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LONG VIEW, NC (WBTV) - A mother had to shoot and kill her own son in what investigators are calling self defense early Friday morning. Long View police responded to 1st Avenue Place in Long View around 1 a.m. in reference to a shots fired call. When officers arrived they found 21-year-old Justin Barger shot dead in floor. Barger's parents told investigators they had poured out all the alcohol in the house after Barger became drunk. When his parents went to bed, Barger went into their bedroom and started assaulting them by pulling them out of bed and beating them...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) - Get ready to dig deeper to pay for that favorite bottle of wine or alcohol. Prices on hundreds of products at Pennsylvania's wine and spirits stores are going up. The Liquor Control Board on Wednesday voted unanimously to approve higher prices requested by the suppliers of more than 300 of the 30,000 products offered through the state store system. PLCB Chairman Patrick "PJ" Stapleton said the suppliers could have pulled their products without the increase. "The choice is - do we raise the price of Smirnoff and let the consumers decide or do we say there's...

Do these stomach crusaders, these modern day abolitionists, take no lesson from history? Top down societal engineering does not work. Especially not in this country. We the people won’t sit idly by and be rationed bread and water just because a bunch of rich politicians think we’re too fat and talk funny and believe grits are a real thing. The phrase “cold, dead fingers” comes to mind.

<p>Several employees at a plant in Detroit called Tower Defense and Aerospace were caught drinking booze and smoking marijuana during their afternoon break for lunch.</p> <p>Tower Defense and Aerospace makes armored parts for U.S. military trucks and planes. According to the WJBK-TV report the plant makes "parts for Humvees and Stryker combat vehicles destined for Afgahnistan and Iraq.</p>

How about forcing the manufacturers of alcoholic beverages to include graphic images of victims of alcohol-related fatal auto accidents on every purchase of a six-pack of beer, bottle of wine, or liquor? Or horrible graphic images of alcohol-related diseased kidneys or livers?Graphic images of victims of alcohol-related violence, disease, and auto accidents included along with every television advertisement?Including such horrible graphic images would tell the "other side" of the effects of the consumption of alcoholic beverages that Budweiser, and other well known sponsors of sporting events, deliberately do not address in their advertising. But that would sure make the booze lobby upset.The federal anti-smoking campaign wants to...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The woman sentenced less than 24 hours ago for assaulting a Jefferson County Public Schools bus driver wasn't scheduled to report to jail until Friday night, but Chesica White is already there. She was jailed after reporting to the probation office. When a Jefferson Circuit Court judge ordered White to spend 30 days in jail, he also told her she would be subject to random drug testing. Courtroom Video "Ms. White, it was apparent to almost everybody in the courtroom yesterday that you were higher than a kite," Judge McKay Chauvin said in court Friday morning. "So...

A Drink a Day May Keep Alzheimer's Away Fran Lowry   August 26, 2011 — Light to moderate drinking seems to reduce the risk for dementia and cognitive decline, according to a new study published in the August issue of Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. A meta-analysis of 143 studies on the effects of alcohol on the brain showed that moderate drinking, defined as no more than 2 drinks a day for a man and no more than 1 drink a day for a woman, reduced the risk for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia by 23%. "It doesn't seem...

Two men who were flying the Jolly Roger pirate flag on their boat are facing charges after boarding another boat moored in Gloucester Harbor Thursday night, police said.

Ancient Greeks engraved their drinking cups with groveling entreaties to the spirit Pausikrepalos, whose main job was delegating and regulating hangovers. Their Roman counterparts preferred to wolf down fried canaries and owl eggs. The Mongolians relied on sheep eyes, the Assyrians swore by ground-up sparrow beaks. Colonial Puritans flogged themselves and bled the hangover out, while Old West cowboys brewed up a pot of Jackrabbit dung tea. Voodoo-inclined Haitians would (and probably still do) jab 13 pins into the cork of the bottle that brought the pain. And then there’s the hair of the dog. The theory that a hangover...

