Drunk Driving DUI Law

Las Vegas metro police said a Las Vegas woman was killed Sunday in a suspected DUI crash at the intersection of Rainbow Boulevard and Flamingo Road.
According to police, the crash occurred at 1:13 a.m., when a truck slammed into the side of a car.
Investigators said evidence at the scene and witness statements indicate that a [...]

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TMZ reported that Pamela Bach the ex-wife of actor David Hasselhoff  was arrested last night for DUI. The arrest follows ex-husband David Hasselhoff’s recent hospitalization over the weekend , when ambulances were called after a 911 call made by his daughter.
It is reported that Pamela Bach took a breathalyzer test and blew .14. She was [...]

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A motorized bar stool that got an Ohio man arrested for drunken driving goes up for auction this week on eBay.
Twenty-nine-year-old Kile Wygle was charged with driving under the influence after he crashed the contraption in March in the central Ohio city of Newark. He pleaded guilty the following month and spent three days in [...]

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County judge challenges state law allowing seizure of vehicles after Illinois DUI.
DuPage County Associate Judge Thomas C. Dudgeon ruled that a state law allowing police and municipalities to seize vehicles of Illinois DUI offenders is unconstitutional. The law is intended to penalize repeat DUI offenders caught driving with a suspended driver’s license. Dudgeon ruled that [...]

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“The Honolulu Police Department Wednesday began to post photos on its Web site of drivers suspected of drunken driving. In conjunction with its other traffic safety programs, the department inaugurated the program this week in advance of the holiday, when more drunken driving arrests are usually made.
`We are posting the photos to show that a [...]

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The Bakersfield Police Department was hoping Wednesday night to catch drivers who shouldn’t be behind the wheel by setting up a DUI checkpoint. However, the American Beverage Institute thinks police on patrol are more effective than the checkpoints.
Patricia Martinez says she wants every kind of patrol to catch drunk drivers so people don’t lose loved [...]

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None of the 113 people convicted since 2000 of serious drunken driving charges in Washoe County were ordered to install an alcohol-testing device in their cars, despite a state law requiring judges to do so, a Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found.
Department of Parole and Probation officials and prosecutors have not recommended the installation of ignition interlock [...]

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Prosecutors say John Kerry’s eldest daughter won’t be charged with drunken driving in Los Angeles.
Police arrested Alexandra Kerry in Hollywood last week on suspicion that she was driving under the influence.
Los Angeles city attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan says prosecutors declined to pursue a case due to insufficient evidence. He says they didn’t offer further details.
A [...]

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The wife of Sen. Richard Lugar was arrested in Virginia and charged with drunk driving and hit-and-run.
Charlene Lugar, 77, was pulled over in McLean Wednesday night after an officer noticed her car was trailing smoke and had front-end damage. Police believe that Mrs. Lugar had hit a parked car, according to the Washington Post.
She was [...]

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A Coastal Carolina University football player is in trouble with the law after police in Conway arrested him with driving under the influence.
According to J. Reuben Long Detention Center, Austin Jace Shirley, 22, of Myrtle Beach, was booked into the jail at 3:16 a.m. Friday.
Shirley, a red-shirt senior for the Chanticleers, serves as one of [...]

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