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State Senator Faith Winter arrived late and drunk to a pubic meeting .. She slurred her words and scrolled on her phone at the halfway-house hearing.. ... A Democratic Colorado State Senator announced she is getting substance abuse treatment after she arrived late to a public hearing late, intoxicated, slurred her words and scrolled on her phone while community members talked. Faith Winter, the assistant senate majority leader, was nearly 10 minutes late on Wednesday to a community hearing in Northglenn about a plan to open a halfway house for sex offenders near an elementary school. When she walked in...

Accused DUI killer Jamie Komoroski has been granted bail and will be released from jail less than a year after she plowed her car into a golf cart, destroying a newlywed couple’s lives, The Post has learned. Komoroski, 26, posted $150,000 bond on Friday and is expected to be released today and placed under house arrest in Charleston County, South Carolina, with a SCRAM ankle monitor, according to jail records and sources close to her case. The device is worn by “DUI and high-risk alcohol clients” as an ankle bracelet and tests the person’s sweat for alcohol 24/7, according to...

A Jersey Shore police chief was suspended after reportedly showing up drunk to an accident scene and getting into a scuffle with one of his own officers — who later slammed his boss onto the hood of a police cruiser and told the chief to leave before he “gets a problem.” The confrontation between Bradley Beach Police Chief Leonard Guida and Sgt. William Major erupted on the night of Nov. 9, when the chief allegedly walked up to a suspected drunk driving crash on Main Street and began berating Major about his uniform, according to bodycam footage obtained by TAPinto,...

A Florida woman has found herself behind bars after she allegedly barged into a gas station while naked and drunk, threatening to kill staff members with a peeler/corer knife. Celia Barrett, 35, was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault, disorderly intoxication, criminal mischief, exposure of sexual organs and trespassing after the incident that unfolded at the RaceTrac at 2551 54th Ave. in St. Petersburg, according to an arrest affidavit from the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. Barrett, who was previously trespassed from this gas station back in November, returned on Sunday evening after taking six shots of liquor,...

A senior ally of President Vladimir Putin warned on Friday that Moscow would regard any move by Britain to deploy a military contingent to Ukraine as a declaration of war against Russia. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, made the comments in response to a visit by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to Kyiv to announce an increase in military funding to help Ukraine purchase new military drones. "I hope that our eternal enemies - the arrogant British - understand that deploying an official military contingent to Ukraine would be a declaration of war...

A senior ally of President Vladimir Putin warned on Thursday that any Ukrainian attacks on missile launch sites inside Russia with arms supplied by the United States and its allies would risk a nuclear response from Moscow. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said that some Ukrainian military commanders were considering hitting missile launch sites inside Russia with Western-supplied long-range missiles. He did not name the commanders or disclose more details of the alleged plan and there was no immediate reaction from Ukraine to his threat.

As odd as it might seem, a train conductor confirmed to Cowboy State Daily that grizzly bears and other wild animals frequently get intoxicated on fermented grain spilled from rail cars, and too many of them end up getting killed as a result. Paul Summers told Cowboy State Daily he’s seen it with his own eyes. “Especially in the summertime, it’s common to see bears, including grizzlies, drunk on grain. You will see them wobbling,” he said. “You will see them staggering.” In fact, he said the bears’ own stubbornness often works against them, as they don’t want to move...

A drunk woman who trashed a New York fries restaurant after being asked to pay $1.75 extra for sauce is now suing a car wash, claiming she 'fell down a drain' shortly after they refused to clean her friend's egg-covered car at 3am. Chitara Plasencia and her two friends were arrested and charged with robbery, criminal mischief and criminal possession of a weapon after starting a violent food fight inside the Bel Fries fast food restaurant on Manhattan's Lower East Side in July 2022. A viral video of the chaotic incident shows the women twerking on the counter and hurling...

A former Georgia lawmaker is planning to sue Clayton County for ousting her from her position after she was filmed screaming at medics who allegedly found her passed out drunk outside of a sports bar. Felicia Franklin announced that she is filing the suit for wrongful termination after county officials voted unanimously to dismiss her from her position as Board of Commissioners vice chair over the September altercation, which was recorded on police-worn body cameras, according to the Daily Mail. Franklin — who is also running for the county chairman position — claims in the lawsuit that the “traumatic and...

