Cinco de Mayo has become a deadly holiday due to impaired driving, especially with alcohol. Mixing your drink with driving is dangerous and deadly. Even a few drinks can impair your judgment and increase your risk of getting arrested for driving drunk or worse, causing a crash and killing yourself or someone else. The California Office of Traffic Safety wants to remind everyone to celebrate the holiday with caution. Before the party starts, make a plan for how to get home safely and stay out of jail.
Although ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft have recently attracted controversy from customers, cab companies and disgruntled ex-drivers, there's one area in which they might be making an unqualified positive impact: drunk driving incidents.
Specifically, preventing them. Steven Adams, a defense attorney, used to specialize in DUI defense but said the rise of the sharing economy has forced him to diversify.
Grape growing and winemaking in India trace back to the Bronze Age, when Persian traders brought the practice to the region. Soon it became common throughout the area to find wine made from grapes or fermented grain beverages. Winemaking was widespread under British rule during the 19th century. However, phylloxera at the beginning of the 20th century, along with government disapproval, nearly wiped out the industry.
A heavily lobbied measure that would remove a Depression-era "wall" separating the sale of liquor and groceries was positioned — after more than two hours of discussion Tuesday — for a final House vote as soon as Wednesday.
Lawmakers are considering a proposal to keep medical marijuana regulation under the Oregon Health Authority through a new cannabis commission.
Legislators on the Joint Committee on Marijuana Regulation took testimony Tuesday evening on a recently amended version of a bill that initially proposed to merge the state's medical and recreational marijuana programs under the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
Wisconsin law enforcement officials are turning to the state legislature for help to prohibit adults from hosting underage drinking parties, after a court ruling made 54 local government prohibitions unenforceable.
On October 26, 2016, the Wisconsin Appeals Court ruled a social hosting ordinance in Fond du Lac County could not apply to a high school graduation party at a home where adults allowed other people's underage children to drink alcohol, because it was not consistent with state law.
Martin Dean Dupalo has owned a home in the east valley since 1980 and said he isn't opposed to growth, but he has grown increasingly frustrated with the direction it has taken. He partly blames a substance that's found in spades in Sin City.
"As more liquor stores and other places people could get packaged liquor came to the neighborhood, I started seeing more drunk drivers," Dupalo said. "They leave literal scars in my neighborhood, in the form of broken walls and smashed cars that drunk drivers have crashed into."
Coming soon to Utah restaurants that serve alcohol: Signs that say they are not bars.
And coming soon to Utah bars: Signs that say they are not restaurants.
The state alcohol commission approved the signs Tuesday to comply with a new state law requiring those establishments to clearly tell customers what they are.
Getting caught texting and driving could hurt a lot more if certain bills pass the Oregon legislature.
Hermiston municipal judge Thomas Creasing outlined new traffic-related laws being considered by the legislature during a city council work session Monday.
He said both the Senate and House are considering upping the penalties for a first-time offense to as much as $2,000. Senate Bill 2 as currently written would make texting and driving a misdemeanor that could include jail time for second and third offenses.
Nile Breweries Limited (NBL) wants government to stop increasing taxes on beer and instead focus more on the bigger challenge of tackling illicit alcohol, which denies government revenue.