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A U.S. restaurant and liquor group used a mug shot of troubled actress Lindsay Lohan on Friday to launch a national campaign against the use of new technology aimed at keeping drunks off the road.

A full page advertisement in the newspaper USA Today used the police shot of Lohan after her arrest in Los Angeles last year for drunken driving under a caption saying "Ignition interlocks. A good idea for:" (Lohan) "But a bad idea for us:" showing pictures of adults drinking at weddings and restaurants.

The ad says ignition interlocks, which prevent intoxicated drivers from starting their cars, are "a great tool for getting hard-core drunk drivers off our roads."

’bout time we got some real news around here. Fresh off two rehab stints in the past year, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora was arrested for DUI last night in Laguna Beach. TMZ says:

Law enforcement sources tell us the Bon Jovi guitarist was pulled over by the Laguna Beach PD just before 11:00 PM last night. Cops say they observed him driving erratically in a black Hummer and pulled him over. He failed numerous field sobriety tests and was detained for DUI.

At the station Sambora opted to take a blood test rather than blow into a breathalyzer. Laguna Beach PD tells TMZ there’s no indication of drugs.

So you like photos like these? Have we got a shitload of mugshots for you!

Melissa Arrington will spend 10 years in prison because (a) she was driving drunk when she killed bicyclist Paul L'Ecuyer and (b) she was caught on tape laughing about his death.

Judge Michael Cruikshank said during a sentencing hearing that the conversation, which was recorded on a jail telephone, is "breath-taking in its inhumanity," according to the Arizona Daily Star.

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A sister of one of three people killed early Friday in Louisville said it "really isn't a shock to any of us" that her brother died in a high-speed crash.

"The thing that really makes me feel much better about this is they died doing what they loved to do — they were drinking, they were going fast and they were together," Lorie Flaherty said. "It gives me comfort, it does, to know those three things."

Her comments, first published in the Daily Camera over the weekend, set off a firestorm of comments on the newspaper's Web site.

A woman who injured nearly 50 people when she plowed her car through a street festival while high on crack cocaine was sentenced to 25 years in prison Tuesday.

Tonya Bell apologized to the victims, many of whom testified how their broken bones, scars and psychological wounds from the June 2 incident have had a profound impact on their lives, limiting their ability to work or pursue their life passions.

"I'm so sorry for the pain I caused," said Bell, who quivered at the defense table and wept often during the half-hour hearing. "It haunts me."

State police knew Amy Shellrude of Mahopac was drunk when she crashed her car on Route 35 last month.

They now know exactly how drunk she was.

A blood test taken at the Northern Westchester Hospital Center after Shellrude, 28, crashed her car showed that her blood-alcohol content level was 0.42 percent, police said today.

The legal threshold for drunken driving in New York is 0.08 percent, meaning that she was more than five times the legal limit when she crashed her car

Mike Tyson was sentenced Monday to 24 hours in jail and three years' probation for cocaine possession and driving under the influence.

The former heavyweight champion had pleaded guilty in September to a single felony count of cocaine possession and a misdemeanor DUI count.

"I take responsibility for my actions," Tyson told Superior Court Judge Helene Abrams in an almost inaudible voice before she handed down the sentence.

Tyson, who will begin serving his jail time Tuesday morning, left the courthouse without speaking to reporters

Actor Lane Garrison, who played an inmate on the television drama "Prison Break," was sentenced to three years and four months in prison on Wednesday for a drunken driving crash that killed a teenager.

Garrison, 27, pleaded guilty in May to vehicular manslaughter, drunken driving and providing alcohol to a minor after driving his Land Rover into a tree in Beverly Hills last December.

Two 15-year-old girl passengers were injured and 17-year-old passenger Vahagn Setian was killed. Garrison has said he met the teens at a store and was on his way to a party with them when the accident occurred.

24 Hero Kiefer Sutherland was arrested on misdemeanor drunk driving charges after failing a field sobriety test early Tuesday morning, police officials said.

Kiefer was pulled over in West Los Angeles after officers spotted him making an illegal U-turn, said Officer Kevin Maiberger.

Sutherland, 40, tested over the state's legal blood alcohol limit of .08 percent, and was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence, Officer Karen Smith said.

Former heavyweight world champion Mike Tyson could be facing jail again after admitting charges of drug possession and driving under the influence, court officials said Monday.

