Entries for May 2013

The National Transportation Safety Board is urging states to adopt a lower "legal limit" of  blood alcohol content for per se impaired driving to 0.05%, following a vote on Tuesday.  Many states, including Kentucky, currently set the "legal limit" at 0.08%.  A driver is presumed to be impaired in Kentucky if his or her blood alcoho...

A Sacramento, California woman will be spending 63 days in jail for slapping a police officer, apparently in hopes of using her "hard time" to kick her smoking habit.  Reports indicate she waited just outside the detention facility for a uniformed officer to appear, and quickly got herself charged with battery of a police officer.  Afte...