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HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a man drove drunk to a New Jersey police station where he was picking up a woman who had been charged with drunken driving. Hackettstown police say 21-year-old Morgan Doran, of Netcong, was arrested early Friday after a traffic stop. She was taken to the station where authorities say […]

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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Ethan Couch, who as a 16-year-old driver drunkenly struck and killed four pedestrians but dodged prison after suggesting at trial that his irresponsibility was a result of his entitled upbringing, walked free Monday after serving almost two years in a Texas jail on a parole violation. Couch, 20, was released […]

08/22/17- On this week of Seriously Ignorant News Damon Williams reports about a  man who may be on the road to sobriety. This driver lost control when his car hit a sign and flipped over an embankment. The sign read,”Report Drunk Drivers Call 911.” If that’s not a wake-up call from God then we don’t know […]

A 22-year-old is dead after being rear ended by an allegedly drunk off-duty NYC officer. PIX 11‘s Samantha Tata reports: Vanessa Raghubar, 22, was pronounced dead on Monday, police said. She was behind the wheel of a Honda when shortly after 4 a.m. on Sunday when the driver of a Mercedes Benz rear-ended her car, causing […]

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LAKEWOOD, Ohio (AP) — The mother of a 12-year-old Ohio boy who called 911 from inside a car to report that she was driving drunk has been convicted of child endangering and driving violations. Cleveland.com reports Lakewood police stopped the disoriented driver May 28 after the boy called police to say his mother was behind […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The mother of a fugitive teenager known for using an “affluenza” defense in a deadly drunken-driving case agreed Tuesday to be sent from California to Texas to face a charge. Tonya Couch, 48, said very little at an extradition hearing in downtown Los Angeles, where she was flown after being deported […]

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Ohio State quarterback  J. T. Barrett pleaded guilty Tuesday to a count of driving while impaired and was sentenced to a three-day driver-intervention program and fined $400. His license was also suspended for six months, reports the AP. The 20-year-old apologized to his family, his school and OSU football fans in a brief statement at […]

Even his supervisors categorized him as being “wasted” and promptly sent him back to his hotel room.

HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — State police say a drunken driving suspect ran away from the scene of a central Pennsylvania crash but was found on a nearby barn roof — naked — and arrested once he fell off. Online court records don’t list an attorney for 20-year-old Daquan Tate, of Hollidaysburg. State police say he […]

On Friday evening, actor John Stamos was arrested for driving under the influence in Beverly Hills. Though it’s pretty hard to believe that the loveable guy…

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SPARTA, N.J. (AP) — A man poured water onto a freezing road to try to fool officers into thinking the cause of his drunken car crash was black ice, police say. Twenty-year-old Bryan Byers, of Sparta, was arrested Saturday and charged with drunken driving and other offenses. Authorities say he hit a guardrail after running […]

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DALLAS (AP) — Former Dallas Cowboys tackle Josh Brent was released from jail on Sunday following his conviction for a drunken car crash that killed his friend and teammate, Jerry Brown, the Dallas County sheriff’s office said. The 26-year-old Brent was convicted in January of intoxication manslaughter for the December 2012 crash that killed Jerry […]