An Orange County judge ruled on Wednesday that the attorney for the man accused of driving under the influence in an accident that took the life of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart cannot introduce evidence the driver of Adenhart's car was drinking.

The new Missouri DWI laws are in effect as of August 28, 2010. House Bill 1695, signed by Governor Jay Nixon in June of this year, changed several provision of the laws. Many of the changes will have a direct impact on repeat offenders or those registering a high blood alcohol content (BAC) level by blood or breath tests. The new law includes many changes.

It creates a centralized reporting database to track all driving while impaired offenses, from arrest to disposition. It prevents municipal and city courts from hearing an intoxication related case if the offender has 2 or more intoxicated related offenses or 2 or more alcohol related offenses. It allows circuit courts to establish DWI courts to facilitate treatment for repeat offenders and drivers with high blood alcohol levels. These courts may work in conjunction with established drug courts to establish DWI treatment programs.

A wrong-way driver on the 405 Freeway in North Hills, CA, ended with charges of drunken driving and possession of a controlled substance Saturday morning.

22-year-old Luis Castro, a Sylmar resident, was allegedly driving North in the southbound lane of the 405 near Nordhoff Street, in the Northridge/Panorama City area of the San Bernardino Valley, North of Los Angeles.

The saga surrounding Roy Ashburn's March 4 arrest for drunk driving continues to unfold, as the previously outspoken anti-gay activist uses the event to spur a gay rights campaign.

Ashburn was pulled over after leaving a gay bar in Sacramento, and he had a male companion with him at the time of his arrest. The Senator, a divorced father of 4, of a conservative district, Ashburn has decided to take a new approach to the issue.

Following a plea of no contest to a 2009 DUI vehicular manslaughter, Paul Kyu Kim, 21, was sentenced to four years in prison.

The accident occurred on July 2, 2009 when Kim was traveling home from RA Sushi in Torrance. Kim admitted he had been drinking with friends at the restaurant. He was 20 at the time of the accident, and he also admitted to purchasing beverages with the use of a fake ID. He was allegedly traveling up to 110 mph in his vehicle on the 710 Freeway when he struck a car carrying Drean Hanley, 58, a resident of Silver Lake, California.

One man was charged with DUI following a crash early Sunday morning that injured 5 individuals.

The accident occurred just after midnight when Dickie Wayne Puckett, 57, was traveling on Antelope Boulevard in Red Bluff, Tehama County, California. Officers discovered Puckett had been driving west down Antelope when he clipped the back of a car parked on the shoulder of the road. The car, smaller than Puckett's pick up truck, was sent spinning into the yard of a local residence.

Clackamas County Circuit Judge Robert D. Herndon sentenced Katie Warren, 22, to five years in prison and suspended her driver’s license for life, in February of this year.

Ms. Warren, who is from Milwaukee, was on a rafting trip down the Clackamas River with friends. She had been drinking all day and became separated from them. She then asked Chester Raimer, 48, for help finding her friends. After her friends were found Ms. Warren offered to drive them all, including Mr. Raimer, back to Milo McIver State Park. She hit a tree, while speeding and driving erratically, in the park. Mr. Raimer was killed and Ms. Warrens' three friends were all injured.

Her blood alcohol level, 0.2, was twice the legal limit.

"She couldn't be put behind bars long enough to satisfy me," said Bobbi Diedrich, the mother of Raimer's six-year-old son. "She does not deserve any leniency whatsoever." "I don't hate you," said June Raimer, Chester Raimer's mother. "I don't feel sorry for you either," Raimer said. "I forgive you ... all of us sometimes need forgiveness." None of Ms. Warrens' friends, which were injured in the crash, appeared in court.

"When a decent person makes a terrible mistake and takes a life, we are all kind of left unsatisfied that the punishment never fits the crime," said Clackamas County Circuit Judge Robert D. Herndon.

Ms. Warren was convicted of criminally negligent homicide, assault and driving drunk.

A Jessamine County, Kentucky woman has pleaded guilty for the second time to charges stemming from a 2006 crash that killed four people, while driving under the influence of alcohol. Melissa Helton was the subject of much litigation, including a 2008 Kentucky Supreme Court case.

According to The Lexington Herald-Leader Melissa Helton pleaded guilty to four counts of wanton murder, one count of wanton endangerment and driving under the influence.

The four victims were passengers in Ms. Heltons minivan. There were three children, her son Nicholas, 12, eleven year old Caleb Hildenbrandt and ten year old Emily Ann Preston. Forty year old Lori Latham, also a passenger in the vehicle, died three months later from injuries she had sustained in the crash.