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Charges dropped against officer charged with DUI
Carroll County prosecutors have dropped DUI charges against a Baltimore County police captain. Forty-four-year-old Matthew McElwee of Hanover, Pa., was cited March 16 when he was stopped at a sobriety checkpoint in Hampstead. He was accused of driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and driving while impaired ...
Sentence in crash that killed 2 will be appealed
A prosecutor says he'll appeal the probation given to Kansas State University graduate student for a head-on crash that killed two people. KMAN-AM reports (http://bit.ly/14In3Ce ) Riley County Attorney Barry Wilkerson filed notice Tuesday that he'll seek prison time for 24-year-old Miles Theurer. The veterinary medicine student pleaded no contest ...
Officer says he's not guilty of bogus arrest
A New Jersey police officer has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of making a bogus drunken driving arrest of a politician last year. The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/16F3eLX ) reports that Washington Township officer Joseph DiBuonoventura entered the plea Monday. He could face decades in prison if he is ...
SC teen charged with felony DUI after collision
An 18-year-old Florence man is charged with felony driving under the influence after a woman was killed in a two-car collision in Florence. The Morning News of Florence reported (http://bit.ly/12GKT1P ) that Nicklas Surls was arrested by the South Carolina Highway Patrol in connection with the wreck Saturday. Surls was ...
Officers shoot man following chase in southwest SD
A suspected drunken driver was shot multiple times after allegedly brandishing a rifle following a half-hour police chase in southwestern South Dakota. Attorney General Marty Jackley says two Pennington County deputies and a Highway Patrol officer chased 43-year-old Travis Ross on Interstate 90 Monday afternoon. The officers used spike strips ...
Editorials from around Pennsylvania
THE VETERANS AFFAIRS/LEGIONELLA MESS: IT GROWS AND GROWS Just when you thought the Legionella scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs' hospitals in Pittsburgh couldn't get any worse, it explodes. As the Trib reported on Sunday, the bacteria that can lead to Legionnaires' disease were running rampant at the VA's ...
Great Falls woman charged with DUI in drive-thru
A Great Falls woman is charged with aggravated DUI after police say she was driving drunk at a fast-food drive-thru with her neighbor's young children in the car. The Great Falls Tribune reports (http://gftrib.com/19fHTd2 ) 43-year-old Stacy Dawn Rattray also was cited Sunday with felony driving under the influence and ...
Cops: man tried to bypass DUI device on his car
A Connecticut man is accused of asking other people for breath samples so he could bypass a DUI ignition device installed in his car after he was convicted of drunken driving. Clinton police charged 67-year-old Kenneth Palifka of Westbrook on Monday with avoidance of an ignition interlock device, which requires ...
2 paramedics, baby hurt in Houston ambulance wreck
Houston police have arrested a suspected drunken driver after his SUV allegedly ran a red light, hit an ambulance and knocked the emergency vehicle on its side. Houston police say the wreck early Tuesday left two paramedics who were in the ambulance and a baby boy in the SUV with ...
NY driver indicted in double fatal Thruway crash
Prosecutors say a man accused of killing two people in a Hudson Valley motorcycle crash has been indicted on homicide and drunken driving charges. Orange County District Attorney Frank Phillips says 24-year-old Luis Munoz of Ossining had a blood alcohol level of 0.15 percent, nearly twice the legal limit, when ...
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