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A police body camera video leaked to Contact7 Investigates shows the son of Denver Mayor Michael Hancock using a slur against an Aurora police officer during a traffic stop. “My dad’s the mayor, you f---ing f--got,” Jordan Hancock is shown saying in the video clip. “Of Denver? Well you’re in Aurora,” the officer responds. “Guess what, I’m about to get you fired you f---ing b---h,” Hancock is heard saying later. The video clip sent to Contact7 Investigates by an anonymous source is only about 20 seconds long and ends with 22-year-old Hancock driving away. Denver7 requested the full video from...

SANTA FE – About four years ago, a doctor probably helped Juliana Reyes Vasquez into the world. Now, a doctor is accused of ending her life. Juliana, 4, died early Saturday morning, about two hours after an alleged drunken driver struck a minivan at a Santa Fe intersection that carried the child, her 3-year-old sister Yeretez Jasmine Reyes Vasquez and their mother, Carla Vasquez Rivera. Mother and sister were both injured, but survived. Both girls were in the back seat and in car seats at the time of the crash, and both drivers were wearing seatbelts, according to police. Deborah...

BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) -- The wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was charged with drunken driving after a police officer saw her run over a curb outside a suburban school, authorities said Tuesday. Police had responded to the Kennedy home twice in the week before the arrest but said no crimes had been committed there.

Lindsay Lohan is about to see dead people. In June, the 21-year-old actress will visit the morgue as part of her punishment for misdemeanor drunken driving. "She's gonna see bodies. We'll have anywhere from 20 to 25 people in the class and she's treated like any other individual," Los Angeles County Coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter said Friday. Lohan has completed her rehabilitation and served 80 hours of community service with the American Red Cross, attorney Blair Berk said Friday. Berk appeared at a hearing Thursday to report to a judge on Lohan's progress. Lohan was arrested twice last year...

The Denver City Council planned to discuss changes to a limousine drivers ordinance that would keep sex offenders with drunken-driving records from getting licensed by the city. Witnesses said that Stanley D. Sample, of Lakewood, was driving the limo. He did not have a special license as required by the city and he is a registered sex offender, 7News reported. "As a parent, it just offended me to no end that he would disregard the court's order and the probation conditions and disregard the safety of these children," said Rosemary Rodriguez, the City Council president. Sample was arrested after the...

A Monterey County judge is in trouble with the state's disciplinary agency again, this time for allegedly violating the rights of drunken-driving defendants and increasing their jail sentences if they questioned his rulings. Superior Court Judge Jose Velasquez, elected in 1995, was censured by the Commission on Judicial Performance in 1997 for a variety of misconduct offenses, including accusing lawyers and fellow judges of racism for getting him removed from drunken-driving cases. The 47-year-old judge could be removed from the bench if the commission sustains the new allegations against him. In a 58-page document Thursday, the commission listed seven cases,...

In the wake of the scandalous reaction of the welfare underclass in New Orleans to the Katrina hurricane, a recent column by David Brooks in the NY Times was refreshing to read, but it probably bored most of its readers. Brooks pointed out that many good things have been happening in this country for the last few years, and they have spanned both Democrat and Republican administrations. He points out that: “The rate of family violence in this country has dropped by more than half since 1993. The decline in domestic violence is of a piece with the decline in...

Drunken driving death trial begins By Juliette Rule rep9@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - Decisions to drive drunk, speed and race through red lights had fatal consequences, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday on the first day of an aggravated vehicular homicide trial here. Ron Holland, 45, of Greeley, Colo., is accused of being the drunken driver who rammed into a mini-van on Father's Day, killing one person. Investigators calculated his speed at 55-62 mph, well over the posted limit of 45 mph. And one witness told police Holland ran two red lights before causing the fatal accident. From...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The state Ethics Board is investigating tavern industry lobbyists for charging Wisconsin lawmakers $5 for unlimited beer the night a senator was arrested for drunken driving. State Sen. Russ Decker was pulled over in a Madison suburb about three hours after he and other lawmakers were charged the $5 for food and beer at the Tavern League of Wisconsin's event, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at a downtown hotel. Roth Judd, director of the state Ethics Board, said he launched the investigation to see whether the event complied with state laws on lobbying. Lawmakers...