Tyson, 41, entered guilty pleas during a court appearance in Mesa, Arizona, after initially denying the charges at an earlier hearing, a spokeswoman for Maricopa County Superior Court confirmed to AFP.

Tyson could face up to four years and three months in prison according to the maximum sentence for felony drug possession and the misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence.

This is a serious yet funny news video. The reporter was following the suspect to see if he tried to drive following his hearing. Then, things got ugly.

A woman stopped by police for allegedly driving in circles in the grass in Des Moines on Wednesday morning was charged with drunken driving, assault on a police officer, interference with official acts and reckless driving.

Police said Danielle Joleen Brown, 21, of Des Moines, admitted consuming alcohol and did not deny doing donuts in the grass. Officers said she was uncooperative and easily distracted, happy and laughing one moment, then mad and serious the next.

Officers said she slipped her handcuffs and had to be removed from a squad car. They claim she reached toward an officer's groin with an open hand and tried to grab him. Brown was pushed forward by the officers and stumbled to the ground.

Volvo’s obsession with car safety is a fact known to all. The company has spearheaded many safety developments that are hot on the list today, including, the airbags. Close on the heels of the announcement of Volvo’s CWAB and DAC systems, comes another system to boost road safety, the Alcoguard.

Alcoguard shows three lights depending on the alcohol concentration detected. A green light appears for levels below 0.1g/l, while a yellow light appears for concentrations between 0.1g/l and 0.2g/l, the engine starts but the driver is told to avoid driving. For concentrations above 0.2g/l, a red led lights up and the engine will not start.

A woman was arrested on suspicion of letting her 5-year-old son drive her around while she was intoxicated, police said.

Holly Schnobrich (pictured), 24, of Lafayette, was charged with felony neglect and public intoxication after neighbors told police the boy was driving her and his 3-year-old brother in their subdivision early Sunday, authorities said.

Wendy Barrett, a resident of the Saddlebrook subdivision, said Weston Schnobrich was behind the wheel of a Mitsubishi Galant that stopped in front of her home.

Swedish police say Bill Murray could face drunken driving charges after rolling through downtown Stockholm in a golf cart.

Police said Wednesday that the actor smelled of alcohol when they pulled over his slow-moving cart.

When asked to blow into a breath test, he refused -- citing American laws, according to detective-inspector Christer Holmlund of the Stockholm police.

A Los Angeles woman who was in a car that Lindsay Lohan is accused of chasing through city streets in July has sued the troubled actress, claiming her behaviour could have caused injury or death.

Tracie Rice is seeking unspecified damages for assault and infliction of emotional distress by the 21-year-old actress, who was arrested and accused of criminal drunken driving and drug possession after the pre-dawn chase.

But what remains unclear is, if this woman was anywhere near any of the streets where Lohan drove...

Meet Charlotte Moore. The Nevada sheriff's deputy was pulled over for drunk driving Saturday night--by her own husband, a fellow cop.

The 36-year-old Moore, pictured in the below Elko County Sheriff's Office ID photo, was stopped by Deputy Mike Moore, at about 11:40 PM for some kind of moving violation. However, she allegedly left the scene before a Breathalyzer test could be conducted. Moore, driving a 2004 Pontiac Grand Am, was then pulled over again by her husband, who this time called for backup from the Elko Police Department

A man was arrested by deputies after a beer can was thrown from his truck and hit a deputy's car who was driving behind him, according to the Leon County Sheriff's Officce.

The man was driving down Capital Circle Northeast with a deputy right behind him. The beer can flew out of his truck, hit the pavement and bounced onto the patrol car, LCSO Lt. Marilee Smith said.

Orange Beach police arrested an 11-year-old girl Tuesday night and charged her with driving under the influence of alcohol after a high-speed chase that ended when the child flipped the Chevrolet Monte Carlo she was driving.

Assistant Police Chief Greg Duck said a patrol officer noticed the Monte Carlo speeding west along Alabama 182 near the Phoenix V Condominium tower Tuesday night at about 10:30. When the officer flicked on his lights and tried to pull the car over, it sped up.

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A motorist who admitted to police he had drunk up to 25 pints of lager before getting behind the wheel of his car has been spared a prison term.

Stuart Walker could not stand unaided and was unable to give a breathalyser test when police found him in a lay-by.

Walker, 60, of Ashbury Close, Cambridge, admitted driving while over the limit.

