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May 19, 2010 7:27 AM CDT

RFK Jr's Wife Charged With DWI

Mary Kennedy found drunk driving at a school

(Newser) - Another Kennedy is making alcohol-related headlines: This time it’s Mary Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was arrested for drunk driving Saturday. Kennedy, 50, jumped a curb outside a New York school where, she told police, she was picking up “some people” from a carnival. She...

Woman Banned From Bars Arrested for Drinking

Woman Banned From Every UK Bar Arrested for Drinking

May 18, 2010 6:55 AM CDT

Woman Banned From Every UK Bar Arrested for Drinking

Laura Hall also swore at a cop

(Newser) - Note to Laura Hall: Once you’ve been banned from every bar in the United Kingdom, it’s probably not a good idea to drunkenly yell at a police officer that you “want to go to the f****** offie to buy some beer!” But that is what Hall...

Booze Makes You Age Faster

DRAT

Apr 22, 2010 12:26 PM CDT

Booze Makes You Age Faster

Alcohol damages cells that lead to aging, cancer

(Newser) - Geezerdom could be just a few pints away, according to a new study from Italy. Alcohol damages cells that have been linked to both premature aging and cancer, the research shows. “Heavy alcohol users tend to look haggard” for a reason, the lead researcher tells the Daily Telegraph . “...

Woman Banned
From Every UK Bar

Apr 16, 2010 2:53 PM CDT

Woman Banned From Every UK Bar

Laura Wilson, 20, gets a 2-year timeout from booze

(Newser) - A 20-year-old woman is the first person ever banned from buying or drinking alcohol anywhere in England or Wales. The police issued Laura Hall a Drinking Banning Order, which prohibits her from entering bars, pubs, clubs, or other establishments that sell alcohol. If she does, she risks a $3,800...

Carlsberg Tension Still Brews Over on-the-Job Boozing

Apr 10, 2010 8:20 AM CDT

Carlsberg Tension Still Brews Over on-the-Job Boozing

Union digging in over 'need to keep our beer'

(Newser) - It's perhaps an enviable problem to have, but workers and management at Copenhagen's Carlsberg brewery are still facing off over the right to crack a cold one on the clock. Workers went on strike this week after Carlsberg limited the century-old privilege to a mere three pints during lunch hour....

Rip Torn Thought
Bank Was Home: Lawyer

took off hat, boots

Feb 2, 2010 9:04 AM CST

Rip Torn Thought Bank Was Home: Lawyer

Actor was so drunk he took off hat, boots in lobby

(Newser) - When Rip Torn broke into a bank Friday night, he was so drunk he thought he was in his own home and had even taken off his hat and boots and left them by the door, his lawyer said yesterday. "Obviously, he wasn't there intending to commit a crime,...

Plane Diverts to Denver After Passenger Tries to Open Door

Jan 24, 2010 8:26 AM CST

Plane Diverts to Denver After Passenger Tries to Open Door

Cops take him into custody, alcohol involved

(Newser) - A United Airlines jetliner carrying more than 100 people from Washington, DC, to Las Vegas was diverted to Denver yesterday after a passenger tried to open an exterior door on the plane while it was in flight, officials said. Denver police took the passenger into custody and were interviewing him...