . Edwards, 39, an electrician, was arrested in suburban...

DENVER - The younger brother of vice presidential candidate John Edwards (news - web sites) is wanted on a Colorado warrant issued a decade ago in a drunken driving case. Wesley Blake Edwards, a 39-year-old electrician who lives in Fuquay-Varina, N.C., was arrested on Nov. 4, 1993, for allegedly driving under the influence, careless driving and driving without insurance, said Drew Grant, spokesman for the 18th Judicial District attorney's office. A warrant was issued in early 1994, after he failed to appear in court in suburban Arapahoe County on the charges, Grant said Friday. Attorneys for Edwards contacted the district...

(FUQUAY-VARINA) -- The News and Observer of Raleigh reports that the younger brother of Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards is wanted in Colorado for failing to appear on a drunken-driving charge from 1994. State records in Colorado show that Wesley Blake Edwards was supposed to report to court in January 1994. When he didn't, a warrant was issued for his arrest. The newspaper reports that Wesley Blake Edwards, a union electrician who lives in Fuquay-Varina, was charged with driving under the influence, careless driving and operating a vehicle without insurance. State Division of Motor Vehicle records show that, after...

Sen. John Edwards' little brother has an outstanding warrant for his arrest in Colorado and has thumbed his nose at more than $800 in fines for driving infractions. Wesley Blake Edwards, 39, has been a terror on the road for more than two decades. He has been arrested four times for drunken driving, twice been sentenced to a week in jail for DWI and lost his right to drive in four states. But even after his license was suspended and revoked, he repeatedly got back behind the wheel - only to be stopped by police again. He is currently a...

Sen. John Edwards strode through North Carolina's courtrooms in the 1980s and made his reputation as a lawyer. His little brother, Blake, saw plenty of courtrooms then, too - as a defendant. While his illustrious brother won legal victories and earned millions, Wesley Blake Edwards racked up speeding tickets, license suspensions and impaired-driving convictions. In 1987, he served seven days in jail for driving under the influence. Three years later, he permanently lost his driver's license when he was arrested for driving under the influence for a third time. Despite being banned from driving, Blake Edwards was pulled over in...