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HYANNIS — It was an unhappy birthday for an alleged drunken driver who crashed into a local liquor store yesterday, the police said. At 1:34 a.m., a witness on Main Street called police to report seeing a man driving a 2009 Honda Civic through a series of bushes near the Paddock restaurant, across the West End Rotary and into the Hyannis Package Store on Main Street. The police said Bernard Kilroy, 27, of Centerville, crashed into the front window of the building and his car came to rest completely inside the store. He then put his car in reverse, exited...

Attitude strikes a nerve with the judge SALEM — When police found 22-year-old Taylor Jackson hiding near the scene of her wrecked car early yesterday morning, they say Jackson made one thing clear: "I'm not going to get arrested from a (expletive) Salem cop," Jackson allegedly told officers. "I'm from Marblehead." Police arrested her anyway, and Jackson was in Salem District Court yesterday to face charges of drunken driving and leaving the scene of a property damage accident. She also got a lecture from the judge. "If you were my daughter, I'd leave you in jail for the weekend," Judge...

A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. . . . Police said the chair was powered by a converted lawnmower and had a stereo and cup holders.

A drunk driver who greeted police at the door of her Ottawa home naked after leaving the scene of a crash should spend up to 60 days in jail, the Crown argued yesterday. Assistant Crown attorney John Ramsay asked that Anik Bertrand, 34, be jailed for the November 2006 crash on Highway 174 that trapped two people in their car and left debris -- including her minivan's bumper and licence plate -- strewn across the road. Court heard that Bertrand, who had been drinking at a bar, left the scene and drove to a pub near her home where she...

Police said a man was arrested on Monday for his 22nd drunken driving offense—and his blood-alcohol content tested almost five times higher than New Mexico's legal limit. State Police Lt. Eric Garcia said an officer pulled up to a car parked along a highway and found a 51-year-old man on the ground near his vehicle. "He was coherent," Garcia said. "He showed signs of slurred speech, as might be normal for any DWI arrest, which led the officer to believe he might be driving under the influence." Garcia said the suspect had to be taken by ambulance to Christus St....

A ghost-story song Watch video. I watch my bride weep for me And wonder if she'll drown in pools of debt. Why'd I climb behind the wheel When my face I couldn't feel? Mr. Chivas, I sure wish we'd never met. I watch as they bury me. I struggle to believe I'm really dead. No one hears what I can't say. Lord, please give me one more day. Too many words of love went left unsaid. I won't cross through to the light. I'd rather stay behind than risk my end. Please don't catch my restless soul. Leave me hiding...

Here is video from CBS News' "60 Minutes" last night where they took a hard look at the need for much harsher penalties against DWI offenses. It focuses on a family who were hit head-on by a drunk-driver, with their 7 year-old daughter killed. The report shows dramatic video of a dash-cam inside the limousine the family was in. You can see the drunk driver's vehicle coming right at the limo and then the crash takes place. The report then deals with the prosecutor in the case seeking a charge of "murder by depraved indifference" against the young man who...

Vehicle homicide trial awaits fourth (snip) But according to the four defendants’ statements to police, they decided to continue partying. After driving to Vokey’s house, where Baldwin picked up nearly a case of beer, the four headed to Nahant Beach. At the beach, Vokey’s girlfriend arrived and picked him up, leaving Baldwin, Palomba, and Caruso with the beer. According to their statements, Baldwin and Palomba each consumed about five beers, and Caruso drank as many as six. The three were at the beach for about two hours. When they got into Caruso’s car, Baldwin asked Caruso if he was “good.’’...

Rio Rancho police arrested the head of the Santa Fe Police Department's Internal Affairs Division early Sunday morning and charged him with aggravated drunken driving, according to a police report. Lt. Stephen Ryan, 44, was pulled over about 1:40 a.m. at the intersection of Golf Course Road and Southern Boulevard in Rio Rancho after an officer saw his 2002 Toyota Tundra pickup weaving, the report says. He was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated and failure to maintain a traffic lane after Ryan refused to take a breath test, according to the report. Ryan was placed on administrative leave Monday...