He was given a three-month jail term, suspended for two years, and was banned from driving for five years.

Lindsay Lohan has been nicked on suspicion of drink driving after causing a car crash in Beverly Hills.

The Mean Girls star was caught by cops after hitting a kerb with her flash Mercedes car.

Police also found a small amount of what they think is party drug cocaine in the vehicle.

You think LiLo could afford a taxi (or bus) home after a hard nights' partying!

A German man's attempt to take his driving test while drunk came to an abrupt end when his examiner directed him to a police station.

The man arrived for his test in the western town of Bendorf at 0830 on Tuesday morning, reeking of alcohol.

The examiner questioned the 27-year-old man but he denied having touched a drop, so the test commenced as usual.

But he found himself in the yard of a police station after the examiner decided he was driving erratically.

Paris Hilton will have a very unglamorous new address if prosecutors get their way: the Los Angeles County jail. The city attorney's office filed documents in Superior Court recommending the hotel heiress and TV star be jailed for 45 days for violating terms of her probation for an alcohol-related reckless driving conviction.

Prosecutors also want Hilton to stay away from alcohol for 90 days and wear a monitoring device that will chart whether she complies. And they are seeking to have her license suspended for an additional four months.

The recommendation will be reviewed by a judge when Hilton appears for a probation violation hearing on Friday. The judge can accept it or impose a different penalty. The maximum penalty is 90 days in jail.

A two-year-old who was left in the back seat of a car when her drunk father fell asleep while refuelling the vehicle called out "Bye, Daddy" after he was jailed for 18 months today.

At Waitakere District Court today Shannon Perenara, a 30-year-old Auckland labourer, was sentenced to 18 months in jail and disqualified from driving for three years, effective from today.

He was denied leave to apply for home detention.

The incident happened around 9am on March 24 when officers were called by a concerned Rotorua service station attendant who found Mr Perenara slumped at the petrol pump. Officers had to wait 40 minutes for him to wake up before he could be breath-tested.

It's not drunken driving in New Jersey if it involves a Zamboni.

A judge ruled the four-ton ice rink-grooming machines aren't motor vehicles because they aren't useable on highways and can't carry passengers.

Zamboni operator John Peragallo had been charged with drunken driving in 2005 after a fellow employee at the Mennen Sports Arena in Morristown told police the machine was speeding and nearly crashed into the boards.

Police said Peragallo's blood alcohol level was 0.12 percent. A level of 0.08 is considered legally drunk in New Jersey.

For the second time in a month, a man who told police he'd been drinking at a Hooters restaurant was arrested for drunken driving with his children.

Xavier Lucero, 38, was pulled over Sunday after several drivers reported him swerving across traffic and running other cars off the road, according to a Metro Court criminal complaint.

Lucero, whose 4- and 2-year-old sons were in his minivan with him, smelled of alcohol and said he couldn't keep his balance because of his high blood pressure, police said.

Lucero "was unable to spell his youngest child's name and for the date of birth of the oldest he stated, `July or August something, sometime,' " the arresting officer wrote. Lucero gave his 2-year-old's date of birth as "28 or before Christmas."

Meet Anna Clifford. The Tennessee woman, 25, was arrested early this morning on a drunk driving rap.

According to Memphis cops, Clifford was weaving across the road in a 2000 Chevy when she was pulled over at around 2:30 AM. A subsequent Breathalyzer test showed her blood alcohol content to be .10, above the state maximum of .08. Nothing special there. But the bust of Clifford, who celebrated her birthday yesterday, is notable for the view she afforded Shelby County sheriff's deputies when posing for the profile portion of her mug shot.

Shocking video you saw first on NBC Augusta. A man drives his SUV through the Augusta Mall like he was driving on the street!

That driver is in jail tonight charged with several serious crimes, including DUI.

"He drove through locked glass doors. Continued through the mall and made a left turn and proceeded toward where the new food court is. When he gets to the new food court, the vehicle turns right. The vehicle then drives through those glass doors and exits the mall," Lt. Tony Walden of the Richmond County Sheriff's Office said.

A trucker who had a lengthy record of driving offenses before causing a fatal crash on the Maine Turnpike has lost his driver’s license for good, Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap announced Wednesday.

Hewitt’s driving record, which included 63 convictions, 23 license suspensions and a previous fatal crash, outraged many Mainers and prompted the Legislature to crack down on motorists with suspended licenses who refuse to stop driving.