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Driving while intoxicated along Interstate 95 at a speed of more than 95 miles per hour is never a good idea. Doing it in a Hyundai with only three tires is a worse idea. According to police in Brevard County, Florida, who were pursuing the car at high speed on Sunday evening, the vehicle had slipped one of its front tires and was riding on a rim. And the rim was nearly in pieces when the car was stopped. Sheriffs’ deputies were alerted about the speeder thanks to a 911 call from another driver, and finally pulled over the car...

OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - Marion County deputies arrested 53-year-old Chuck Legette this Wednesday on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and battery. Deputies say Legette threatened to hurt another man with a chainsaw before battering him. Deputies responded to a home on Southwest 16th Avenue, where they found Legette intoxicated and uncooperative. Legette has been arrested in Ocala on five separate occasions since 2020. His bond is currently posted at $17,500.

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), running against Republican J.D. Vance for Ohio’s open U.S. Senate seat, reportedly has an “ongoing problem” with law enforcement, according to the head of the Buckeye States’ top police union. The Daily Mail reported that the head of Columbus Fraternal Order of Police said the congressman’s “trend of confrontational police encounters” has been an “ongoing problem,” citing the various situations Ryan has gotten into over the years.

Dozens of drunk seagulls have been found on beaches in Southwest England after scavenging alcohol, according to news reports. Citing the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Sky News reports that some seagulls have died and others are “seriously ill.” "The birds appear disoriented and confused and struggle to stand,” explained RSPCA vet David Couper. "We took some video of one of the birds who is staggering around and losing his balance just like a person would if they'd had too much to drink." DevonLive reports that one seagull “reeking of beer” vomited over firefighters sent to...

LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) - A quiet summer night in Laurel County got shaken up by a loud crash, and a swarm of bees. Neighbors say they could hear the screaming all the way up the hills. People on Patton Spur Road don't see many cars come down the dead-end street. But last night, Gary Anderson watched from his porch as a purple Tracker veered on and off the pavement. "Then he passed probably going about 35-40 miles an hour, pretty fast really. And all the sudden, I heard a big boom," said Anderson. He says the driver, Noah...

Sunday’s Super Bowl was dubbed by some as the “pot bowl,” as the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks hail from the two states where fans can soon get marijuana as easily as they can get pizza. As public opinion has shifted in support of legalized marijuana, religious leaders are wrestling over competing interests, including high prison rates and legislating morality. According to a 2013 survey from the Public Religion Research Institute, 58 percent of white mainline Protestants and 54 percent of black Protestants favor legalizing the use of marijuana. On the other side, nearly seven-in-10 (69 percent) white evangelical Protestants...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A college student claims he was injured when a fraternity member in a "drunken stupor" decided "that it would be a good idea to shoot bottle rockets out of his a***," and did so, "but instead of launching, the bottle rocket blew up in the defendant's rectum, and this startled the plaintiff and caused him to jump back," and fall off the fraternity's deck. Louis Helmburg III sued The Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity Inc., of Huntington, West Virginia, and Travis Hughes, a fraternity member, in Cabell County Court. Helmburg claims - in a statement it would be...

Finance Minister Nakagawa submits resignation over strange behavior at G7 press conference Finance Minister Nakagawa resigns over strange behavior at G7 press conference Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa tendered his resignation Tuesday to take responsibility for his abnormal behavior at a news conference following a recent meeting of the Group of Seven finance ministers and central bank governors in Rome in which he appeared drunk. Earlier in the day, Nakagawa, who doubles as state minister for financial services that oversees financial institutions, had told a news conference that he would resign after the fiscal 2009 state budget draft and relevant laws...

Former "American Idol" finalist Jessica Sierra was jailed early Saturday after a drunken confrontation with police and onlookers... The arrest comes less than two weeks after she pleaded no contest to charges of battery and possession of cocaine. Sierra, 22, was charged Saturday with disorderly intoxication, resisting arrest and violating conditions of her parole on earlier felony battery and possession charges. She was being held without bond. Sierra, who was supposed to be completing a drug-rehabilitation program to be televised nationally, was arrested at a bar in Ybor City at 2:10 a.m. Saturday. "As the defendant was taken into custody,...

Drunk women can consent to sex, judges rule By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor Last Updated: 2:05am BST 27/03/2007 A drunken woman can still consent to sex, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday. Three senior judges were giving reasons for clearing a 25-year-old man of raping a student, aged 19, after both had been drinking heavily. Sir Igor Judge: rape ruling Sir Igor Judge, sitting with Lady Justice Hallett and Mrs Justice Gloster, said sex would amount to rape if the complainant had lost her capacity to choose as a result of drink. "However, where the complainant has voluntarily consumed even...

