Suspected DUI driver arrested after police say they were 3 times over BAC legal limit A suspected DUI driver from Lathrop was arrested Thursday night after their blood-alcohol content was allegedly more than three times the legal limit. The Lathrop Police Department said an officer was ... 04/26/2024 - 7:36 am | View Link
Some Austin Police officers are now drawing blood in DWI cases The Austin Police Department is piloting a program where some police officers are drawing blood from people suspected of driving under the influence instead of emergency medical technicians or nurses. 04/18/2024 - 11:58 am | View Link
Austin police officers being trained to draw blood in certain DWI cases APD says they have more than 3,000 DWI-related arrests a year and that one-third of deadly crashes are caused by impaired driving. Currently, the four qualified officers work Fridays to draw blood, ... 04/16/2024 - 1:36 pm | View Link
Austin police begin new program of officers drawing blood in some DWI cases While the pilot program's been a success from the Austin Police Department's perspective, others worry it could lead to an "eroding of public trust." ... 04/15/2024 - 12:01 am | View Link
Texas officials ask appeals court to allow state immigration crackdown U.S. soldiers and law enforcement officers watch over a group of migrants who had crossed the Rio Grande into the United States on Monday in Eagle Pass, Tex. (John Moore/Getty Images) Texas ... 03/20/2024 - 12:00 pm | View Link
“This week, one presidential candidate has called the other a loser, made fun of him for selling Bibles, and even poked fun at his hair,” the New York Times reports.
“That kind of taunting is generally more within the purview of former President Donald J. Trump, whose insults are so voluminous and so often absurd that they have been cataloged by the hundreds.
Following the indictment of Donald Trump’s allies over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Arizona, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer told Margaret Hoover that those efforts came “quite close” to succeeding.
Said Richer: “I think we put ourselves in a pretty perilous situation.”
“The Biden administration is reversing course on its plan to ban menthol cigarettes, after the White House weighed the potential public-health benefits of banning minty smokes against the political risk of angering Black voters in an election year,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Donald Trump suggested someone is purposely keeping him a “freezing” courtroom for his hush money criminal trial.
Said Trump: “We have another day in court, in a freezing courthouse. It’s very cold in there, on purpose I believe.”
“All charges have been declined against the 57 people arrested in connection to the Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas,” the Austin American-Statesman reports.