Drunk Driving DUI Law


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  • RGJ Special Report: Offenders Skirt DUI Law For Years

    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,…

  • No DUI charge for John Kerry’s daughter

    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…

  • Senator’s Wife Booked for Suspicion of DUI, Hit-and-Run

    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…

  • Police: Chanticleer arrested on DUI charge

    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…

  • N.Y. Assembly passes drunk driving bill

    A measure that significantly toughens penalties for drunken driving has passed the New York State Assembly and is headed to the upper chamber. The bill, which could reach the governor’s desk this week, makes it…

  • No plea in fatal Hawaii DUI case

    A three-time drunk driver accused of killing a motorcyclist in a vehicular collision in Waipahu last year balked at entering a guilty plea when he appeared in court yesterday morning. “I’m very confused,” Sia-osi Feleunga,…

  • Times Herald: Tougher DUI Laws Are Needed

    More than 1,000 Americans, including 110 Californians, die each month in what is easily the most preventable of disasters: Alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents. That’s nearly one-third of all highway fatalities nationally and about 35 percent…

  • Georgia Mayor Facing DUI Charges

    Hartwell Mayor-elect Jennifer Sudderth says her arrest over the weekend in Greenville is all a misunderstanding. Greenville police spokesman Jason Rampey said Sudderth, 36, a Hart County middle school teacher, was arrested Saturday morning inside…

  • ‘Hills’ Star Stephanie Pratt Pleads Not Guilty to DUI Charges

    The Hills star Stephanie Pratt did not show up in court Friday for a scheduled court appearance involving her arrest for DUI Oct. 18. Instead, she sent her lawyer, Jon Bryant Artz, to enter a…

  • Cobb County Officer Arrested for Georgia DUI

    Officer involved in hit and run accident while driving drunk. Lt. Robert McGee, with the Cobb County Police Department, was charged with driving under the influence in Georgia after he was in a hit and…