MUNCIE, Ind. -- A central Indiana woman has been arrested for allegedly giving alcohol to teenagers to pay them for baby-sitting her three children. Thirty-year-old Lindsey R. Jones of Muncie faces preliminarily charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, neglect of a dependent and marijuana possession. She remained jailed Monday at the Delaware County Jail. The Star Press reports that a 15-year-old girl told police that Jones gave her alcohol Thursday in exchange for the teen baby-sitting her three children -- ages 11, 7 and 3. The teen told officers she then invited five friends over to drink...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Louisville Metro Police arrested a woman early Sunday morning after her 4-year-old child was found alone near a street corner. According to police, officers found the child near the intersection of Champions Trace and Hikes Lane about 1 a.m. Sunday. Police said officers took the child home and tried for about an hour to find a way to contact their mother, 27-year-old Myra Golder. According to an arrest report, police left a message for Golder to return their call. Police said Golder returned a short time later. Police said Golder's apartment door was left unlocked and that...

DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- Sheriff's deputies arrested a man last week accused of sleeping nude in someone else's car. Investigators said several kids riding bicycles reported seeing a naked man sleeping in a car June 15 parked on Wagon Trail in Deerfield Township. When the car's owner confronted the man, deputies said, he stole a robe from the car and fled on foot. The car's owner said she and her son had moved into their house that day. Deputies said they found the man, identified as 24-year-old Rodney Carter, of Loveland, wearing a red robe with another blue robe wrapped...

The Citizen Journalist Action Alert Brigade has already struck gold in HideousmonsterPalinwhoIhatemorethananythinggate. Hold onto your hats, folks, because you will scarcely believe the stunning HYPOCRISY evident in this e-mail. Thank God for Citizen Journalists and their demented obsession with Palin; otherwise, the LID might never have been RIPPED OFF of this OUTRAGEOUS SCANDAL, which demands a federal investigation, a fair trial, and a first-class hanging at the very least: 06/10/2011 10:40 PM Palin Needs A Drink HuffPost’s Jason Cherkis: According to a Washington Post account, Palin worried about leaving alcohol around the house: “With so many kids and teens coming...

A former Channel 56 anchor has resigned from his TV anchor job in Springfield, telling the Herald he plans to get help for alcoholism after his booze-fueled, charity-event ramblings wound up on YouTube. “It’s something I’m going to seek treatment for,” said Paul Mueller, who said he was forced to quit his morning anchor gig at WGGB-TV on Monday. “I don’t know if I’ll ever return to the field of television news, because I may have ruined my career,” Mueller, 37, said yesterday. “I’ve always loved television news. I’ve always put that at the forefront of whatever I did in...

LAKELAND, Fla. – Olive Garden restaurants are making changes after a toddler was served alcoholic sangria instead of orange juice at a Florida location. News of the incident comes after an Applebee's in Michigan accidently served a margarita to another toddler. Orlando, Fla.-based Darden Restaurants says the mix-up happened March 31 in Lakeland. Jill VanHeest says she took her 2-year-old son Nikolai to the hospital after his eyes turned red and dilated and he began acting up. She said he was given fluids and released a couple hours later with no lasting effects.

A Cardiff University study has established a link between pub violence and happy hour-style drinking promotions. The findings also show that pub staff themselves need to do more to stop heavily intoxicated customers from continuing to drink. The team studied pubs and nightclubs with a history of violence across five different cities and towns in the UK. Customers entering and leaving the premises were breathalysed. The team also recorded data about the price of beer and any drink promotions at each establishment. Their findings were then linked to police and hospital data about assaults inside or immediately outside the premises....

The Federal Parliament has adopted on its first reading a bill that, among other things, recognizes beer as an alcoholic product and introduces a nationwide ban on the sale of alcohol the night, according to ITAR-TASS. The bill fixes the notion of beer as an alcoholic beverage produced from malt, hops and yeast, with an ethanol content of at least 0.5 per cent in the finished product. In addition, beverages manufactured on the basis of beer, with ethanol contents of up to seven percent, are also to be classified as alcoholic beverages. The sales of alcoholic beverages will be banned...

CBS announced today that one of its top shows, "Two and a Half Men," is on hiatus as the series' star, actor Charlie Sheen, entered rehab, one day after he was hospitalized following an allegedly drug-fueled bender with porn stars at his LA home, TMZ reported. "He is most grateful to all who have expressed their concern," the statement added. "Due to Charlie Sheen’s decision to enter a rehabilitation center, CBS, Warner Bros. Television and executive producer Chuck Lorre are placing 'Two and a Half Men' on production hiatus," according to a statement from CBS, Warner Bros. Television and executive...

