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From WLWT
COVINGTON, Ky. (July 31, 2011)  – A Covington city  commissioner was arrested and booked into the Kenton County Detention Center  early Saturday morning.
Covington police said City Commissioner Steven L. Frank was observed by  officers at about 2:31 a.m. in Covington, at Rivercenter Boulevard and Madison  Avenue.  According to police, Frank ran two stop signs. ….MORE

Police said they suspected alcohol to be involved. After an  investigation, it was determined that Frank was driving under the influence.

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From HeraldNet.com
EVERETT, Washington (July 30, 2011)– A woman out on bail in connection with the death of a pedestrian in Marysville has been arrested again on suspicion of drunken driving.
Police say Theresa Ecklund, 43, passed out in the back seat of a patrol car after she was arrested in June during a countywide crackdown on intoxicated drivers.
The arresting officer noted that Ecklund was “blasted,” according to court documents filed Wednesday. At the time, Ecklund was out on bail for a Dec. 10 fatal crash that took the life of David Johnson. ….MORE

From NOLA.com
Slidell Memorial Hospital’s chief executive officer has lost his job after a drunken driving arrest earlier this month, his second in six years.

View full sizeScott Threlkeld, The Times-Picayune
Slidell Memorial CEO Robert L. ‘Bob’ Hawley Jr., listens to a speaker before the hospital board headed to executive session Thursday, July 28, 2011, at the Slidell Memorial Hospital Regional Cancer Center. The board voted to fire Hawley, who was recently arrested for the second time in six years for driving while intoxicated.

The hospital’s board of nine commissioners unanimously voted to fire him Thursday evening during a public meeting at the regional cancer center on Robert Road.   …..MORE

From LEX18.com
Here’s a story that pegs the hypocrisy meter.
Indiana state troopers arrested a Seymour, Ind. police officer on DUI charges after he crashed a pickup pulling a D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) trailer Wednesday night.
Police say John Newcomb, 38, was driving the pickup pulling the trailer along Main Street in Salem around 10:30 p.m. when he sideswiped a legally parked vehicle along the road and crashed into a tree.
Investigators say it was quickly apparent alcohol was likely a factor.
The crash woke Tina Robbins up

From Orlando Sentinel
An Orange County firefighter with an extensive disciplinary record has been fired after a DUI arrest, according to documents from Orange County Fire Rescue.
Matthew Hotchkiss, 25, of Winter Park, was arrested by the Daytona Beach Shores Department of Public Safety on July 10. His termination was effective Friday, according to a July 21 termination letter from the fire department.
Hotchkiss reportedly drove into a parking lot behind the public safety department through an entrance marked “do not enter.” When a public safety officer stopped Hotchkiss, the officer noticed that the firefighter-paramedic smelled strongly of alcohol, according to an arrest report….MORE

From MiniCassia.com
BURLEY • A Heyburn man on probation for causing a 2005 alcohol-involved crash that killed a Rupert teen has pleaded guilty to a separate driving under the influence charge.
Robert Ray Brackenbury, 27, will be sentenced for a March 2010 DUI charge at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 13, in Cassia County 5th District Court. His guilty plea will also represent a violation of his probation for a vehicular manslaughter charge related to the death of 14-year-old Aimee Marie Souza of Rupert.
According to court documents, Brackenbury entered the guilty plea to DUI as part of a July 19 plea agreement……MORE

From 10News.com
CARLSBAD, Calif. (July 28, 2011)– A young woman was jailed Thursday on suspicion of manslaughter, drunken driving and hit-and-run in the death of a 64-year-old cyclist in Carlsbad.
Arthur John Jacobs of Vista was fatally struck while riding his bike around 9:45 p.m. Wednesday, near the intersection of El Camino Real and Cassia Street, according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office…..MORE

From Seattle Times
After his SUV slammed into another man’s car in Kirkland on Sunday afternoon, the driver got out and “pounded on his chest like a gorilla,” according to a witness to the fatal crash.
Steven Lacey, the driver of the car, was killed instantly, according to Patricia Kaiser, of Kirkland, who witnessed the crash near Interstate 405. The driver of the SUV, identified by the State Patrol as Patrick Rexroat, was charged Wednesday with vehicular homicide while under the influence of alcohol and reckless driving.
If convicted, he faces about 3 ½ years in prison…..MORE

From LA Times
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy collided with another car while driving drunk, then fled the scene, according to prosecutors.
Deputy Michael Anthony Grundy, 45, was charged this week with allegedly driving with a blood alcohol level almost twice the legal limit, while simultaneously under the influence of another drug in a January incident. ….MORE

From St. Tammany News
Slidell Memorial Hospital Chief Executive Officer Robert Hawley Jr., 64, was arrested earlier this month for his second driving while intoxicated.
Hawley, who was crossing the bridge at approximately 4:15 a.m. on July 13 when he was stopped, admitted to having a few beers before getting behind the wheel that morning, Causeway General Manager Carlton Dufrechou said…..MORE