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Drunk driving: Why is MADD among critics of lower alcohol limit?
The National Transportation Safety Board is proposing that the legal limit for a driver's blood-alcohol content be reduced from 0.08 to 0.05. Critics say it's the wrong focus for anti-drunk driving efforts.
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Bobby Brown DUI sentence: 55 days in jail, 18 months alcohol treatment
Bobby Brown was sentenced to to 55 days in a Los Angeles jail and four years of probation for drunk driving. Bobby Brown is considered a pioneer of New Jack Swing music.
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Drunk driving: Supreme Court considers whether forced blood tests are OK
The case, which the Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday, pits the requirements of the Fourth Amendment against the need for effective enforcement of drunk-driving laws nationwide.
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Drunk driving: Can blood-alcohol test be forced? Case reaches Supreme Court.
The justices will hear arguments Wednesday in the case of a drunk driver forced to submit to a blood test. State supreme courts are divided on whether that violates the Fourth Amendment.
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Pilot arrested after flunking blood-alcohol test
Pilot arrested after blood-alcohol test: An American Eagle pilot failed a blood alcohol test in Minneapolis. About 10,000 pilots are given a drug and alcohol test annually. Federal rules prohibit pilots from flying within eight hours of drinking or having a blood-alcohol level of 0.04 percent or higher,
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Latin America Monitor Brazil: As prison populations grow is it time to rethink policy on drugs?
A new São Paulo think tank is urging Brazilians to rethink the country's drug policy. Brazil's drug law changed in 2006, but many say it has backfired as the drug-related prison population has boomed.
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Commerce secretary resigns after bizarre hit-and-runs
John Bryson resigned less than two weeks after suffering a seizure and a pair of car accidents in Los Angeles.
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Commerce secretary will take leave of absence after hit-and-runs
John Bryson, the US Secretary of Commerce, was involved in two hit-and-runs on Saturday. Now, he is taking a leave of absence for medical reasons possibly related to the cause of the accidents.
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$1 million supercar crashed by Mr. Bean
$1 million supercar crash: actor Rowan Atkinson, who played Mr. Bean and Blackadder, crashed his McLaren F1 $1 million supercar but walked away from the accident and will face no criminal charges.
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