A few days ago I read that someone (John Kerry?) was going to do a memorial to his old buddy, Ted Kennedy. At first I was outraged -- spend money on a drunken, old Senator. Then I thought -- it might not be so bad -- as long as the memorial is appropriate. This is my idea: A giant fountain with a 1967 Olds 98 upside down in the middle of it with a statue of him sitting on the edge watching it fill up with water. That I could go for.

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – Some lawmakers are looking to ban Four Loko, a high-energy alcohol drink popular among college students, from being sold in New York City. City Councilman James Sanders Jr., who led the charge in 2006 to ban a drink called “Cocaine” from hitting store shelves, says he has launched an investigation and is in contact with health experts about the beverage’s safety. “We are going to go crazy to protect our children from going crazy over Four Loko,” Sanders said.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) - The ABC Commission has revoked the alcohol permits for the Touch nightclub on Patterson Street after officials said club employees tried to cover up a shooting. Greensboro Police and ALE officials requested the revocation after they said in sworn affidavits to the ABC that club personnel hid two people who were shot at the club Oct. 16. Club personnel also tried to prevent officers from entering the premises and denied that shots were fired inside the club that night, ABC officials said. There have been numerous police calls for shootings, stabbings and other disturbances since the...

Ah, the California legislature. It can't balance a budget to save the state's life. Nineteen million plastic bags in landfills, waterways and gutters each year? No prob for this bunch. And one-third of all bills in Sacramento have special-interest sponsors and are twice as likely to pass as those that don't, according to the San Jose Mercury News. So you can rest assured to know that the legislature's late-night session Tuesday at least got some good work done: It passed a law, headed for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk, that allows free samples of alcohol to be handed out at grocery,...

The hangover is really kicking in, and you're cursing yourself for having that fourth drink and then a fifth. Remember Tom? That guy at the party who was only sipping Pellegrino? He's probably doing a bit better right now. But it turns out you may win out in the long run. According to a new study, heavy drinkers outlive abstainers. Now, go ahead mix yourself a bloody Mary for breakfast.

homeless man allegedly broke into a California bar and served drinks to unsuspecting patrons all weekend -- before police came calling. The bar, called the Valencia Club, had gone out of business for some time and its liquor license had expired, police said this week. But the suspect, Travis Lloyd Kevie, 29, somehow got into the California establishment in the Penryn area of Sacramento Valley last week. He reopened the bar using beer he bought from a nearby store.

A growing number of Americans are thought to be getting involved in moonshining - distilling illegal liquor. Traditionally hidden in the backwoods, stills are now going into production in cities across the nation, as Claire Prentice reports from New York.

The ringleader of a bootleg alcohol gang which produced more than a million litres of illegal vodka costing the taxman £10 million in lost revenue was jailed for 12 years today. Harvey Conroy ran a 'determined and professional' outfit which produced fake vodka and tobacco without paying excise duty or VAT, defrauding the state of millions of pounds. Richard Christie QC, for the prosecution, said Conroy orchestrated the fraud in a bid to make massive profits, with the factories working 24 hours-a-day

Late afternoon at UB Tower, and I'm taking a smoking break in a corner of the parking lot after three longish interviews with the top management of United Spirits Limited (USL). Sharing my ash tray young managers from USL's marketing department,... When I introduce myself, one of them asks, "So you're writing about the 100 million cases?" "I'm actually doing a detailed story on the managerial inputs a company requires in a situation of rapid growth," I say importantly. Duly impressed, they ask, "Has an Indian company ever been the world number one in a product category before?" I stall...

The British have historically, at least among the English-speaking peoples, been the least amenable to the discourse of moderation. A relaxed attitude to religious strictures, born of the freebooting diversity of Protestant dissent; an unwillingness to accord implicit trust to authority other than in times of national emergency; a profoundly materialist understanding of ancient liberties, which are as closely implicated with what one chooses to eat and drink (the roast beef of old England, its ales, port wine and gin) as they are with abstract matters such as the right to vote; all these have bred a certain bloody-mindedness in...

