For more than three months, Linda Smith has wondered how the man who police say was driving drunk and involved in a crash last year that killed her daughter could be pardoned for a previous felony drunken driving offense.
Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by police led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, pleaded guilty Monday to misdemeanor reckless driving in connection with his arrest in Moreno Valley last summer on suspicion of driving under the influence.
Pulled over for speeding in a construction zone, Alice Walton paid $1,000 bail
The actress must also install an ignition locking device on her car
The celebrity deejay faces two misdemeanor counts following her arrest last week
Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward is free on bond after his arrest in Georgia on DUI charges.
The "Jessie's Girl" rocker reportedly had a blood alcohol content of .10 when officers pulled him over Sunday night
Dashcam video shows actor David Cassidy failing a sobriety test and getting arrested for DUI.
A convicted drunken driver was sentenced Wednesday to 51 years to life in prison for a crash that killed Los Angeles Angel pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others, the Orange County, California, district attorney said.
Los Angeles Angels are stunned and saddened over the hit and run car crash death of pitcher Nick Adenhart.
Too many motorists stopped for suspected alcohol impairment have found that just saying no to a request for a roadside breath test improves their odds of beating a conviction, federal authorities say.
A South Florida jury found former World Series hero Jim Leyritz guilty of driving drunk Saturday but acquitted him of a more serious charge of DUI manslaughter.
The former teen star, now 60, spent nine hours behind bars before posting $350 bail
Brandi Glanville was pulled over on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills and failed a sobriety test
The American Pie actor is formally charged for his second drunk driving arrest
The American Pie star was pulled over early Wednesday in the San Fernando Valley
It is now a felony in New York to drive drunk or under the influence of drugs with a child in the vehicle, and will require first-time driving-while-intoxicated (DWI) offenders to install an ignition interlock device in their vehicles.
One year ago, a group of college and university presidents and chancellors, eventually totaling 135, issued a statement that garnered national attention.
Arrests for women driving under the influence jumped by nearly 30 percent during the decade ending in 2007, according to a study released Wednesday by the U.S. Transportation Department.
Fewer Americans are driving drunk, but roughly one in six drivers on weekend nights is on drugs, according to a data released Monday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration survey.
If convicted of his third drunken-driving offense, jail time is almost certain for the former TV host
Ex-NBA star Charles Barkley says he is disappointed in himself after his DUI arrest. CNN's Brooke Baldwin reports
Basketball commentator and former hoops star Charles Barkley was arrested Wednesday in Scottsdale, Arizona, on suspicion of drunken driving, a police spokesman said.
The former NBA star ran a stop sign and was cited in Scottsdale early Wednesday morning
Every day, unthinkable tragedies shatter the lives of many families. For Lisa and David, July 2, 2005, began as a perfect wedding day. More than 200 close friends and relatives gathered on the beach. Lisa's fondest memory of the day was of her nieces, 5-year-old Grace and 7-year-old Katie, dressed like princesses, throwing rocks into the Long Island Sound.
Paris's little brother is also charged with being an unlicensed driver
Like sister, like brother? Paris Hilton's 18-year-old younger brother, Barron Hilton, was arrested Tuesday morning on charges of driving under the influence and carrying a fake driver's license, authorities confirm.
Risky Business star Rebecca De Mornay must serve three years' probation after a no-contest plea was entered Tuesday in regard to her misdemeanor drunken driving charge.
Mischa Barton is speaking out for the first time since her DUI arrest last month.
A panel of nine men and three women is hearing evidence against Phil Spector in the 2003 death of actress Lana Clarkson. They include a journalist once assigned to the case, the estranged wife of a convicted murderer, a civil engineer working on his PhD and a Broadway actor-turned-film executive. The average age of the panel is 48, about two decades younger than the defendant.
Actress Rebecca DeMornay has been arrested for DUI in Beverly Hills, police confirm.
Daniel Dae Kim, the Lost star arrested in Hawaii Thursday on a DUI charge, says he's sorry.
