Everyone has that friend who instigates a wild night out, encourages you to have one drink too many, but gets you home in one piece. Now there's a 'smart beer mug' that does a similar thing. Fitted with sensors, the ePint lights up when it is empty, keeps track of the number of drinks its user ...

A Georgia man was accused of DUI and public drunkenness while operating a motorized wheelchair inside a grocery store Friday. Multiple media outlets are reporting that 48-year-old Danny W. Mitchell was cited at a Kroger supermarket in Conyers. According to an incident report, police who were ca...

Police and prosecutors in at least four metro counties say a big hospital system policy could hamper their efforts to put drunk drivers behind bars. They say WellStar Health System recently put up a big road block between them and a growing number of DUI cases in Cobb, Paulding, Cherokee and Dou...

In an effort to curb the number of drunken-driving cases, law enforcement officials are going high-tech with roadside lasers that can detect the amount of alcohol exhaled by someone in a moving vehicle. It should be noted that this technology is still in its early stages, but the potential i...

Two new studies indicate that driving with a hangover could be just as dangerous as driving drunk, Medical Daily reported. In one study, researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and the University of the West of England in the U.K. put study participants through a series of drivi...

A Colorado Springs man headed to Utah on horseback was arrested in Boulder Monday for being intoxicated and allegedly abusing the animal. Patrick Neal Schumacher, 45, was arrested on four charges, including animal cruelty, after he reportedly hit his horse numerous times near Broadway an...

A court decision discrediting the reliability of machines used by hundreds of Ohio law-enforcement agencies to test drunken drivers could be the “death blow” for the controversial devices, defense attorneys say. But a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Health, the state agency that oversees ...