One minute they were a bunch of carefree teenagers headed to somebody's house to “hang out.” The next minute four of them were dead, one critically injured and others on their cell phones describing for dispatchers the horrific crash scene east of Santa Fe. “Tell someone to get out here. It's really bad. I mean, half the (expletive) car is gone,” pleads Mikhail McReynolds, the first caller to reach dispatchers. “I think people might be dead.” Kate Klein, Alyssa Trouw, an Julian Martinez, all 16, and Rose Simmons 15 were killed shortly after midnight Sunday when the Subaru in which...

A Saugus High School senior is being held on $7,500 bail today after prosecutors allege he drank 10 beers prom night then crashed his car the next morning killing a 67-year-old woman and injuring her daughter. Jonathan Caruso, 18, pleaded innocent in Lynn District Court today to charges relating to Saturday morning’s tragic crash. Prosecutor Christina Ronan said police arrived to a horrific scene: “Officers could also hear and see a woman crying in pain,” she said. Caruso is charged with motor vehicle homicide by reckless operation, drunken driving and a minor transporting alcohol. The prosecutor requested $20,000 bail, but...

The little girl flung from a minivan yesterday morning in west Omaha has died, according to the Omaha Police Department. Josie Bluhm, 4, was in a 2007 Chrysler Town & Country driven by her mother when the crash occurred. Her mother's minivan was southbound on 180th Street about 7:25 a.m. Tuesday when a 2007 Ford F-150 pickup driven west on West Center Road by Eleazar Rangel-Ochoa, 27, ran a red light and slammed into it, authorities said. Josie was the most severely hurt of those injured in the crash. She suffered brain hemorrhaging and was eventually declared brain dead. Life...

Sometimes, despite the best of our intentions, the worst truly happens. Unacceptable and inexcusable evil strikes the innocent down dead. It does so for no reason, and it does so for nobody’s benefit. Evil, simply just is. Other times, the worst of consequences should and could have been prevented. Huntsville, Alabama teenagers Leigh Anna Jimmerson and Tad Mattle appear to have been stricken down by just such an act of unconscionable non-random malice. They were rear-ended by a drunken driver Friday night and killed. The drunken driver was obviously in our country illegally. I’ll repeat in a voice of outrage...

SHERMAN -- April Fool's Day started off without much laughter for a man whose car got smashed by a train at around 3 a.m. Wednesday. Bruce Dawsey of the Sherman Police Department said dispatchers received a call seeking assistance at about that time from a man who said his car was stuck on the track and he didn't know what to do. "I am scared and I am lost and I am stranded on a railroad track," the man could be heard telling the dispatcher on a recording of the 911 call. "I took the wrong turn somewhere and I...

A Connecticut Superior Court judge charged with drunken driving and using racial slurs while arguing with police officers was suspended Monday for 240 days by a judicial review panel. Judge E. Curtissa Cofield, who was confirmed as Connecticut's first black female judge in 1991, had apologized to the state Judicial Review Council earlier in the day, calling the night of her arrest "one of the worst experiences of my life." Cofield was arrested the night of Oct. 9 after her car hit a parked state police cruiser in a construction zone on Route 2 in Glastonbury, Conn. Police say she...

A three-time Culver City police officer of the year was killed Wednesday on the eastbound Santa Monica (10) Freeway in the Palms area when his car was struck head-on by a wrong-way driver, who also died in the collision, according to the CHP. The collision that took the life of Culver City police Sgt. Curt Massey occurred about 5 a.m., just west of National Boulevard, the California Highway Patrol reported. "Curt was a very special police sergeant and friend,'' Chief Don Pedersen said of the 17-year veteran of the department. "He was kind, thoughtful and always went out of his...

