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DWI Among Women Jumps 29%
 DWI Among Women Jumps 29% 
Dec 7, 2011 8:36 AM CST

DWI Among Women Jumps 29%

As of 2004, 20% of all arrests were of females

(Newser) - The career of ex-FAA chief Randy Babbitt might be the latest casualty of a drunken-driving arrest, but a new report shows that DWI has an increasingly female face. The number of women arrested on suspicion of DWI shot up 29% between 1998 and 2007—up from making up only...

FAA Chief on Leave After DWI Arrest

Randy Babbitt was driving on wrong side of road, cops say

(Newser) - Seems FAA administrator Randy Babbitt may have been flying a little too high over the weekend: Police in northern Virginia charged the veteran pilot with drunk driving after they spotted him driving on the wrong side of the road Saturday night, reports the Washington Post . Babbitt was alone, not involved...

Woman Passes Out, Wakes Up, Runs Over Husband

Texas driver charged with DWI

(Newser) - A Texas woman passed out at a red light, awoke as her husband tried to rouse her, then drove off dragging him along outside the car, KDAF-TV reports. Police suspect 50-year-old Mary Jane Lane (yes, her real name) passed out while under the influence of prescription drugs at the stop...

Let's Do Away With Drunk-Driving Laws
 Let's Do Away With 
 Drunk-Driving Laws 
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Oct 16, 2010 7:00 PM CDT

Let's Do Away With Drunk-Driving Laws

Essay: They actually make roads more dangerous

(Newser) - Laws against drunken driving are admirable in intent, but a case can be made (with stats to back it up) that they actually make our roads less safe, argues Radley Balko in Reason . Measuring blood-alcohol levels is misguided given the vast differences in how individuals handle their booze. Police, meanwhile,...

Convicted of DWI, CEO Runs Company From Jail

Sixty-day sentence makes him first of publicly traded firm

(Newser) - First he drank. Then he drove. Then he was thrown in jail. Finally, Louis Lower, the 65-year-old CEO of Horace Mann Educators Corp., a publicly traded insurance company, decided to tell his board of directors that he would be unavailable for 60 days while he served his sentence in a...

Mom, Dad Get DWIs After Daughter's Traffic Stop

(Newser) - When a vehicle containing marijuana paraphernalia was stopped at a DWI checkpoint in New Jersey last weekend, two 18-year-old boys and two 15-year-old girls were inside, and police called their parents to pick up them up. First problem: When the 46-year-old mother of one of the girls showed up, police...

Driver Gets DWI After 11-Mile Ride Sans Tire

Oh, and he's been unlicensed since 1977. And couldn't keep right

(Newser) - So your blood-alcohol content is 3.5 times the limit and you haven't had a driver's license in 33 years—let's go for a drive! And so a tire falls off—let's keep going 11 miles without it! Western New Yorker Duane Bush is charged with doing just that, along...

RFK Jr. Divorcing DWI-Charged Wife

Alleged drunk driving came three days after filing

(Newser) - Mary Kennedy’s May 15 DWI arrest didn’t come out of nowhere: Turns out her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had filed for divorce on May 12. Rumors of marriage trouble came bubbling to the surface soon after the DWI; police had been called to the couple’s New...

Marriage Drama for RFK Jr
 Marriage Drama for RFK Jr 
May 28, 2010 11:20 AM CDT

Marriage Drama for RFK Jr

Wife's DWI a sign of how bad it is, friends say

(Newser) - In the wake of Mary Kennedy’s DWI arrest , rumors of trouble in her marriage to Bobby Kennedy Jr. are bubbling to the surface. “It's no big surprise that she's drinking. She has problems, and in the past couple of years—certainly the last year—it’s gotten worse,...

RFK Jr's Wife Charged With DWI
 RFK Jr's Wife Charged With DWI 
May 19, 2010 7:27 AM CDT

RFK Jr's Wife Charged With DWI

Mary Kennedy found drunk driving at a school

(Newser) - Another Kennedy is making alcohol-related headlines: This time it’s Mary Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was arrested for drunk driving Saturday. Kennedy, 50, jumped a curb outside a New York school where, she told police, she was picking up “some people” from a carnival. She...

Recession Cuts Into Prison Sentences

States opt for cheaper routes to justice

(Newser) - With the recession squeezing their finances, many states are opting to cut the high costs surrounding incarceration—meaning fewer criminals are heading to jail and prison, and more are getting out earlier, the Washington Post reports. Some states are sending drug offenders and drunk drivers to special courts that allow...

Drunk Golf-Cart Driver Charged in Accident

Minn. man faces vehicular-homicide rap after friend's fatal fall

(Newser) - A 47-year-old Minnesota man is facing vehicular-homicide charges after a friend fell from the golf cart he was driving while intoxicated Friday and died. The 41-year-old passenger fell backward from the rear of the moving cart after a fireworks display at a campground. He struck his head on a paved...

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