Let's get this straight. Utah's Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control enjoys brisk sales of $270 million in its 41 state-controlled stores. It made a profit of almost $60 million and pumped more than $30 million into Utah's sales taxes and school lunch program. Nevertheless, Utah is cutting its DABC budget. To make do, the conventional wisdom says we either need to cut hours at state liquor stores by two hours a day, to 10 hours, or reduce the number of stores. We have a better, far more sensible solution: Why not get the state out of the liquor business! There's...

What is vodka eyeballing? A new fad among some kids in Europe may be spreading to the US. In online videos it is dubbed vodka eyeballing and now the claim is that some American teens have tried the odd way to get a buzz. It is just as it sounds - supposedly it is a shot of vodka into the eye. This bizarre new "trend" has found a home on YouTube and some say they are concerned for US kids as the claim is that it will get you a buzz quicker than taking a shot of vodka by mouth....

After becoming a mother for the second time, it seemed Charlotte Church had finally embraced ault life and decided to ditch her wild ways. But if these pictures are anything to go by, the Voice Of An Angel has fallen well and truly back to earth... again. Ms Church ended a mammoth drinking session slumped over the table of a bar.

While purchasing alcohol and drugs with your EBT (Food Stamps) card is illegal and is not condoned by this blog, it is surprisingly easy to do. Often it involves nothing more than a stroll to your local bodega. If you do not know what a bodega is, you are probably one of the fools paying for this program via your tax dollars. Since my last post Drug and Booze Stamps Compliments of USDA has made this site a haven for people in Brooklyn googling on how to purchase Beer with their EBT cards, I am offering the below training course...

In the wake of the discovery that RNC money had been used for an outing at a lesbian/bondage club Gawker found this little item in the RNC's filings with the FEC: According to the LA Times"About $400 spent at a liquor store on Capitol Hill was classified in the report as "office supplies.'' A person answering the phone at Congressional Liquors said the store sells no office supplies."

Mmm Bacon...Flavored Vodka? By Richard Goldsmith - FOXNews.com America's favorite straight stuff gets an injection of flavor. Once upon a time, vodka was popular for being virtually tasteless, delivering all the punch of alcohol without all of that annoying flavor. It was the ultimate blank canvas, melding with pretty much any mixer a bartender could pair it with. As vodka popularity grew in the ‘80s and ‘90s, liquor distillers realized there was money to be made through product extensions, so companies dove in head first. Thus, the tidal wave of flavored vodkas was unleashed. Flavored vodkas have actually been around...

It’s 1952 and Mel Johnson is hustling his dream. His audience is captive: the dozen businessmen, self-styled playboys and wealthy widows sit in a reserved club car of the Denver Zephyr, hurtling between Chicago and its namesake. Mel’s lanky frame, youthful face and nervous energy bely his 40 years—from ten paces you’d swear he was some goofy kid in his late-20s. Mel has spent the past hour getting the potential investors liquored up and it’s time to make his pitch. He has no charts, blueprints or prospectus to show them. What he does have are matchbooks, cocktail napkins and drink...

PRNewswire: The U.S. Virgin Islands has promised Captain Morgan's manufacturer, London-based Diageo, LLC, that if it moves its operations from Puerto to St. Croix, it will give the liquor giant nearly half of all revenues it will receive under the program, about $2.7 billion in all.

President Barack Obama has blown $10 million on drunken White House parties, Washington insiders tell GLOBE. This week's Special Report rips the lid off the Commander-in-chief's outrageous antics, including boozy conga lines and dinners featuring $150-a-pound Japanese beef! It's must reading for every American.

Important information just in time for the holiday season has been released. Darker alcohols result in worse hangovers than the clear ones. Most drinkers had already figured this out, but there had been no real explanation as to why this happened. The study also revealed that the sluggish effects that accompany a hangover are the same for all types of alcohol hangovers. The study was conducted by Damaris J. Rohsenow from Brown University. The university is in Rhode Island. 95 healthy, heavy drinkers between the ages of 21 and 33 were used in the study. They were required to drink...

