DUI

A suspected drunken driver crashed into an Illinois State Trooper’s car Thursday on the Dan Ryan Expressway, sending himself and the trooper to hospitals with minor injuries.

Five patients were taken to a trauma center this afternoon — at least four of them initially listed in serious to critical condition — after an SUV with an allegedly drunk driver behind the wheel crashed into a storefront on Hollywood Boulevard, authorities said.

A Bellwood man was allegedly driving under the influence when he crashed into a car in Rolling Meadows and killed all four occupants, including a 6-year-old boy.

Former All-Star baseball player Johnny Damon was arrested early Friday morning in Florida on suspicion of drunken driving and resisting arrest, court records show. Damon’s wife, Michelle Mangan-Damon, was also arrested by Windermere police, who’d pulled the couple over after noticing their SUV was weaving on the road about 1:23 a.m., officers said. Mangan-Damon was charged with hitting an...

A judge Thursday ordered former 1st Ward Ald. Proco “Joe” Moreno to Cook County Jail for violating his bail in a pending felony case. Judge William Hooks revoked Moreno’s bond after prosecutors said the ex-alderman violated condition of his bond in an ongoing fraud case by picking up misdemeanor DUI charges last month, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting. During a hearing,...

An off-duty Nevada state trooper was dressed as a “Star Wars” stormtrooper when she stopped a suspected drunken driver who had entered a Las Vegas freeway driving in the wrong direction.

Sheila Lockwood says she never intended to be an activist. But the suburban Chicago mother was thrust into that role when her son Austin was killed in a drunk driving accident in Wisconsin two years ago. “Your life is turned upside down after a crash like this,” she said. “And the person who murdered your loved one just goes on…

A man is facing DUI and reckless homicide charges after a fatal wrong-way crash Saturday in west suburban Naperville. Frank P. Qualtier Jr., 54, was driving a silver Dodge Ram pickup west on Royce Road about 7:30 p.m. when it crossed into the eastbound lanes and hit a black Ford Fiesta head-on near Lisson Road, according to a statement from…

A Joliet cop charged with misdemeanor driving under the influence in a crash that killed a Berwyn police officer is free to legally drive again after a judge lifted a suspension of her license.

The email was enough to stop any seasoned reporter in his tracks. “My name is Sheila Lockwood,” it began. “On June 10, 2018, I was sentenced to life without my oldest son, Austin Lee Lockwood.” Austin Lockwood was just 23 years old when he volunteered to help a friend of a friend spruce up his cabin in upstate Wisconsin. That…

The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office charged Juan C. Aguiar, 37, of Waukegan with two counts of aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol, aggravated driving under the influence of drugs (cocaine) and aggravated driving under the combined influence of alcohol and drugs. On May 12, 2019, around 2:30 a.m., Lake County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to the area of…

Video shows a Colorado police officer in uniform and on duty, passed out in his car with a blood alcohol level of .45, authorities say. He was never charged with a crime. KUSA’s Noel Brennan reports.

Impeachment debate surrounding the next amendment to be introduced quickly divulged into a tit-for-tat involving allegations of cocaine usage and driving under the influence charges....

It began with Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., introducing an amendment to strike former Vice President Joe Biden from the articles of impeachment as the subject of an investigation Trump wanted Ukraine to launch and replace him...

An Elk Grove Village man on parole is headed back to prison for his sixth DUI offense. Nazim Useni was sentenced to 14 years in prison Monday by Judge John Kinsella, according to a statement from the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office. A jury convicted Useni, 58, in September of felony aggravated DUI. The charge stemmed from a Jan. 28…

A man is facing deportation following an arrest by Cicero police back in May after he was allegedly found sleeping inside his car alongside opened bottles of alcohol.

A man is facing deportation following an arrest by Cicero police back in May after he was allegedly found sleeping inside his car alongside opened bottles of alcohol.

Michael Madsen has pleaded no contest to misdemeanor drunken driving after crashing his SUV into a pole in Malibu in March.

A South Carolina woman who police say was driving drunk will not be cited with a DUI because her vehicle of choice was a toy truck. News outlets quote police as saying that instead they charged 25-year-old Megan Holman with public intoxication. They say they spotted her cruising down the road in a Power Wheels electric toy truck after a...

Actor Vince Vaughn has been convicted of reckless driving after his arrest for failing a drunken driving test last year. An attorney for the 49-year-old “Wedding Crashers” star entered a no contest plea to the misdemeanor count Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court. Vaughn was arrested June 10 at a sobriety checkpoint in the upscale community of Manhattan Beach.