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NEW BRIGHTON, Pa. (AP) - Authorities say a Pennsylvania bride allegedly fatally shot her niece after an argument that took place during a wedding party. Police allege that 30-year-old Christina George-Harvan of Conway used her husband's handgun to shoot 21-year-old Katelyn "Kaytee" Francis of Fairmont, West Virginia during Thursday night argument in a New Brighton bar. That's about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh.

Thirty-five percent of people in U.S. bars who said they were designated drivers had blood-alcohol levels high enough to impair their driving, researchers say. Adam Barry, an assistant professor of health education and behavior at the University of Florida, and his team recruited patrons as they left bars in a restaurant and bar district of a major university town in the Southeast between 10 p.m. and 2:30 a.m. across six Friday nights before home football games in fall 2011. …

See for example this thread first. A man declining alcohol because he was the designated driver for a group is manhandled and tossed from a bar. The dumbest thing I’ve heard by far A man who got tossed from a bar… cause he didn’t drink Did the bar stop to think He’d be *sober* while driving his car?

Flathead District Judge Ted Lympus sentenced a chronic drunk driver to 20 years in prison Thursday. "If I could put him away until the end of time, I think I'd do it," Lympus said of Randy Turner. Turner, 47, pleaded guilty in November to felony DUI. After three DUIs, the crime becomes a felony. Turner has at least nine convictions and probably has been charged with DUI even more, according to his lawyer, Glen Neier. One of the convictions came after Turner slammed his truck into a young woman's vehicle in 1984, leaving her permanently disabled. Probation and parole officer...

<p>Todd Birch apparently knew he was too intoxicated to drive, but he gave his car keys to the wrong person, authorities said.</p> <p>Shortly after leaving a Downtown bar early Thursday, the 24-year-old man died after he was run over by his own car.</p>