Alcohol
Minn. judge pleads guilty to DWI, seeks retirement
A Dakota County judge has pleaded guilty to DWI after his Christmas Eve arrest in St. Paul. Judge Michael Sovis of Apple Valley pleaded guilty Wednesday to third-degree driving under the influence. Another DWI count was dismissed. Sovis was arrested Christmas Eve after hitting several parked cars in St. Paul. ...
Former Boulder DUI officer pleads guilty to DUI
A former Boulder police officer who was assigned to enforce drunken-driving laws has pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, with a blood-alcohol level of more than 0.2. The Daily Camera reports (http://bit.ly/12Xc44Z ) Elizabeth Ward was sentenced Wednesday to 10 days of electronic home monitoring, one year of probation, ...
Russian drunk driver who killed orphans sentenced
A Russian drunken driver who sparked a nationwide debate after killing seven, including five orphan children, in a road accident last year has been sentenced to prison. Moscow's Nikulinsky court ordered Alexander Maximov to serve eight and a half years Wednesday. Maximov scandalized Russia last fall when he crashed his ...
Weston man in court for 8th OWI
A man is facing his 8th drunken driving charge in Wisconsin. Twenty-nine-year-old Cole Knapp is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Wednesday in Marathon County. He's accused of driving while intoxicated, operating while revoked and obstructing an officer. A criminal complaint says a Rothschild officer tried to pull Knapp over for ...
Turkey: 4 sentenced over fake liquor deaths
Turkey's state-run news agency says a Turkish court has sentenced four people to 83 years in prison each for the deaths of five Russians from bootleg alcohol poisoning. The Russians died in 2011 after consuming bootleg liquor during a yacht tour in the Aegean Sea. They were in Turkey training ...
Neb. man sentenced for wrong-way exit while drunk
A 38-year-old Lincoln man who was drunk when he drove the wrong way down an Interstate 180 exit ramp has been sentenced to up to five years in prison for his third DUI. The Lincoln Journal Star reports (http://bit.ly/11aJZUM) that Chad Faden was sentenced Tuesday in Lancaster County District Court. ...
Barbara Walters' daughter charged with DUI in Fla.
The daughter of broadcast journalist Barbara Walters has been charged with driving under the influence in southwest Florida. The Collier County Sheriff's Office reports that 44-year-old Jacqueline Walters Danforth was arrested early Sunday and later released on $1,000 bail. Deputies reported finding Danforth and a male passenger in an SUV ...
Vt. teen pleads guilty in fatal crash
A St. Albans, Vt., teenager has changed his plea to guilty in a fiery drunken driving crash that killed his passenger. Seventeen-year-old James Companion pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one count of driving under the influence with death resulting. Twenty-year-old Tasha Maring of Colchester was killed when the car crashed ...
NY judge refuses to dismiss Kerry Kennedy case
Kerry Kennedy, the ex-wife of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is likely to go on trial in the fall after a town judge refused to dismiss a drugged-driving case against her Tuesday. Kennedy "cut a wide swath of danger and risk" on July 13 as she drove her Lexus on Interstate 684 ...
Woman pleads guilty to DUI in fatal DC car crash
A District of Columbia woman has pleaded guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and driving under the influence as a result of a fatal traffic accident in late April. The U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. says 49-year-old Maria N. Werts pleaded guilty Tuesday. According to prosecutors, Werts was drinking malt ...
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