Alcohol

August 20, 2007 -- COLUMBUS – Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, joined by 29 attorneys general nationwide, today urged the Federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) to stop alcohol manufacturers from making misleading health-related statements when advertising alcoholic beverages that contain caffeine and other stimulants.    » read more »

New Effort Will Help Alcoholic Beverage Control Better Identify Establishments that May Be Serving Intoxicated Patrons

August 17, 2007 -- Trenton – New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram and Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control Director Jerry Fischer today announced a new initiative designed to provide information to ABC on where individuals who have been charged with drunk driving were consuming alcohol immediately prior to their arrest.    » read more »

Intensive Law Enforcement Effort Will Include DUI Checkpoints and Saturation Patrols

August 17, 2007 -- Trenton – New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram and Division of Highway Traffic Safety Director Pam Fischer today announced that law enforcement agencies throughout New Jersey will be conducting additional patrols and sobriety checkpoints from August 17 through September 3, 2007, as part of the national “Over the Limit, Under Arrest” impaired driving initiative.    » read more »

15 August 2007 -- Lindsay Lohan is being sued by a woman who was a passenger in a car the actress allegedly chased while under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

Filing the August 14 lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Tracie Rice said Lohan "put me through one of the most frightening experiences of my life."

The lawsuit alleges assault and negligence on Lohan's part, along with intentional infliction of emotional distress. It seeks unspecified damages and also payment of medical and other expenses related to emotional distress.    » read more »

August 16, 2007 -- Motorists over the limit will find themselves under arrest during statewide drunk driving crackdown.

Not only will law enforcement officers be out in force in 55 counties as part of the Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest. crackdown across Michigan, but in an effort to ensure drunk drivers pay for their crimes, additional officers will also conduct warrant sweeps for individuals wanted for previous alcohol-related charges.    » read more »

05 July 2007 -- Paris Hilton has a message for her fans: don't drink and drive.

Writing in a July 3 entry on her MySpace web page, the 26-year-old celebrity heiress said "Happy 4th of July everyone, and remember to be responsible and have a designated driver!"

Hilton was released from jail last week, after spending 23 days behind bars for violating her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. She has since claimed to be changing her hard-partying ways.    » read more »

July 8, 2007 -- SANTA FE – New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson issued the following statement in response to the Federal Aviation Administration’s investigative report concluding that US Airways was cleared of wrongdoing in the Dana Papst case.    » read more »

July 3, 2007 -- Washington, DC -- U.S. Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) announced today that the state of Delaware will receive a $350,000 grant to bolster their efforts to prevent underage drinking. The Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) Program, the beneficiary of the grant, is dedicated to helping state and local authorities reduce underage alcohol consumption.

Senator Biden praised the EUDL Program’s history in Delaware and its progressive approach to prevent underage drinking.    » read more »

Closes Blood Sample Loophole

July 2, 2007 -- JEFFERSON CITY– Missouri Governor Matt Blunt signed legislation closing a loophole in the law that has allowed some who have been arrested for drunk driving to avoid prosecution on a technicality. House Bill 574 will allow the current process for drawing blood to test blood alcohol levels to continue, but defense attorneys and drunk drivers will no longer be able to have the results thrown out because of the miniscule amount of alcohol used in the swabs to cleanse the skin before drawing the blood.    » read more »

Public service announcements to air statewide urge parents to speak up and discourage underage drinking

IDAHO FALLS, ID—In advance of the Fourth of July holiday, Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden; James “Dyke” Nally, Director, Idaho State Liquor Dispensary; and Chief of Police Kent Livsey, City of Idaho Falls; joined Ralph Blackman, President & CEO of The Century Council today to launch a public awareness campaign to prevent underage drinking.    » read more »

6/27/2007 -- Raleigh - North Carolina Governor Mike Easley announced today that state and local law enforcement officers will be out in force over the Fourth of July holiday as part of the ''Booze It & Lose It: Operation Firecracker'' campaign. Checkpoints and stepped-up patrols will be conducted June 28 to July 8 throughout the state in an effort to remove impaired drivers from the roads.    » read more »

26 June 2007 -- A Delaware brewery known for its specialty beers has created a new one based on a 9,000-year-old recipe.

Of the more than 1300 breweries in the U.S., Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Delaware stands out for its uniqueness.

Owner Sam Calagione says the 26 kinds of beer brewed at his microbrewery cater to different people's tastes, but have one thing in common.    » read more »

June 25, 2007 -- RICHLAND, Wash. – An acoustic technology developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory eliminates the need for laborious and costly sampling of slurries in large containers. Fermentation-based industries, such as beer and pharmaceuticals, could benefit from the technology's non-invasive, continuous and objective "listening" technique in tracking microbial growth through the different process phases.    » read more »

June 25, 2007, Anchorage, Alaska – Alaska Governor Sarah Palin today signed four pieces of legislation which are designed to help make the residents of Alaska safer. The bills allow law enforcement to collect DNA samples from adults arrested for felonies, close a gap in statute dealing with underage drinking, require gang probationers to wear ankle bracelets, and strengthen local option laws for alcohol.    » read more »

22 June 2007 -- Paris Hilton is answering fan mail in the California jail where she is serving time for a probation violation.    » read more »