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Two men were arrested for driving while intoxicated on 6th Street Friday night. One was riding a horse, while the other was riding a mule. Austin police say the ment were both intoxicated. They were apparently trying to lure people out of bars and into the street to take pictures with them and their farm animals. Bartender Brian Matthews thought he'd seen everything, that is until he walked outside to have a cigarette Friday night. "There were these two guys on horses, or mules, or something, outside of Shakespeare's," he said. "(It) looked like they were being pulled over for...

SAN DIEGO — A drunken wrong-way driver who caused the death of a sheriff’s deputy who tried to stop him was sentenced Friday to seven years and eight months in prison, a term some of the deputy’s supporters said was too low. Jose Pedro Lopez Jasso, 23, was charged in connection with the Feb. 28 death of Deputy Ken Collier. Eight months later, he pleaded guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and other charges related to the deputy’s crash in Santee. Lopez also pleaded guilty to manufacturing a weapon — a comb fashioned into a shank — while in...

GALVESTON — A Galveston County assistant district attorney and a sheriff’s deputy were among 25 people charged with driving while intoxicated, authorities said Friday. Prosecutor Lester Blizzard, 50, and deputy Tino Ramirez, 43, were booked on the charges stemming from Thursday night arrests, sheriff’s office spokesman Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo said. Their bonds on the misdemeanor charges were set at $5,000 each. Their arrests followed traffic stops by state troopers at 51st Street and Harborside Drive in Galveston, Tela Mange, a spokeswoman for the Department of Public Safety, said. Blizzard was arrested at 10:16 p.m. State troopers accused Blizzard of speeding...

When an inebriated driver was pulled over by police after being spotted swerving dangerously across the road in Lincoln, Nebraska he must have known that his chances did not look good. The bottle of vodka and empty beer cans might be overlooked, but the head-to-toe breathalyser costume was going to be a dead giveaway. Matthew Nieveen, 19, had spent the evening at a Halloween party in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he decided to model himself after a blood alcohol monitor used to test suspected drunk drivers. It is believed he then got behind the wheel of his pickup truck after the...

CONROE, Texas — Montgomery County jurors sent a message that drunk driving in the county will not be tolerated. George Harvey, 59, was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after a jury thought eight convictions for driving while intoxicated was too many to let him back on the streets.

A Bexar County grand jury Wednesday returned four murder indictments against Valerie Andrews, 39, accused in August of driving drunk, fleeing police and causing a collision that killed four people. Andrews was indicted under the “felony murder rule” because at the time of the Aug. 8 crash on the South Side, she was evading police — a felony, a news release from the district attorney's office states. The rule allows a murder charge to be applied to someone who causes the death of another while committing or trying to commit a felony, the news release said. In the past two...

A campaign to create a new category of driving while intoxicated is being promoted at the Capitol as one way to curb growing problems in Texas' system of punishing drunken drivers. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, among the supporters of the change, said the idea behind a new offense of "driving while ability impaired" — DWAI — would cover drivers whose blood-alcohol content is between 0.05 and 0.07

SAN ANTONIO -- How drunk is drunk? Some police officers in Texas want a newly revised definition. Currently, the blood alcohol level (BAC) of 0.08 or higher is considered to be under the influence, but one police chief wants to lower that number and change the legal limit. KENS 5 talked to drivers about the proposed new law and we observed a varied reaction. The next time you are at the bar or perhaps at a sporting event enjoying a casual cocktail, you may want to think twice about drinking that alcoholic beverage before planning to drive. "I guess if...

George Michael wept yesterday as a judge told him he was a drug addict - and jailed him for crashing his range rover into a shop. The singer was sentenced to eight weeks for driving after taking a 'dangerous and unpredictable' cocktail of cannabis and anti-anxiety prescription medication - but may be out of jail in a month.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Hundreds of DUI and other traffic cases are in jeopardy after 1,300 Metro police crime videos were deleted by a glitch in computer software. "It's a fairly significant piece of evidence obviously," said presiding General Sessions Judge Dan Eisenstein. The judge said video evidence can play a key role in all types of criminal cases. "It's highly unusual. It doesn't happen everyday," said Eisenstein. Metro police said an ICOP computer system caused the problem over a six month period. The video is recorded in the squad car and onto a hard drive. When the hard drive was...

DESTIN – A 32-year-old man was charged with DUI after a witness saw him drive onto the dock at Joe's Bayou Recreation Area. A deputy responded to the area about 1:30 a.m. May 29, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest report. Kenneth Alan Salter, of McCalla, Ala., hit the dock pilings, damaging the front bumper and grill of his red Toyota. Salter reversed off the dock and into a ditch and hit a power pole, the release reads. He drove over the Marler Bridge onto Okaloosa Island, then reversed, drove back over the bridge and turned into the...

