New York State would make it a felony to drive while intoxicated with a child in the vehicle and would require first-time convicted drunken drivers to...
AP | Posted 11.07.2009 | Home
SALEM, Ore. — Oregon police have charged a man with drunk driving after he called 911 to report his marijuana as stolen but the dispatcher could...
AP | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
TOMAH, Wis. (AP)-- A squad car video shows a Wisconsin lawmaker falling down during a sobriety test that led to his third arrest in less than a year o...
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 10.27.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A mother accused of drunkenly causing a high-speed wreck managed to pull her own 11-year-old daughter from the mangled, overturned ca...
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books
A couple of weeks ago, before the publication of Superfreakonomics, the follow up to the bestselling Freakonomics by New York Times "Freakonomics" col...
AP | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
DULUTH, Minn. — A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. A criminal complaint says 62-year-old De...
nydailynews.com | By Sarah Armaghan and Jonathan Lemire | Posted 10.11.2009 | New York
A car packed with young girls bound for a slumber party lost control and flipped over several times on the Henry Hudson Pkwy. early Sunday - and the m...
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living
Problem drinking is all too common. Solutions are clear and proven. But their use is rare. The safety, health and economic costs of problem drinking are legion.
nypost.com | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York
A boozed-up NYPD officer fatally mowed down a Brooklyn woman yesterday, and his passengers -- including a fellow off-duty cop -- fled the scene as the...
Peter Mehlman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Comedy
First, drinking. Then talking on the phone. Then text messaging. You'd think the government would cut back on its probes into highway accident-causing activities, but ... no dice.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home
Elena Bright Shapiro was a 20-year-old ballerina with a promising career ahead of her. She died Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, when the car she was driving w...
AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD, Quebec — A Canadian man has been sentenced to life in prison for mowing down a woman in a wheel chair as he drove drun...
breitbart.com | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
Toyota Motor said Monday it was developing anti-drunk driving equipment that would lock the ignition of a vehicle if high levels of alcohol are detect...
Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 09.23.2009 | Chicago
Over the past decade, DUI arrests of female drivers have shot up in Chicago, as well as across Illinois and the nation, new government figures show. ...
wsj.com | Associated Press | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- The number of women arrested for drunken driving has jumped nearly 30% in the past decade, the Transportation Department said Wednesday....
AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 09.19.2009 | New York
WASHINGTON — The number of women arrested for drunken driving has jumped nearly 30 percent in the past decade, a dangerous trend that was all to...
Deborah King | Posted 09.13.2009 | Home
Alcoholism: I know it all -- the secret stashes, the coffee cup that no one questions, the pride when men would say, "Wow, you can drink me under the table." The only solution is abstinence.
SaraKay Smullens | Posted 09.10.2009 | Living
Any of us can be pushed over the edge. For life is neither easy nor fair. But one way to hang on, and beat any demons, despite it all, is communication with those you love.
AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 09.08.2009 | New York
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Police investigating a head-on highway crash that killed a suburban mother and seven other people said Friday she was fine a...
AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 09.06.2009 | New York
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — She couldn't have been drunk and stoned. Her husband had never seen her intoxicated before. And there were absolutely no mar...
Juli Charkes | Posted 09.05.2009 | New York
Rates of mothers driving while drunk with their offspring in the car have risen steadily in suburban areas like Westchester -- to the point where police say they made it a priority focus.
Posted 09.03.2009 | New York
UPDATE 8/5, 4:33pm: The lawyer for the family of Michael and Guy Bastardi, two of the three victims in the car struck by Diane Schuler on the Taconic ...
Posted 08.30.2009 | New York
Footage of a drunk driver unsuccessfully trying to put out a car fire only to then climb back behind the wheel will be included in a new show on truTV...
Don Parker | Posted 08.23.2009 | Comedy
After declaring on Wednesday in Fresno that "marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit," Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office...
AP | Posted 07.24.2009 | Comedy
RICHFIELD, Wis. — A South Milwaukee man was accused of driving drunk after trying to use a golf cart to drive home nearly 40 miles away from the...
nytimes.com | JEREMY W. PETERS | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York