A prosecutor in Kansas has failed to block the suspension of his law license by arguing that his alleged Asperger Syndrome played a part in his decision to show sexually explicit photos of drunken teens at a party to their parents. The Supreme Court of Kansas on Friday suspended Anderson County Attorney Frederick Campbell, 49, from practice for six months. The court concluded that he violated attorney ethics rules when he attempted to demonstrate to a group of parents the dangers of teenage drinking by presenting them with photos of teens drinking and engaging in sexual intercourse.

A former Morris County municipal judge arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated also was charged with refusing to take a breath test when the procedure could not be administered due to his continual burping, a police officer testified yesterday. After being pulled over in Sparta on Feb. 15 on suspicion of DWI, George Korpita, 48, a former municipal judge in Dover, Rockaway Borough and Victory Gardens, consented to take a breath test. But the procedure could not be administered because Korpita repeatedly burped, Sparta patrolman Jo seph Pensado testified during a bench trial in the Sussex County township's...

CHICAGO – Ann Marie Getz had already been twice convicted of driving under the influence when, behind the wheel of her Lincoln Continental and allegedly drunk, she ran a stop sign this month in central Illinois and smashed into another car. A mother and two kids in the Chevy Impala that Getz hit died. And yet the 43-year-old Streator woman was able to present a valid Illinois driver's license to investigators.

WESLACO - Several Valley candidates are facing criminal charges, while running for election. In Starr County, Reymundo Guerra is running unopposed for sheriff. While voters are casting ballots, he's in federal jail. Guerra is accused of setting up stash houses and tipping off drug smugglers about investigations. NEWSCHANNEL 5 learned his name will stay on the ballot and there are no plans at this hour if he wins. Also, Hidalgo County District Judge Jesse Contreras is facing his second arrest for DWI. He's running against republican challenger Danny Rios. Voters will have to decide if they want to elect Contreras,...

Remember that guy Chuck that Sen. Joe Biden asked to stand up and be recognized? You know, the one that was paraplegic and couldn't stand? Turns out that although he can't stand, he has no problem driving drunk. WatchChuckDrive.com is a new website dedicated to the MO State Senator's daring feat. For those keeping score at home, you can add Chuck Graham to the growing list of local politicians finding themselves the unwitting stars of online videos.

Sarah Palin may be the heroine of the religious right, but Rev. Gene Straatmeyer vividly recalls a public run-in he once had with the now Republican vice presidential candidate over clergy support for a crackdown on bars. It was August 1996, just weeks before Palin's election as mayor of tiny Wasilla, Alaska. And Straatmeyer, a local Presbyterian minister and head of two church coalitions, testified at a City Council hearing for a measure to shorten the traditional 5 a.m. last call by a few hours.

At age 18, an American can enlist in the military, vote, sign a contract, get married, have an operation -- hey, in California, a 14-year-old can have an abortion without telling her parents -- but he cannot buy a beer. Not legally, anyway. It makes absolutely no sense, and it is shameful that my generation, which won the right to vote at age 18, continues to infantilize people who are allowed to make life-and-death decisions on every issue, save one. We believe in rights -- except for college-age kids -- even if they are serving in the military. Enter the...

Patrol fires 12 troopers in cheating case Thursday, September 11, 2008 3:21 AM FROM THE (CANTON) REPOSITORY CANTON -- Twelve officers accused of cheating on a certification test for a device used to gather evidence against intoxicated drivers have been fired from the State Highway Patrol. Patrol spokesman Lt. Tony Bradshaw said it's the first time in the law-enforcement agency's 75-year history that so many officers have been let go at once. The patrol said the three sergeants and eight troopers from the Canton post and one Wooster trooper cheated on a certification exam for administering breath tests to determine...