INDIANAPOLIS -- A man suspected of driving drunk will not face felony charges in a crash between a van and a motorcycle that killed two people...

MAHWAH, N.J. (CBS) ― Three small children were taken on the frightening ride of their young lives. Police in New Jersey pulled over a Mahwah mother who was swerving on the road, allegedly driving drunk with a blood-alcohol level of 0.39. The 36-year-old was arrested on DWI charges and endangering minors. The allegations are shocking. Georgette Massi was arrested on DWI charges and endangering minors. Massi is charged with driving drunk with two of her own children in the car, ages 1 and 6, and a friend's child, age 6. "It's scary. I feel relieved right now 'cause she's getting...

Cannot excerpt the article because the newspaper is owned by Gannett, however you can read the story HERE. Brief synopsis of the facts: Mary Kennedy is Bobby Kennedy, Jr.'s wife. She was busted for DWI on May 15 after she drove her car over a curb outside a school where she was going to attend a carnival. Her blood alcohol level tested 0.11 percent, well over the legal limit. This comes after several other recent incidents where police were called to the family home to quell domestic disturbances -- in which Mary was also observed to be obviously drunk.

A father-of-four has been banned from driving for three years after getting behind the wheel of a toy car when drunk. Paul Hutton, 40, was over the legal alcohol limit when he climbed into the seat of a 4ft by 2ft electric Barbie car, which has a top speed of just 4mph. A police patrol car spotted the 6ft-tall former RAF aeron Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267136/Father-banned-driving-getting-wheel-toy-Barbie-car-drunk.html#ixzz0lY2qUqd4

SANTA FE — The system didn't work. If it had, James Ruiz might well have been behind bars the night of March 5 instead of driving a friend's Ford F-250 pickup truck on Cerrillos Road. And teenage sisters Deshauna and Del Lynn Peshlakai would still be alive. Instead, Ruiz's 15-year history of heavy drinking and driving — and the way he skated with minimal penalties so many times — make him a poster boy for how the system failed. A Journal investigation of Ruiz's arrests shows a trail that wound through a number of New Mexico courts. It also reveals:...

SANTA FE — Ask about teenage sisters Deshauna and Del Lynn Peshlakai, and the conversation repeatedly shifts to basketball. "They were athletes — the whole family," said the girls' aunt, Virginia Garcia. "They'd played basketball since they were little girls. Their father played; the whole family played. Basketball was their life." It was basketball that brought Deshauna and Del to Santa Fe on Friday night, where they were killed by a suspected drunken driver in a five-car pileup on Cerrillos Road. The Peshlakais, who are from the Navajo community of Naschitti, south of Shiprock, were headed home after Newcomb High...

Some key dates in Patrick Kennedy's life July 14, 1967 – Born in Brighton. 1986 -- As a senior at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, checks into the Spofford Hall drug and alcohol treatment facility in New Hampshire. 1988 – Elected to the Rhode Island House while still a college student. 1991 – Awarded B.A., Providence College. 1991 – Testifies in the Palm Beach, Fla., rape trial of his cousin, William Kennedy Smith. Smith was later acquitted. 1994 – Elected as US Representative for Rhode Island's First District. November 1998 -- Named chairman of the Democratic Congresssional Campaign Committee. March 2000...

DUI Charges Against 54 Dropped Prosecutors say a Polk County sheriff's deputy may have taken shortcuts in handling investigations. By Jason Geary THE LEDGER Prosecutors have abandoned charges against 54 people accused of driving under the influence, citing concerns about a deputy's shortcuts in writing reports and conducting blood alcohol tests. Deputy Tex Thomas has made about 124 arrests for DUI since he began working last year for the Polk County Sheriff's Office. In a deposition, Thomas spoke about preparing reports by cutting-and-pasting words from previous DUI reports as a "template" rather than starting with a blank page. Prosecutors also...

A 42-year-old suburban mom is in a detox facility Wednesday night after registering a .40 when police stopped her Tuesday afternoon in Inver Grove Heights. A shopper at the Cub Foods grocery store in West St. Paul called police after she saw the woman and her young son in the frozen food aisle. "He was saying mommy, I want to go home. Let's go home mommy,'" said a woman who called 911. "I went up to her and asked if she was okay and she didn't answer me. She was like stumbling. So, I had my instincts kicked in." A...