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Pa. state police suspend breath tests in DUIs Comments

By Tom Infield The Philadelphia Inquirer DAUPHIN, Pa. — Pennsylvania state police have temporarily suspended the use of breath test machines in drunken driving cases because of a judge's concern ...

Drunk drivers' high-tech nemesis checks the air for booze Video

RT.comMOSCOW — Drunk drivers in Russia from now on face a brand-new nemesis — a laser device which detects alcohol in the air of your car with sophisticated precision. This brainchild of Russian ...

NM, other states, embark on 'saturation' DWI patrols Comments

The New Mexico State Police and Luna County Sheriff's Office will conduct saturation patrols and checkpoints in the 100 Days and Nights of Summer project. ...

Study: 1 in 12 Americans admit drunk driving Comments

One in five, or 20 percent of the 6,999 people surveyed, said they had driven in the past year ...

The low price for DWI deaths in Dallas Comments

Although Dallas is a leader in alcohol-fueled traffic deaths, many offenders spend little or no time behind bars ...

Trooper charged with DUI in pickup truck Comments

Randy Ludlow The Columbus DispatchPICKAWAY COUNTY, Oh — A State Highway Patrol trooper who last year was caught driving his motorcycle at 97 mph now has been charged with drunken driving after refusing ...

Breath-test technology heads to Ma. courtroom Comments

By Conor Berry The Pittsfield Berkshire EaglePITTSFIELD, Ma. — The Berkshire County attorney leading the local charge for an official legal opinion about the efficacy and accuracy of the alcohol-detection ...

Drug field tests reduce lab backlog

Across the country, many drug investigations, a number of them straightforward possession cases, are not prosecuted or are dismissed because crime labs have too many drug samples to analyze, which causes large backlogs and significant delays. The Field Investigation Drug Officer (FIDO) program can help. ...

Research questions effectiveness of sobriety checkpoints Comments

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If you were driving one of the 18,747 vehicles Kansas City police stopped at drunken-driving checkpoints last year, odds are you weren't arrested. In fact, only 1.6 percent of ...

Fear, not weak laws, cut down on drunk driving

T.R. Fehrenbach San Antonio Express-News, Texas The U.S. is not the only country to suffer from DWI; the problem is inherent wherever there are cars and booze. Sweden, however, is one nation that largely ...

N.M. traffic stop leads to divisive court ruling Comments

BY Jeff Proctor Albuquerque Journal There's an inkling of "The Dukes of Hazzard" in the case against Juan Marquez. The whole thing started as an attempt at a routine traffic stop - ostensibly ...

Keeping your DUI protocol in check

Americans generally have zero tolerance for drunk drivers. M.A.D.D., S.A.D.D., your next-door neighbor — nobody wants drunk drivers on the road, and stringent laws are in place to ensure this.

You have to go pretty far out of your way to bungle a DUI case — yet it happens far too often.

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DUI grant to steer impaired drivers off the road in Tenn.

HORN LAKE, Tenn. — Horn Lake police have received a $52,193 grant to improve enforcement of drunk driving laws, and $9,000 extra to help coordinate DUI enforcement in Northwest Mississippi. ...

Baltimore corporal hailed for traffic enforcement Comments

By Justin Fenton Baltimore Sun BALTIMORE, Md. — Described as a hard-working police officer and a true team player, Cpl. Eric Trumbauer lived up to the humble billing . After being named Officer of the ...

Renaissance police: Va. officer's commitment recognized with award

The Virginian-Pilot NORFOLK — Senior Police Officer Chris Butler was recognized as Suffolk's Top Cop at the Hampton Roads Regional Crime Lines Top Cop awards dinner earlier this month. Police officers ...

DUI checkpoints praised as deterrent but don't yield the most arrests in Va.

RICHMOND, Va. — On a moonlit spring evening in Mechanicsville, a detail of Hanover County sheriff's deputies and state troopers figured the timing was right. ...

Lawyers challenge breath test machine Comments

BY CURT ANDERSON Associated Press MIAMI - Timothy Muldowny's lawyers decided on an unconventional approach to fight his drunken driving case: They sought computer programming information for the Intoxilyzer ...

Tenn. police statewide get new breath testers

By Candice Combs, Staff Writer Tennessee authorities are giving police departments statewide new breath alcohol testers to help detect impaired drivers. "Every county is guaranteed to get one," said Jennifer ...

New DUI test holds up in court

Field sobriety tests -- reciting the alphabet, walking a straight line, blowing into a portable Breathalyzer -- go a long way in determining if a driver is drunk. But these tests do not provide legal ...

Study: Gasoline additive interferes with alcohol breath analyzers

A study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health says that very high exposure to a gasoline additive, methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), can trigger a false positive reading on some breath-alcohol ...