New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez has announced a slightly weird new initiative, one that seeks to publicly Twitter-shame both repeat drunk driving offenders and the judges who sentence them.
Tonya Couch, the mother of “affluenza teen” Ethan Couch, was brought back to Texas Thursday after going on the lam in Mexico with her kid and getting caught for ordering shitty pizza. Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said Friday he was forced to tell her jail was “not a resort” after she complained about being…
Affluenza afflictee Ethan Couch has been apprehended with his mother, Tonya, by Mexican officials near the resort town of Puerta Vallarta.
Mila Dago is a 24-year-old woman from Miami who, in August of 2013, was going through a rough breakup, according to the Miami Herald. Driving a rented SmartCar in the wee hours of the morning after a night of partying, Dago sent her ex a slew of messages, the last of which were “Driving drunk woo,” “Ill be dead thanks…
On conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham’s show today, senator and presidential candidate Rand Paul blamed the riots in Baltimore on “the breakdown of the family structure” and “a lack of fathers,” among other things. Rand Paul’s own son has been arrested three times on alcohol-related charges, including…
Senator Rand Paul’s son William, 22, was reportedly cited for DUI this past weekend after rear-ending a parked car.
After nearly five years, trial is set to begin next week in a lawsuit filed by the family of Jessica Mejia, a 20-year-old Chicago woman killed in a car crash caused by her ex-boyfriend. Mejia’s family is suing the Cook County Sheriff’s Office for allegedly undressing Jessica’s body after the crash and taking nude…
Sometimes you're baking cupcakes or something and drinking, and you run out of alcohol. So you think to yourself, "I wonder if I could get a drunk with vanilla extract?" The answer, apparently, is yes.
Biebsters, the wait is over, the day of your deliverance is nigh. The Miami Police Department has just released video of Justin Biebmus Christ Himself pissing into a cup after his drunk driving arrest earlier this year. Fortunately (or unfortunately, weirdos), they blurred out his Bienis. But you still get the point.
Freshly minted drunk driver Justin Bieber's mugshot has been released, and it's adorable.
Reese Witherspoon and her husband Jim Toth (co-head of motion picture talent at CAA) were pulled over in a Ford Focus (!?) on Friday at midnight in Atlanta. Toth was weaving between lanes; turns out he was drunk driving. Witherspoon was annoyed, and then angry, and finally started throwing her name around. The…
Holy Crapo*, this is not good. It's not good to drink and drive, and it's really not good when you're a Mormon Senator who's outspoken about your abstinence from alcohol.
The Rev. Salvatore Cordileone, a vigorous opponent of same-sex marriage in California and the Roman Catholic archbishop-elect of the San Francisco area, was pulled over and arrested Saturday on suspicion of driving under the influence at a DUI checkpoint near San Diego State University, in a neighborhood of bars and…
If you thought Mitt Romney's infamous tale of strapping his dog to the car roof and taking it for a terrifying, high speed cruise down the highway, then wait until you hear what a terrible mother and father from Indiana did. On Monday, the couple was seen strapping their four children to the roof hood of their car…
You now have a scientific excuse to call in sick to work: according to a small study, driving with a bad cold is just as dangerous as drunk-driving.
Last spring, serving children alcoholic beverages at chain restaurants was all the rage in child endangerment, but it seems we may have a horrible new trend on our hands. For the second time in a month, a father has been arrested for putting his 9-year-old child in the driver's seat when he was too drunk to drive. …
After police attempted pulling over a Pontiac Sunfire Saturday, its driver, Christine Stroh, decided to resolve the situation by fleeing on icy roads, then hurling herself from the car at 30mph into a tree, leaving two passengers inside. [Jalopnik]
After Taylor Cole Vanderhook, who's charged with DUI, drove into a Delaware canal, Chris Sullivan dove in and broke her windshield, saving her from the sinking car. Her response: "Dude, I'm gonna kill you — you broke my car."
A Connecticut man got ten years in prison for running over and killing a fourteen-year-old boy. Now he's suing the parents because the kid wasn't wearing a helmet.
A 12-year-old girl was arrested in Minnesota after cops caught her drunk driving late Saturday. Apparently, she ended up behind the wheel after a 19-year-old man she met at a party asked her to drive him home.
