As the temperatures start to rise, most residents are thinking ahead to their summer vacation and all the activities that come with the summer heat. Pool parties, barbecue and holiday celebrations are just some of the highlights we look forward to every summer....
Can you get a DUI on a snowmobile?
While many people dread the snow, others cannot wait to get outside and begin their long-awaited winter activities. You may be one of many who are ready to get away from the city and head out on their sleds for some snowmobiling fun. Amidst all of the fun of going...
Alcohol is being offered everywhere from yoga classes to funerals
It sometimes seems as though alcohol is available just about everywhere. Many hair salons offer clients a glass of wine. Yoga and painting classes sometimes make alcohol available. Book club meetings and even children's play dates are often an excuse for people to...
Do state DUI laws impact the number of impaired driving deaths?
A new report on how states rank in the number of deaths caused by drunk and other impaired driving puts Maryland in the bottom half at No. 33. Our readers who work or otherwise travel regularly around the D.C. metropolitan area might be interested to know that...
SoberRide promotion aims to decrease drunk driving this season
If your holiday celebrations take you near or into the Washington, D.C., area any time through New Year's Eve and you have the Lyft app on your phone, you can save some money and get a safe ride home. That's thanks to a partnership between Lyft and the Washington...
State sees more than 2 dozen DUI crashes in 1 weekend
The holiday party season is in full swing. That's likely the reason for at least a few of the large number of crashes attributed to impaired driving and an even greater number of DUI arrests by state troopers two weekends before Christmas.According to the Maryland...
What is an SR-22 and why do you need one?
One of the repercussions of a DUI conviction that stays with you long after you've paid your fines, gotten your license back, completed your alcohol education classes and maybe even spent a little time behind bars is the drastic jump in your auto insurance premiums....
State leaders continue to push for harsher DUI penalties
Even though Maryland has always had strict penalties for those convicted of DUI-related offenses, the governor and state lawmakers have taken steps in recent years to reduce the state's continued high rate of crashes -- many of them fatal -- that involved a drunk...
Driver in fatal DUI involving Maryland man gets 2 decades in jail
A 25-year-old South Carolina man was sentenced to two decades behind bars earlier this month for a fatal drunk driving crash that killed a Maryland college student a year ago. It's one of the harshest sentences handed down for a fatal DUI in that state in recent...
Ex-Baltimore bishop involved in fatal DUI denied early release
Many people in the Baltimore area are familiar with the case of the Episcopal bishop who struck and killed a man who was riding a bicycle in 2014 while she was under the influence. She then left the scene -- returning a half an hour later after others had called 911...