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.

An actor and spokesman for the discount hotel website Trivago.com (tree-VAH’-goh) has been arrested in Texas on a misdemeanor driving while intoxicated charge. Court records show 52-year-old Timothy Williams was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Houston and freed on $100 bond. Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said Friday that Williams was stopped in traffic and passed out with his foot on...

Actor Vince Vaughn was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Manhattan Beach, police said Sunday.

A Chicago man with no driver’s license was charged Thursday after his vehicle got stuck on a railroad crossing while he was driving drunk and drinking a beer in west suburban Riverside.

Police say former NBA star Dennis Rodman has been arrested on suspicion of DUI in Southern California.

Former Los Angeles Laker and ex-New York Knicks head coach Derek Fisher was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after his vehicle overturned Sunday on the Ventura (101) Freeway. His lone passenger, former “Basketball Wives” reality star Gloria Govan, escaped injury. The crash was a little after 3 a.m. on the westbound freeway, approaching the San Diego (405) Freeway interchange....

A Milwaukee mother is facing multiple charges after police stopped her while suspected of driving under the influence with her 8-year-old son on her lap. Police stopped the woman after they saw her car entering an on-ramp with the child steering the vehicle.

The most decorated Olympian of all time, who’s also set to compete in Rio this August, revealed he didn’t want “anything to do” with competitive swimming leading into the London Olympics in 2012. In an exclusive interview with “Today’s” Matt Lauer, Michale Phelps said he “had a lot of struggle getting through the four years” after making Olympic history in...

A woman died and two others, including a 2-year-old child, were injured in a single-vehicle crash on the Dan Ryan early Friday morning.

A man arrested for DUI told deputies his dog was the one driving