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Drinking age call draws outrage
Sun reportersHealth, safety and transportation advocates denounced yesterday a proposal by more than 100 university administrators to reconsider the legal drinking age of 21 -- contending that any reduction would lead to thousands of additional drunken-driving...Tags: Road Transportation, Middlebury, Transportation Industry, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Drunk Driving
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Binge drinking challenge
A number or respected academic leaders in Maryland believe the legal drinking age should be lowered from 21 to 18, to help confront what they describe as a hidden crisis in binge drinking among students. But they offer no convincing evidence that lowering...Tags: Assault, Road Transportation, Drunk Driving, Sexual Assault, Diseases
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Lehighton man, 35, is killed in Carbon motorcycle crash
A 35-year-old Lehighton man was killed in a Carbon County motorcycle accident Tuesday morning, according to state police at Lehighton.
Ryan C. Leiby was driving a motorcycle east on Summer Mountain Road in East Penn Township when he lost control of the...Tags: Vehicles, Motorcycling
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Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Deputy Killed
The Associated PressState troopers have found and arrested the person who hit and killed a sheriff's deputy with a car early this morning in Lafourche Parish. Authorities say a female deputy was responding to a burglar alarm at a connivence store in Chackbay around 2:30 a....Tags: Road Transportation, Vehicles, Transportation
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Police Blotter - Emmaus
Charged -- Katherine Mesa, 20, of 8041 Heritage Drive, Lower Macungie Township; Friday with drunken driving by a minor; was pulled over near a sobriety checkpoint on Chestnut Street on Aug. 9 for driving a vehicle with a burned-out licensed plate light;...Tags: South Whitehall Township, Road Transportation, Whitehall, Emmaus, Transportation
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Drinking-Age Revolt Gains Converts In State
James F. Jones Jr., who is in his fifth year as president of Trinity College, knows he is incurring the wrath of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and probably more than a few parents, by suggesting that the drinking age be lowered. But, frankly, he doesn'...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Middlebury, East Haven, Drunk Driving, Diseases
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Michigan tailback runs into trouble with law
Michigan RB Kevin Grady tested for a blood-alcohol level of 0.281, more than three times the state's limit, when he was arrested last month, police records obtained by The Grand Rapids Press show. Grady pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated July 30...Tags: Ralph Friedgen, Maryland Terrapins, Punishment, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Mickey Mouse
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3-sport Olympian conquers demons
IN THE WAKE OF THE NEWSBEIJING—Terrorized by a stalker, depressed, seeing a psychologist, dreading medication, selling her house to avoid bankruptcy, seeing the guy placed under house arrest, having him turn up anyhow, fearing murder or rape, hearing he was arrested...Tags: Pentathlon Swimming, 5K Run, Triathlon, FedEx Corporation, University of Michigan
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Sheila Taormina fights through terrorizing experience
Chicago TribuneBEIJING -- Terrorized by a stalker, depressed, seeing a psychologist, dreading medication, selling her house to avoid bankruptcy, seeing the guy placed under house arrest, having him turn up anyhow, fearing murder or rape, hearing he was arrested again,...Tags: Pentathlon Swimming, 5K Run, Fencing, Triathlon, FedEx Corporation
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Driver gets 1-3 years for fatal car crash
Of The Morning CallAn Allentown man was sentenced to one to three years in state prison Tuesday for causing a crash that killed an 83-year-old man and seriously injured a woman. Marvin Rodriguez, 20, of Vine Street looked down and showed no emotion as three of his victim's...Tags: Punishment, Lehigh County, Drunk Driving, Allentown, Vehicles
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Oak Lawn fire chief exits amid labor woes
Chicago Tribune reporterSaying he was fed up over political wrangling with the village's firefighters union, Oak Lawn Fire Chief Ed Folliard retired Tuesday after 20 years with the department. "My time is done," said Folliard, 56, who said he was not forced out. "I poured my...Tags: Fires, Contracts, Unions, Oak Lawn
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From the archives: Motorcycle safety tips
Consumer ReportsScanning through past Consumer Reports articles on motorcycles, scooters, and mopeds, advice from the June 1981 issue resonated with me today. The basic wisdom from decades past still applies today. I set this research aside to address later, along with...
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