Last night a "GDFD" (get drunk, fall down) was brought into the Emergency Department by aid car. She arrived, as most drunks do, bellowing obscenities and calling the staff vile names. And this young lady was also a spitter. Nice.The law allows us to restrain a patient who poses a threat to himself or to staff, and our MD, a particularly excellent one, wasted no time in decreeing that it be made so. Security is always down there, so we summoned them to help us put the leathers and a spit sock on the young lady. We then shifted her...

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Prosecutors say they suspect Chargers linebacker Steve Foley was on steroids when he was shot three times by an off-duty police officer. "His history of aggressive and even violent contact with law enforcement indicates the possibility of more than mere alcohol involvement," wrote criminal investigator Dan Nordell in an affidavit for a search warrant. "(Steroids) can cause erratic behavior in those that use them. This has been given names like 'roid rage for the uncontrollable outbursts and violence experienced by some users." On Thursday, prosecutors requested a sample of Foley's blood from Sharp Memorial Hospital, where...

"Fresno police are taking enforcement of drunken driving laws to a new level — which officers expect will bring both success and outrage. Saturday night, the traffic unit unveiled a new operation in which plainclothes police officers stake out bars and target drunk patrons. If the heavy drinkers get behind the wheel, officers in unmarked cars follow them and call in marked police cars to pull them over."

A 20-year-old Clarksville man might face charges in connection with a woman's death after his 1992 Honda Accord crashed into the car she was in Saturday night, police said. The impact split the 1999 Honda Civic in two and killed Guadalupe Aguilar, 23, of Tynewood Drive. Her fiance, Andrew Gold, 25, was driving, said Officer Jimmy Dill, of Clarksville Police Department's Fatal Accident Crash Team. Gold was turning left onto Ringgold Road about 9:15 p.m. Saturday, when the Accord, driven by Fernando Ruiz Hernandez of 2871 Fort Campbell Blvd., hit his car, Dill said. The officers said Hernandez ran a...

<p>ADRIAN, Michigan (AP) -- A woman arrested after failing a sobriety test and telling police she drank three glasses of Listerine has pleaded guilty to drunken driving.</p> <p>Carol Ries, 50, was pulled over after she rear-ended another vehicle at a red light on January 9. She passed one breathalyzer test, but failed another that used different equipment.</p>

OCEAN CITY - An attempt by a Chesapeake City, Md. man to introduce an organic gasoline additive to a stranger’s gas tank ended in his arrest for malicious destruction and disorderly intoxication. John Adam Wesolowski, 24, was arrested early Sunday morning after a witness told police he saw him urinate into a car’s gas tank. The witness called police from a cell phone after he said he Wesolowski approach a 2005 Pontiac Gran Prix, unscrew the gas cap, place his penis in the receptacle and then urinate. Ocean City Police Department Pfc. Freddie Howard, Sgt. Howard Whaley and Officer James...

Drunken dialing: Cellphone co. keeps users from making regrettable calls By Brian Caruso Sunday, December 5, 2004 A new cellphone service can help callers who've had a few too many cocktails avoid making humiliating ``drunk dials'' to significant others, exes and even the boss by blocking their numbers ahead of time. Virgin Mobile Australia recently began offering the service, called Dialing Under the Influence. Subscribers who intend to imbibe can dial 333 followed by the phone number to temporarily block the number (until 6 a.m. the next morning) for 25 cents. Not surprisingly, the idea for the service was hatched...

Attacker Disrupts Wedding Celebration Reported by Val Clark Web produced by Jennifer DiDomenico Police say they believe Van Strape's heavy drinking may have led to his violent actions.Video   A Flint area wedding party was horrified when police say a man bit into the groom's thumb, bit off part of another man's finger and knocked a woman out. Police say that after tussling with someone outside Gigi's Catering last weekend, Michael Van Strape went back inside and smeared wedding cake on a 9-year-old boy's face. When the boy's father intervened, the attacker took his first bite. "I saw the...

Public urination may be punished with a $500 fine May 2, 2002BY ROSALIND ROSSI AND FRAN SPIELMAN STAFF REPORTERS Chicago Cubs fans who load up on beer, straggle out of the game and relieve themselves in an alley or someone's front yard would pay dearly--with an automatic $500 fine--under a crackdown proposed Wednesday by the local alderman. The new public urination ordinance proposed by Ald. Bernard Hansen (44th) would be enforced citywide, but would attack one of the main issues standing in the way of Wrigley Field expansion--that 2,000 more ticket holders will bring more public urination to East Lake...