Marilyn Stein teaches alcohol highway safety classes that don't always go down smoothly. The information she presents often isn't what people expect. The moment you sip your first spirits, she told her students in the county's Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program last week, your ......

With a cell phone planted firmly in her left ear, the girl looked just like any other teenager you see every day on the street. But this was a bar, and when the bartender asked, "What can I get you?" she paused her conversation only long enough to say, "Six-pack of Miller Genuine......

Where do drunken-driving accidents happen most often in Lancaster County? And why? DUI enforcers say those questions, like the drivers, are loaded. And the answers are many. "Speed is the number one cause of crashes" of all kinds, said Ross Deck, who coordinates DUI sobri......

Alcohol was the theme of the "party" Wednesday at the Willow Valley Resort and Conference Center. But nobody was drinking and driving home afterward. That's exactly what the 250 people who attended the 19th DUI Awareness Conference fight all year to ensure. Dec. 17 was t......

"Do you want a brother or a sister or a pass to the pool?" Tow-headed 7-year-old Kristine Nicole Trimble told her mother that she'd rather have the pass. "Unfortunately," said the mom, Allison Graham, "she only got to use it a few weeks." That was ......

When it comes to retorts from drunk drivers, 33-year-old police Officer Colleen Tatara has heard it all. "I only had one drink." "I didn't hurt anybody." "You're going to ruin my life if you arrest me." "Don't you have anything bette......

The young man in the dark suit was quietly crying. He'd kicked a heroin habit years before with the help of Teen Challenge. But this past spring he'd made a dumb choice. He'd had too much to drink while partying at a restaurant in a bordering county. And then, he admitted in......

One guy got arrested for DUI after a crash around 10:30 in the morning. Then, just over five hours later, he went out, got involved in another accident and got picked up again. Or take the case of the woman who was cited for DUI after her car bogged down in the mud. Police say she grew com......

Ross Deck and his crew are out night fishing for drunk drivers. Lines of Day-Glo orange cones mark their Halloween night checkpoint in the 2200 block of New Danville Pike. Police flashlight beams pierce window glass, probing the darkened interiors of cars for telltale signs of drinking, as......