In recent years, state and local governments across the United States have passed measures to outlaw smoking in bars, says the American. The public health rationale is simple: to protect bar patrons and employees from exposure to secondhand smoke. But according to economists Scott Adams of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Chad Cotti of the University of South Carolina, smoking bans have had some unintended and deadly consequences. Specifically, they have led to an increase in drunk-driving fatalities. The economists studied a variety of municipalities that passed smoking bans. According to their research: The passage of the bans led to...

Holiday DUI suspects risk forced blood test Court's OK likely if breath exam is refused Wednesday, July 2, 2008 9:35 PM By Kathy Lynn Gray THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Suspected drunken drivers won't be able to "just say no" to blood-alcohol tests in Columbus over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Police have set up a "no-refusal weekend," meaning that anyone who refuses to take a breath-analysis test will face a blood test instead, courtesy of two local judges on call to sign warrants. Officers will take suspects to a local hospital to await the warrant and the blood draw. Ohio...

If you’re not a convicted drunk driver, should you still be required to have an in-car breathalyzer fitted (at your expense, ‘natch) to your next new vehicle? Apparently, some automakers — including GM and Toyota — think so. They and a few others are working together under the auspices of something called the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety, which is a $10 million federal “research program” that is trying to develop just such technology for mass introduction a few years from now. At the moment, the only people who have to deal with (and pay for) in-car Breathalyzers are...

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Police in Australia have charged a man for drink driving in a motorized wheelchair after he was found to be six times over the legal alcohol limit, local media reported on Monday. Police in the tropical northern Queensland city of Cairns said the man had a blood alcohol reading of 0.31, and was so drunk he was asleep at the controls of his motorized wheelchair in a turning lane of a major highway. --snip-- Other motorists on the four-lane highway had to swerve to avoid the wheelchair, police said.

School officials in Oceanside, Calif., are defending a scared-straight exercise that sent some El Camino High School students into hysterics. Camino High guidance counselor Lori Tauber said, "We wanted them to be traumatized."

The Texas Department of Public Safety is withholding trooper dashboard camera video taken during the arrest of Texas representative Mike Krusee. Using the Texas Public Information Act, KXAN requested the video after the state lawmaker from Williamson County was arrested for DWI earlier this month. A state trooper pulled him over after he noticed him driving erratically in northwest Austin. The license plate on his vehicle also had expired last December. Elected state officials all have personalized license plates. Therefore, the trooper would have known he was pulling over a state official before asking for identification. A spokeswoman for the...

Some illegal immigrants may have found a way to ensure they will never lose their driver's licenses for drunk driving in California – even if they can't read. Christian Rodier, office assistant at Special Treatment Education and Prevention Services, or STEPS, in Bakersfield, Calif., told WND he believes repeat drunk driving offenders who are illiterate and who fail to produce proof of citizenship are receiving preferential treatment when they take classes to dismiss DUIs. "There are some clients who do not provide any Social Security numbers whatsoever," he said. "When a client calls over the phone to have a schedule...

Cars have been a huge part of our lives. We use them to get around anywhere. It might have been the best invention mankind came up with, but we all hate several common things about cars, such as the cost of gas prices and traffic. We think sometimes in our imagination how awesome it would be if cars had wings, so maybe one day we will fly through terrific! We also despise accidents, high insurance and drunk driving. Sometimes, I feel that we need other alternative means of transportation, such as a subway system in the state of Texas; maybe...

Officer admits to drunken driving By TOM HOWELL JR. thowell@njherald.com NEWTON — A Wayne police officer avoided criminal prosecution Tuesday by admitting he was drunk when he drove into two Sparta police cars on Route 15 two months ago. Fifteen-year Patrolman Alex-ander Sanagorksi, 38, of Sparta, caused minor injuries to Sparta Sgt. John Lamon and Patrolman Scott Elig when his Ford Explorer veered off the northbound lane and into the median at 2:28 a.m. on Nov. 17, according to police. The officers had been looking for the Explorer based on reports from Jefferson police about a possibly intoxicated driver. There...

