A new campaign is underway by a Boston-based company called Cheers to once again make happy hour legal in Boston. An online petition for the move garnered more than 8,500 signatures in just a few days. The petition states that when Massachusetts banned happy hour in 1984, it zapped the…
Massachusetts state police are beefing up their patrols near highway work zones, particularly in areas with high rates of drunk driving crashes and arrests. The decision, reported by The Boston Globe, comes just days after a road construction crew was mowed down by a drunk driver for the fourth time…
Survivors of a man killed in a drunk driving accident have been awarded $12.9 million in damages by an Indiana jury. However, whether they will actually be able to collect those damages is questionable. The details of the wreck, according to the criminal case, Barlow v. State of Indiana, defendant was…
Sure, they call it the “drive-in,” but they don’t mean it literally. Police in Weymouth, Massachusetts say that’s what happened recently when a drunk driver crashed into a drive-in restaurant and then took off. The collision occurred around 2:45 a.m. at Jenna’s Drive-In. The fire department first received word of a…
Addiction can have a powerful hold on people, and it’s also often a driving force behind so many of the repeat DUI offenses that occur across the country. According to the National Department of Transportation, about one-third of all drivers arrested or convicted of drunk driving are repeat offenders. Beyond harsher penalties within…
A few miles from downtown Boston lies Revere Beach, which was the first public beach in America. As most people who live in Boston or the surrounding area know, while you probably wouldn’t want to go swimming there, and the beach actually has dirt with grass growing on it, many…
According to a recent news feature from the Boston Herald, a defendant who was convicted of killing a sister and brother in a deadly hit-and-run car accident in Worcester has just been sentenced and could spend the next 11 years in a Massachusetts Correctional Institute (MCI). The 31-year-old defendant had…
The 39-year-old victim in a serious drunk driving car crash in Weymouth is finally walking again with the assistance of a crutch. The accident occurred in February, and at that time, doctors did not know if he would ever walk again. His total injuries included a brain hemorrhage, a dissected…
There is no question that this primary season has taken a different turn than any in recent memory. Between Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and members of both parties constantly making allegations against the other, there is no shortage of negative press on all sides. One thing that Clinton…
According to a recent news feature from the Natick Patch, the Massachusetts State Senate is trying once again to pass a bill that would require an ignition interlock device for anyone convicted of drunk driving, and this includes first time offenders. While this sounds like an easy thing to accomplish,…