Drunk Driving

The National Transportation Safety Board--a federal agency that investigates transportation accidents--has begun to urge states to drop their legal drinking limit from .08 percent to .05 percent. The legal limit, as our readers may know, is the limit that determines...

A decision to throw out an important piece of evidence in a Baton Rouge DWI trial could have a significant effect on future cases. The case involves a drunk-driving charge stemming from a sobriety checkpoint set up back in December 2010. According to the judge that...

Sources didn't provide much detail about the way in which officers determined Hart's level of intoxication. Sobriety tests are often used alongside preliminary breath testing devices to gather evidence of intoxication. The whole goal of gathering this evidence is to...

Following a fatal car wreck on Sunday Morning, a Denham Springs woman was taken into police custody and cited with vehicular homicide, careless operation of a vehicle, and driving under the influence. According to witnesses of the incident, the 24-year-old woman was...

Our readers may not be aware of it, but police are bound by very specific procedures when it comes to sobriety checkpoints. Thirty people are currently fighting charges of DUI stemming from a DUI checkpoint after a LSU/Alabama football game last November. According to...

A 59-year-old man was reportedly arrested on Monday and accused of driving under the influence, making for his third DUI arrest in less than a year-s time and his second in the last two weeks. In addition to the DUI charge, he was also charged with operating a vehicle...

On Thursday, country singing legend Randy Travis pleaded guilty to a driving while intoxicated charge connected to an incident last summer when Travis was found naked after crashing his car in Sherman. In exchange for his guilty plea, Travis received two years of...

A driver accused of killing a cyclist and critically injured another cyclist in a January 2012 accident on Perkins Road in Baton Rouge has been charged with vehicular homicide, first-degree vehicular negligent injuring and second-offense DUI. The driver has reportedly...

The Supreme Court seemed skeptical on Wednesday during oral arguments involving the issue of whether states should permit police officers to administer warrantless blood draws on DUI suspects. Right now, 50 states permit officers to skip the general warrant...

A DUI conviction carries serious penalties, and no one in Louisiana wants to go to jail, pay fines or lose driving privileges. But with the holidays come the increased risk of DUI charges, and Baton Rouge residents can save themselves a lot of trouble by taking some...