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) -- Atlanta Braves shortstop Rafael Furcal was cleared Wednesday to play in the postseason despite a probation violation on a drunken-driving charge. The ruling came hours before the Braves were to open their divisional playoff series with the Houston Astros. Furcal must remain in home confinement for the rest of the season. He has to return to a hotel if on the road, Judge David Darden said Wednesday. Furcal also must blow into a portable breath-testing machine when called by a monitoring service affiliated with the probation department. The machine, hooked up to a cell phone and...

Nichols takes critical look at Cheney in biography Associated Press Secret Service agents gave Dick Cheney a code name, "Backseat." In a four-decade career in politics, he has mostly kept a low profile, especially for someone who served as White House chief of staff, member of Congress, corporate CEO and now vice president. For long stretches, he has gone largely unseen, as during his small-town swings in the 2000 presidential campaign and his disappearance to a "secure, undisclosed location" after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Cheney's ability — and inclination — to fly below the news media radar has...

A North Side mother was charged with drunken driving after an accident that injured three of her children, one critically. Veronica Garcia Veloz, 42, of the 1600 block of Howard, was in serious condition Sunday at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, and her daughter Nancy, 11, was in critical condition there, a hospital spokeswoman said. Two other children, Karla, 10, and Paola, 8, were in good condition at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, a nursing supervisor said. It's just a shame that these children were victims of a bad mistake on the part of their mother,'' said Illinois...

 | PRINT THIS STORY  Lautenschlager to reimburse state for some mileage By GINA BARTONgbarton@journalsentinel.com Posted: March 26, 2004 Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager said today that she plans to reimburse the state for "something less than 2,000" miles that she placed on her state car last year. State Attorney General Photo/File State Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager. Recent Coverage Reaction: Lautenschlager flooded with words of support after arrest Ethics Board: Use of car comes under scrutiny (3/3/04) Punishment: AG's penalty falls in middle (3/10/04) Personal travel: Lautenschlager told to reimburse state (3/4/04) Ethics Board: No ruling yet on top cop's state car use...

JUNEAU - Wisconsin's top law-enforcement officer, Attorney General Peggy Lautenschlager, was arrested for drunken driving early Tuesday morning after she ran her state-owned car into the ditch on Highway 151 in Dodge County. < Lautenschlager, who refused to speak to reporters, acknowledged in a written statement that she was cited for drunken driving after she "fell asleep" while behind the wheel. The attorney general was not hurt, but the car received minor damage from hitting a snowbank just north of Columbus. < In a preliminary breath test given at the scene, Lautenschlager's blood-alcohol level registered 0.12 percent, or 50 percent...

<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. - San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jeff Garcia was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after being pulled over by San Jose State University police near campus early Wednesday morning, several media outlets reported.</p> <p>Campus police would not comment on the story Wednesday morning, but said a news release was expected about 8 a.m. PST. Santa Clara County officials could not immediately be contacted.</p>

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Released from prison, Ronald A. Mahner's first mistake was driving back to get his stuff. Mahner returned to the Seminole County Jail to reclaim his personal property four days after being released. He had served a sentence for drunken driving, auto theft and habitually driving with a suspended or revoked license. But when asked to provide identification, Mahner handed a sheriff's deputy his license, which after routine computer check was found to have been revoked for life. Deputy Teri Cresswell couldn't prove Mahner was doing anything illegal without seeing him behind the wheel, so she told...

<p>It will bring no comfort to the friends and family of Sharmelia Jeffries, but the tragic death of the 17-year-old Christian Brothers High School student at the hands of a repeat drunken driver is part of a disturbing national trend. After declining sharply in the in the early and mid-1990s, drunken-driving deaths have climbed for the third year in a row. Alcohol-related collisions, which accounted for 38 percent of traffic fatalities in 1999, the lowest percentage on record, have grown every year since then and made up almost 42 percent of traffic fatalities nationally last year.</p>