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A driver who is accused of killing her passenger when she lost control and crashed her Porsche on a Washington freeway - while allegedly drunk - has left the country. Ting Ye, 26, was charged with vehicular homicide and bail was set at $2million - but she quickly fled to her home country of China before she could be apprehended. New traffic camera footage showed the horrific moment Ye allegedly drove the white sports car at 100mph and crashed the vehicle on September 30. She mangled her Porsche 911 around 4am after it went flying through the air near 108th...

Sixties folk singer Donovan Leitch has been convicted of a charge of dangerous driving in Skibbereen, County Cork, with the offense taking place on 11 February after he attended a prerecording of the Tommy Tiernan Show. However, Leitch, aged 77, with an address at Castlemagner, Kanturk in County Cork had a charge of failing to provide an intoxilyzer sample to gardaí on the same occasion dismissed by Judge James McNulty at Skibbereen District Court. Judge McNulty said that the accepted the validity of evidence of respiratory consultant Professor Oisin O’Connell. Professor O’Connell, who carried out a series of tests on...

A 'drunk' woman who hurled xenophobic abuse at a group of German tourists on a New York train has been revealed as a high-flying recruitment specialist in Manhattan. Brianna Pinnix, 30, from New York, works as a senior talent acquisition specialist at Capital Rx, specializing in technology recruiting, according to her now-deleted LinkedIn page. Pinnix was caught on video screaming at a group of German tourists on a New Jersey Transit train earlier this week. During the confrontation, Pinnix is seen becoming increasingly aggressive towards the group of young travelers before shouting 'lets not let immigrants take up our country...how...

Three Russian soldiers blew themselves up in a grenade explosion after getting drunk during a resupply run in Russia's southwestern Voronezh region, according to local media reports. The three servicemen died in a house in the city of Rossosh, and a further two were injured, according to the Telegram channel of independent Russian-language news outlet Astra, and the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, which has close ties to Russian security forces. The news comes nearly 19 months into Russian President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Publicly available data released by Kyiv's military indicates that more than 270,000 Russian troops have been...

Is it possible to run a daily television program without succumbing to workplace toxicity? In the last few years, we’ve seen exposés from the sets of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, and Dr. Phil, featuring accusations of bullying leadership styles and deteriorating mental health among staffers. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon can now be added to that number, as more than a dozen current and former staff members from that show have spoken to Rolling Stone about a culture of fear and anxiety behind the scenes that largely stems from Jimmy Fallon’s own “erratic” behavior. The...

The woman charged with drunkenly crashing into a golf cart, killing a just-married South Carolina bride, was visibly upset in court Tuesday as a judge refused to spring her from jail. Jamie Lee Komoroski, 25, breathed heavily and looked close to tears when she appeared at the proceedings via video. The New Jersey native was dressed in a striped prison jumpsuit as Circuit Judge Michael Nettles ruled that she will remain in custody while awaiting trial on a slew of charges related to the April 28 wreck that killed Samantha Miller, 34, and left the groom and two others seriously...

A Mi-26 helicopter has an accident by crashing into a lighting pole at Yakutsk air base, causing its tail to fall off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIy4y5NkC_c

An 18-month-old Florida girl “baked to death” after police said her parents left her alone in a car all night in 105-degree heat after returning home from a Fourth of July party where they drank alcohol and smoked marijuana. Joel and Jazmine Rondon, both 33, from Lakeland, have been arrested on a charge of aggravated manslaughter of a child in what Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd described as their daughter’s “torturous” hot-car death, which he blamed on “negligence and drug use.” The couple went to a party on Tuesday with their three children, all under the age of 9, and...

MARSHALL COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — A woman was arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) during an employment meeting with the Marshall County Sheriff's Department in Indiana, police say. According to the Sheriff's Department, Nicole Sniadecki, 39, of Plymouth, came in just before 9 a.m. for a scheduled meeting related to an employment inquiry with the department. While speaking with Sniadecki, Captain Jeff Snyder observed slurred speech along with an alcohol smell on her breath. She admitted to operating a vehicle while traveling to the Sheriff's Department and consuming alcohol that morning. Detective Lieutenant Les McFarland obtained a certified...

Social Media post, nothing verified yet. Hillary Clinton is reported rushed by ambulance to a NY hospital from her house near Chattaqua NY.