Daniel Dae Kim is the latest Lost actor to be arrested for DUI, according to the Honolulu Advertiser.
Kiefer Sutherland has been formally charged with two misdemeanor counts of DUI, the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office announced Friday.
Kiefer Sutherland was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence early Tuesday morning in Hollywood, Los Angeles police department officials confirm.
John from Cincinnati star Austin Nichols was arrested in Michigan on Friday morning on suspicion of drunken
driving, the Jackson Citizen Patriot newspaper reports.
Lindsay Lohan reached a plea deal Thursday on misdemeanor drunken driving and cocaine charges that calls for her to spend one day in jail, serve 10 days of community service and complete a drug treatment program.
Lindsay Lohan will serve at least 24 hours in jail in her drunken-driving cases under the terms of a plea deal reached Thursday.
In what sounds like a scene out of his old movie Caddyshack, Bill Murray was pulled over by police in Sweden while cruising through downtown Stockholm in a golf cart, then refused to take breathalyzer test after police said they smelled alcohol, authorities said Wednesday.
Bill Murray could face a drunken driving charge after cruising through downtown Stockholm in a golf cart and refusing to take a breath test, citing U.S. law.
A new study says a simple state law that revokes drunk drivers' licenses has a significant deterring effect -- and can save 800 lives a year
Lindsay Lohan was arrested in Santa Monica, Calif., early Tuesday morning on suspicion of drunken driving after a brief car chase, authorities confirm to PEOPLE.
Allegedly under the influence and with a small amount of cocaine in her pants pocket, Lindsay Lohan was arrested after chasing the mother of her personal assistant in her car early Tuesday morning, Santa Monica police said.
Girl, 11, charged with DUI
Lindsay Lohan was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Saturday after her convertible struck a curb, and investigators found what they believe is cocaine at the scene, police said.
Ty Pennington was sentenced to 36 months probation, fined $1,500 and ordered to attend a 90-day alcohol education program after pleading no contest to driving under the influence of alcohol, Los Angeles City Attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan announced Friday.
US Airways CEO Doug Parker was sentenced to one day in prison Tuesday for driving under the influence of alcohol in Phoenix the night Delta Air Lines rejected a takeover bid from his company, a US Airways spokesman confirmed to CNN.
Actor Mel Gibson pleaded no contest on Thursday to a misdemeanor drunken-driving charge and has been sentenced to three years on probation, prosecutors said.
Mel Gibson was charged Wednesday with misdemeanor drunken driving, as well as driving with an elevated blood alcohol level and an open container of alcohol in his car, prosecutors said.
Actor-director Mel Gibson apologized Tuesday for making anti-Semitic remarks during his drunken driving arrest last week, saying the comments were "blurted out in a moment of insanity."
A spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on Sunday stood by his statement that Friday morning's arrest of actor Mel Gibson on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol occurred "without incident."
Actor and director Mel Gibson issued a statement on Saturday, apologizing to deputies for his "belligerent behavior" when he was arrested on suspicion of DUI in Malibu the day before.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving's efforts have cut into legal, social drinking, according to comments by a trade group of restaurant owners in a newspaper report Thursday, but the group is winning praise from an insurance group.
While prosecutors called several witnesses to convince jurors that two America West pilots operated a flight while intoxicated, the defense called just one witness Monday who testified that he, not the pilots, was in "full control" of the aircraft during the incident.
It's very likely that when Carol Ries was arrested for driving under the influence, she smelled better than most drunks.
Recently, in Nevada, 19-year-old Ryan Pisco drank beer at a party, got drunk, drove his car into a pole, and died. Now Ryan's mother, Jodie, is suing Coors Brewing Co. for allegedly causing Ryan's death.
The Federal Aviation Administration has revoked the license of a pilot who it says made a reckless four-hour flight last week over the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area.
The case of a pilot with a preliminary blood-alcohol ratio of 0.13 is raising legal questions after his erratic, four-hour flight over Pennsylvania and New Jersey on Friday.
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