NSW Police have expressed disgust after tallying more than 300 arrests on the second night of a massive crackdown on alcohol-fuelled violence. The police were confronted with brawls, assaults and robberies across the state on Saturday during their high-profile campaign against anti-social behaviour. Operation Unite, launched on Friday, nabbed another 307 people on Saturday night, with 509 charges laid. A statement issued by the force on Sunday said officers were "disgusted" at the level of alcohol-related violence and anti-social behaviour. One officer was even headbutted.

CHEYENNE — A head-on collision that killed a Ten Sleep couple last year is prompting a new legal challenge to a state law that protects bar owners from being held responsible for the actions of intoxicated patrons. John and Carol Munkberg died Jan. 28, 2008, in a fiery crash in Big Horn County. He was 70, and she was 66. The other driver, Randall LaBrie, 41, of Malta, Mont., had a blood alcohol level of 0.16 percent — twice the legal limit — and was driving in the wrong lane, police reports stated. LaBrie and his two passengers also died....

Global warming culture has arrived. A motocross event through local forests and city streets and a fashion "summit" are among the myriad side events scheduled for the United Nations' Climate Change Conference 2009, which begins Monday. There's also a new Copenhagen cocktail for delegates perhaps weary of heavy discussion.

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A Westport lawmaker who voted to hike the state sales and alcohol taxes was spotted brazenly piling booze in his car - adorned with his State House license plate - in the parking lot of a tax-free New Hampshire liquor store, the Herald has learned. Michael J. Rodrigues’ blue Ford Crown Victoria, emblazoned with his “House 29” Massachusetts license plate, was parked outside a Granite State liquor store on Interstate-95 South over the weekend, according to a witness who provided pictures to the Herald. The witness, who requested anonymity, claimed he approached Rodrigues, noted his State House plate, and asked...

Predictably, the push has begun to get a Kennedy into the Senate seat held for lo those many years by Ted Kennedy. The Kennedys favorite newspaper - the Boston Globe - all but annointed Joe in a news story by Frank Phillips that also handily reminded everybody that the seat is, after all, the permanent property of the Kennedy family. Said Philips: [Snip] "All eyes now are on Joseph P. Kennedy II, the former US representative, with family members and political allies expecting him to make a decision very shortly on whether to enter the Democratic primary. "No other Kennedy...

We'll give the young Republican crowd some points for, uh, creativity -- but we just hope they get their fun in the right order when they hold that big Bay Area Young Republicans' "Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Fundraiser" this weekend. Say, whaaaa? No kidding. In a move that says that the Wild West is alive and well in California politics (or that maybe there's no adult advisor involved here), the San Francisco, San Mateo and Silicon Valley Young Republicans are planning an official smokin', drinkin', shoot-em-up fundraiser -- literally. It's even listed on the California Republican Party events website.

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NEW CANAAN, Connecticut (Reuters) - Cocaine and martinis on Wall Street? Nothing new there. Masters of the Universe admitting they have an alcohol problem? Not so common. Experts say more and more people in finance are seeking treatment for addiction as the global economic crisis sinks its teeth into a high-stakes industry where confidence is the name of the game and nobody wants to admit to a weakness. "We absolutely do see more people coming in naming either a job loss or huge financial reversals or big investments with Bernie Madoff," said Sigurd Ackerman, medical director at Silver Hill Hospital...

Utah is the only state that requires people to fill out an application and pay a fee before entering a bar. But the shelf life of this law — enacted 40 years ago in a state where nearly two out of three residents are members of a religion that shuns drinking — appears to be dwindling. In Utah, and across the country, governors and lawmakers faced with budget deficits are advocating loosening laws that restrict alcohol consumption in the hopes of boosting tax revenues. _ In Georgia, Connecticut, Indiana, Texas, Alabama and Minnesota, lawmakers are considering legislation this year that...

Utah is the only state that requires people to fill out an application and pay a fee before entering a bar. But the shelf life of this law — enacted 40 years ago in a state where nearly two out of three residents are members of a religion that shuns drinking — appears to be dwindling.In Utah, and across the country, governors and lawmakers faced with budget deficits are advocating loosening laws that restrict alcohol consumption in the hopes of boosting tax revenues.In Georgia, Connecticut, Indiana, Texas, Alabama and Minnesota, lawmakers are considering legislation this year that would end the...