DUI News Digest

If you’ve only had a couple of beers with your pizza or margaritas with your taco salad and you’re confident you’re sober enough to legally drive, think again. Just because your blood alcohol content is below the legal limit of .08 percent, you’re not necessarily home free. Georgia law states that “a person shall not drive or be in actual physical control of any moving vehicle while under the influence of alcohol to the extent that it is less safe ... Read More »

CUMBERLAND, R.I. (WPRI) — A Cumberland man is free on bail after being arrested and charged with driving under the influence four times in less than 48 hours. Police are now looking for legislative help to keep drunk drivers off the streets after they said John Lourenco crashed three times while driving drunk this week – once in Providence, and twice in Cumberland. Read More »

Some portions of the new drug policy will be retroactive. Some won’t. Browns receiver Josh Gordon has pleaded guilty to driving while impaired. Under the new drug policy, a first offense will trigger a two-game suspension. Under the old drug policy, a first offense ordinarily results in no suspension and a maximum fine of $50,000. Read More »

Earlier this month, the state highway patrol and local law enforcement officers conducted a “No Refusal Weekend,” in which motorists who were suspected of driving impaired and refused sobriety tests could be ordered by a judge to submit to a blood test. The blood test was done by a registered nurse on call at the jail after the judge, who has been notified beforehand of the initiative, determines that there was probable cause to believe the driver was impaired. But ... Read More »

Miami Hurricanes quarterback Kevin Olsen was charged early Monday morning with driving under the influence and possessing a fake or stolen identification. He was held on $6,000 bond, but according to ABC affiliate WPLG, Olsen posted bond and was released early Monday afternoon. Read More »

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A state drunken driving prevention program says Mesa County drivers who were arrested for driving under the influence had the highest blood-alcohol levels of any county in Colorado in 2013. Read More »

A court ruling says Arizona prosecutors can’t use the results of warrantless blood-alcohol tests as evidence against people who are threatened with arrest when they refuse to go to a hospital. The state Court of Appeals on Thursday overturned a woman’s convictions and ordered that she be given a new trial in a drunken-driving case in Yavapai County. Read More »

Get arrested for DUI in Pennsylvania, and you’re more likely to wind up back on the road drunk than in most other states. A March study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that across the country, about one in every four people who were convicted for drunken driving was a repeat offender. Read More »

Detroit Pistons forward Greg Monroe was suspended without pay by the NBA today for the first two games of the upcoming regular season. Monroe pleaded guilty to impaired driving April 23 stemming from a February incident in Huntington Woods, according to Oak Park 45th District Court documents. Read More »

LANCASTER – Witnesses at a state Senate committee hearing Monday called for a dramatic strengthening of DUI laws, saying current statutes are too weak to stop repeat offenders who endanger everyone. Patrick Crowley, whose 24-year-old son Liam was killed last year by a man prosecutors called the worst drunk driver in Chester County, testified that people are dying because of Pennsylvania’s lax laws. Read More »