MADD peddling margaritas — sans alcohol, of course

Mothers Against Drunk Driving wants you to have a beer — alcohol-free, natch.

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MADD attacks 'Grand Theft Auto IV'

Mothers Against Drunk Driving wants a stricter rating on "Grand Theft Auto IV."

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MADD Severs Ties With Miss Teen USA

Mothers Against Drunk Driving said Wednesday it was severing ties with Miss Teen USA Katie Blair because it was "disappointed" by news reports that she had partied with Miss USA Tara Conner.

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OTTAWA -The federal Justice Department is considering a new law to randomly force drivers to take roadside breath tests, regardless of whether police suspect they have been drinking, Canwest News Service has learned.

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(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Today, the American Beverage Institute (ABI) criticized Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) for publicly lamenting that President Obama chose to hold a "Beer Summit" in an effort to cool tensions between the gentlemen involved in the recent police inciden …

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A New Jersey brewery is using the state's congested and often-derided turnpike to promote its beer, an idea that concerns the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and a group that opposes drinking and driving.

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This one is a heart-wrencher. Added was the name of a little boy who captured the heart of the Kentuckiana area when he went missing.

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Rep. Vito Fossella of New York was convicted in a Virginia court on Friday on charges of drunken driving. A second hearing will be held to determine whether Fossella's blood-alcohol content at the time of his arrest was above 0.15, which would require a five-day jail term.

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According to MADD, a lower drinking age will result in more drinking among 18-to-20-year-olds, which will result in more drunk driving, which will result in more dead teenagers. Therefore, if you favor a lower drinking age, you favor dead teenagers.

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There's been a lot of press recently on the statement of some University Presidents that the drinking age should be lowered to 18 years of age. Of course MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) is against the proposal as are some other University Presidents.

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Two Ohio college presidents are among dozens nationwide who are asking lawmakers to consider whether the legal drinking age should be lowered from 21.

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The officer said that when he came to the driver's window, he found Green's 1-year-old son at the wheel, sitting in Green's lap. Green, 29, registered a 0.11 percent blood-alcohol level. Two other children, ages 8 and 5, were also in the car....

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Their hearts may be in the right place but their actions are becoming as dangerous as those they are trying to stop

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You Got DUI?

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" Mothers Against Drunk Driving wants a stricter rating on "Grand Theft Auto IV." This game allows the player to drive drunk, and has a mature rating.

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The businessman was meeting with clients for lunch at Mimi's Café when he noticed the woman. Sitting a few tables over with her 4-year-old boy, she seemed groggy — yet she was drinking a mimosa.

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The proof is in the police report: Wilcutt's blood alcohol content was only 0.02, the equivalent of one drink. She wasn't even close to the legal limit.

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In the phone call, played during the sentencing hearing, Melissa Arrington, 27, listened, as a friend know only as "Little Joe" makes a tasteless attempt to cheer her up.

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Her two four-hour days at the morgue are part of a court-ordered program to show drivers the real-life consequences of drinking and driving. She must also spend two days working in a hospital emergency room.

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It was early last month when Jane Hambleton of Fort Dodge found the bottle under the front seat of her 19-year-old son's pride and joy. Her next move was a call to The Des Moines Register's classified advertising department:

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For the past decade we have seen increasingly severe punishment for misdemeanor drunk driving offenses, often exceeding those imposed for serious felonies.

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In the middle of the night, our reader awoke on the couch with a craving for that Beast of the Fast Food World: The Baconator.

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Rethinking Drinking: The Changing Nature of Youth, and Our Foolish Alcohol Policy

There's a notion in American society that all premature death and tragedy is ultimately preventable, and that it is a desirable to pursue any public policy to those ends.

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An Estonian man who was caught driving a car even though he is blind has been at it again, police said on Monday, and this time he faces jail. Police first arrested the man, 20, a week ago. "He was drunk...."

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A Virginia woman who bought beer and wine for her son's 16th birthday party is headed to prison for 27 months. The trial judge originally sentenced the woman to 8-10 years, a sentence supported by the local chapter of MADD.

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Daniel Brock won high praise for jailing impaired motorists. Mothers Against Drunk Driving honored him. So did his bosses. But one of Hillsborough County's most aggressive DUI deputies may have wrongly sent dozens of people to jail, the Sheriff's Office acknowledged Thursday.

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At the urging of victims' rights groups, state legislatures have enacted laws that impose new consequences for those convicted of drunk driving, from increased jail time to special markers on license plates or publication of convictions on the Web.

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The Canadian Safety Council has problems with legislation before Parliament designed to crack down on drug-impaired drivers. "I think it is driven by hype. I think it is driven by politics," the council's Emile Therrien told CTV News on Monday.

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