A sister of one of three people killed early Friday in Louisville said it "really isn't a shock to any of us" that her brother died in a high-speed crash. "The thing that really makes me feel much better about this is they died doing what they loved to do — they were drinking, they were going fast and they were together," Lorie Flaherty said. "It gives me comfort, it does, to know those three things."

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) was founded in 1980 with the mission “…to stop drunk driving and support the victims of this violent crime. ” That’s a big, if not impossible goal, “to stop drunk driving”. One way MADD is trying to stop drunk driving this holiday season is through their “Tie One on for Safety” campaign. According the the Leaf Chronicle (12.10.07), the Tennessee office of MADD is distributing over 10,000 red ribbons state-wide to raise drunk driving awareness. According to the article, the red ribbon campaign has three stated goals 1. “high visibility of officers, meaning many officers...

PHOENIX, Dec. 4 — A conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol is something many people try to conceal, even from their families. But now the bleary-eyed, disheveled and generally miserable visages of convicted drunken drivers here, captured in their mug shots, are available to the entire world via a Web site. The hall of shame is even worse for drunken drivers convicted of a felony. A select few will find their faces plastered on billboards around Phoenix with the banner headline: Drive drunk, see your mug shot here. The Web site and billboards, which began last month, are...

One summer night, Const. Dory Dietrich started his drive home after having put in two hours of overtime on top of his regular 12-hour shift with Calgary City Police. He was still in uniform due to a court appearance scheduled the next day. It was an appearance he would never make. The newly wed 28-year-old police veteran of three years, and father of a two month old baby girl, Alexis, was struck by a drunk driver head-on along 14th Street as he drove home that fateful June night in 2000. “He (the impaired driver) was going 100 miles per hour...

LOS ANGELES - Kiefer Sutherland was sentenced Wednesday to 48 days in jail in his drunken driving case, prosecutors said. Sutherland appeared in court with his attorney for the sentencing. He had pleaded no contest for driving with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit of .08 following his Sept. 25 arrest. Assistant City Attorney Dan Jeffries said a Superior Court judge ordered that the actor serve 48 days in Glendale city jail. Sutherland must begin the sentence before March 30, Jeffries said.

                                      More than 52,000 drunk drivers have made it onto the DWI HIT PARADE since 1990....don't drink and drive, call a cab, call a friend, call a cop, but don't drive...call 911 to report drunk drivers...As the holiday season gets underway, remember, ST. MARY'S TODAY prints the names of those arrested for DWI in Southern Maryland and posts the DWI Hit Parade online.  Some readers have contacted us to find out how to get their names OFF of the online DWI Hit Parade.  The families of victims have been contacted to ask their reaction to this question and they wanted...

An Oakland man charged Monday with murdering two children in a Thanksgiving night hit-and-run crash told his 17-year-old nephew moments before impact that he didn't care if he or the teenager died as a result of his speeding, a prosecutor said. Carmelo Salas, 28, was charged with murder in the deaths of Stephanie Cervantez, 14, and her 4-year-old cousin, Jacklin Munguia-Herrera, for allegedly running a stop sign in East Oakland and crashing his Ford Expedition sport utility vehicle into a Ford Mustang carrying the victims about 7:20 p.m. Thursday. ... Salas told his nephew that he wasn't afraid to die...

A 911 tape details the dramatic cell phone conversation that took place late Saturday between a Santa Fe County dispatcher and a 15-year-old girl who called to report her father driving drunk at speeds that reached 100 mph. The girl can be heard screaming, crying and pleading with her father multiple times to pull the car over. "Dad! Slow down!" the girl screamed. "You're going 90! Pull over, now!" The girl, along with her 13-year-old sister and a 15-year-old friend, were passengers in the 2000 white Pontiac Sunfire driven by Robert J. Montoya of Santa Fe on N.M. 41. The...

