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Driver Gets DWI After 11-Mile Ride Sans Tire

Oh, and he's been unlicensed since 1977. And couldn't keep right

(Newser) - So your blood-alcohol content is 3.5 times the limit and you haven't had a driver's license in 33 years—let's go for a drive! And so a tire falls off—let's keep going 11 miles without it! Western New Yorker Duane Bush is charged with doing just that, along...

RFK Jr. Divorcing DWI-Charged Wife

Alleged drunk driving came three days after filing

(Newser) - Mary Kennedy’s May 15 DWI arrest didn’t come out of nowhere: Turns out her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had filed for divorce on May 12. Rumors of marriage trouble came bubbling to the surface soon after the DWI; police had been called to the couple’s New...

Marriage Drama for RFK Jr
 Marriage Drama for RFK Jr 
May 28, 2010 11:20 AM CDT

Marriage Drama for RFK Jr

Wife's DWI a sign of how bad it is, friends say

(Newser) - In the wake of Mary Kennedy’s DWI arrest , rumors of trouble in her marriage to Bobby Kennedy Jr. are bubbling to the surface. “It's no big surprise that she's drinking. She has problems, and in the past couple of years—certainly the last year—it’s gotten worse,...

RFK Jr's Wife Charged With DWI
 RFK Jr's Wife Charged With DWI 
May 19, 2010 7:27 AM CDT

RFK Jr's Wife Charged With DWI

Mary Kennedy found drunk driving at a school

(Newser) - Another Kennedy is making alcohol-related headlines: This time it’s Mary Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was arrested for drunk driving Saturday. Kennedy, 50, jumped a curb outside a New York school where, she told police, she was picking up “some people” from a carnival. She...

Recession Cuts Into Prison Sentences

States opt for cheaper routes to justice

(Newser) - With the recession squeezing their finances, many states are opting to cut the high costs surrounding incarceration—meaning fewer criminals are heading to jail and prison, and more are getting out earlier, the Washington Post reports. Some states are sending drug offenders and drunk drivers to special courts that allow...

Drunk Golf-Cart Driver Charged in Accident

Minn. man faces vehicular-homicide rap after friend's fatal fall

(Newser) - A 47-year-old Minnesota man is facing vehicular-homicide charges after a friend fell from the golf cart he was driving while intoxicated Friday and died. The 41-year-old passenger fell backward from the rear of the moving cart after a fireworks display at a campground. He struck his head on a paved...

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