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"It's fairly common for people who have been revoked or have a DWI (on their record)," he said. "If they have to run to the store, they'll hop on a mower thinking that's all right." Yeehah! for rednecks.

A Long Island mother was very drunk, with an extra-large bottle of vodka in her car, and was smoking marijuana before she caused a wrong-way crash on a New York highway that killed her, her young daughter and six others, police said Tuesday.

Two weeks after a noted black scholar accused a white police sergeant of racial profiling for arresting him at his home near Harvard University, the men hoisted mugs of beer Thursday evening at the White House with President Obama and Vice President Biden.

Starbucks Corp. said Thursday it is wiping its name from one of its Seattle-area stores and adding alcohol to the menu.

Former 'Baywatch' star reportedly rushed to the hospital Saturday after teen daughter allegedly finds him unconscious from alcohol poisoning

French lawmakers have approved an amendment that would raise the minimum age for buying alcohol in a country long known for its relaxed attitude toward drinking.

Walgreen Co. executives are considering selling booze at its drugstores after phasing out beer and wine at all but a few hundred stores in the 1990s.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans slowed their consumption of hard liquor last year, a trade group said on Friday, proving that spirits are not immune to a recession.

A Seattle man who failed to stop after a hit-and-run accident as he was driving home on Interstate 5 has died, Lane County authorities said.