A man convicted of causing a crash on Pacific Coast Highway that killed the director of "A Christmas Story'' and his son is scheduled to be sentenced today. Hector Manuel Velazquez-Nava faces a six-year state prison term. Velazquez-Nava pleaded no contest to two counts of manslaughter in August in the deaths of Robert Clark and his son, Ariel Hanrath-Clark. Authorities said Velazquez-Nava, an illegal immigrant, had a blood-alcohol content of .24 -- three times the legal limit.

WAVERLY, Ohio (AP) — Nearly 100 drunken-driving suspects in this southern Ohio town avoided convictions or jail time last year after making voluntary $1,000 donations to the police department, county records show. More than a third of the drunken-driving cases filed by Waverly police in Pike County Court last year were dismissed, according to a report published Sunday in The Columbus Dispatch.

Waukesha, WI - A man who tried escaping his depression by blending booze and prescription drugs was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison for killing an Iraq war veteran and his fiancée and gravely injuring the dead woman's mother in a St. Patrick's Day drunken-driving crash. Kenneth Fekete had never run afoul of the law before St. Patrick's Day, but his alcohol level that morning was more than four times what Wisconsin considers evidence of intoxication when his car crossed over the center of Highway 18 in the Town of Summit, killing a man who returned safely from two...

<p>A man who caused a crash on Pacific Coast Highway that killed the director of ''A Christmas Story'' and his son pleaded no contest Wednesday to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.</p> <p>Hector Manuel Velazquez-Nava, 24, faces a six-year state prison term when sentenced Sept. 27 at the Airport Branch Courthouse, according to the District Attorney's Office.</p>

HUGO, Okla. (AP) -- State Senator Jeff Rabon was arrested on a drunken driving complaint Monday evening after a multi-car accident, authorities said. Choctaw County Sheriff Lewis Collins says Rabon was booked into the Choctaw County jail and released on a $1,000 bond. The accident, which did involve injuries, occurred Monday night in Hugo, and Rabon was arrested by a Hugo police officer, Collins said. "He was involved in a multi-car accident last night, but I don't have the particulars," Collins said. Hugo City Manager David Rawles says the three-car accident happened along U.S. Highway 70 near the Kiamichi Technology...

CLEVELAND (AP) — The state has agreed to pay $350,000 to the estate of a woman pulled over for suspected drunken driving then killed along the Ohio Turnpike after she escaped from a trooper's vehicle.

Three young people died in Newark, the latest casualties in illegal aliens' war on America. But don't expect even this bloody outrage to end the complacency of the political elite -- or the mainstream media -- as the alien invasion turns our streets into a slaughter house. On August 13, The New York Times, America's newspaper of wretched, covered the Newark murders in its usual, agenda-driven, fashion. In "After Killings, Sense of Unity Surprises Newark," the Times reported, "Political rivals have promised to work together, young men in gangs have signed pledges to put down their weapons, and a mayor...

An illegal immigrant is facing vehicular homicide charges in the death of a college student. Victor Benitez appeared in court Thursday morning for a preliminary hearing in the death of Tennessee State University student-athlete Joycelyn Gardiner. Three witnesses took the stand and detailed the events surrounding Gardiner’s death. “There was no sound of breaks or anything; (he) just came straight in. The light was red. I could see the light,” said Kent Redgrave. One witness told the court that he saw Benitez run a red light and slam into Gardiner’s car. The crash occurred early Saturday at the intersection of...

The man responsible for the death of Tennessee State University senior is an illegal immigrant, police said Tuesday. Joycelyn Gardiner, 22, died Saturday morning when a car, driven by a drunk driver, plowed into her car. The driver, 24-year-old Victor Benitez, is an undocumented immigrant who has been in trouble with the law before. On Tuesday, News 2 spoke exclusively with his roommate, Margarito Lopez, who said he knew something was wrong when he got a call from Benitez Saturday night. "He told me that he got himself into some trouble,” Lopez said. “He told me he got into a...