Woman Ties County Blood Alcohol Record
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TACOMA, Wash. - A Pierce County woman apparently tied a record for the amount of alcohol in her blood when the Washington State Patrol toxicology lab measured a blood-alcohol content of 0.50 two hours after she was arrested for investigation of drunken driving.
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Toxicology results show former major leaguer Jim Leyritz's blood-alcohol levels were nearly twice the legal limit the day he was involved in a fatal crash in December.
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JAY, Okla. - Police arrested a woman after finding marijuana in a Christmas card she tried to give her jailed boyfriend. Dawn E. Smith, 44, of Grove, was arrested in connection with the incident at the Delaware County Jail.
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LAKE JACKSON, Texas - A woman has been indicted on negligent homicide charges for allegedly giving her husband a sherry enema that killed him.  Michael Warner, 58, died last May after the enema caused his blood-alcohol level to rise to .47 percent.
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ADRIAN, Mich. - A woman arrested after failing a sobriety test and telling police she drank three glasses of Listerine has pleaded guilty to drunken driving.  Carol Ries, 50, was pulled over after she rear-ended another vehicle at a red light on Jan. 9.
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MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Nearly 1,000 people at high risk of getting the flu called a county phone bank yesterday to register for flu shots.
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Tank Johnsonâs blood alcohol level was below the legal limit when the former Chicago Bears tackle was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving June 22.
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Singer/actress/handbag designer/heiress Paris Hilton can now add another title to her resume: Defendant. Hilton was charged Tuesday with driving under the influence and scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 28 in Superior Court on charges of driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 percent, said Nick Velasquez, a spokesman for city prosecutors.
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The county that is home to the Food and Drug Administration took a first step yesterday toward buying prescription drugs from Canada, despite FDA warnings that such a practice would be illegal.
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Betty Ann Fischer has been old enough to buy liquor for more than 50 years. So the 71-year-old was a little surprised when a grocery store clerk asked her for ID before selling her a bottle of wine.
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_ An 83-year-old man from Westchester has tested positive for the West Nile virus, the first human case recorded in the county this year, the county health commissioner said Wednesday.
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Mischa Barton was arrested Thursday for investigation of driving under the influence after sheriff's deputies saw her car straddling two lanes of traffic.
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A 39-year-old Douglas County resident has the flu. The Douglas County Health Department ran confirmation tests on cultures Tuesday.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria  - Incredulous doctors made five blood tests on a drunken man to confirm he had a blood-alcohol content of 0.914, far above the usual life-threatening range, police and doctors said Tuesday.
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By Sara Israelsen Deseret Morning News  PROVO -- Police are now looking into other possible illegal activities by a woman arrested on suspicion of using her dead sister- in-law's name to sign checks.
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By Jan Hefler, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Sep. 12--A choir leader who served at three Gloucester County churches since the early 1990s has been charged with sex offenses against two teenage girls who sang in two of the choirs.   Frederick L.
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DALLAS -- A mentally ill Dallas County jail inmate was cut off from drinking water for nearly two weeks and denied psychiatric medication for almost two months, according to an internal investigation.