Porter County students get a feel for impaired driving

More than 1,500 Porter County students were given the opportunity to experience the hazards of impaired driving in recent weeks.

EDITORIAL: Ignition interlock devices are key to safety

One of the National Transportation Safety Board's recommendations for decreasing the number of traffic fatalities seems dead on arrival in the Indiana General Assembly. But that shouldn't stop the state from following up on another suggestion.

Indiana lawmakers unlikely to adopt lower drunken driving threshold

INDIANAPOLIS | Indiana's federal-phobic Legislature likely won't follow a national safety panel's recommendation that states reduce their drunken driving limits to 0.05 blood alcohol content from 0.08.

Lower drunk-driving limit gets mixed reviews in Illinois

SPRINGFIELD | A proposal to toughen drunk-driving laws is getting mixed reviews among Illinois legislators, top state officials and local police.

I'm picking up bottles tossed by drunken drivers

Now that I am retired I have the time to walk my dog in the morning every day, rain or shine, for about a mile or so.

Driver in fatal M'ville DUI gets seven years taken off prison term

INDIANAPOLIS | The Indiana Court of Appeals has reduced the prison term of a Winfield man who, while driving drunk and fleeing Merrillville police in 2006, struck and killed a motorcyclist, Kirk John Mitchell.

Man arrested for illegally passing school bus while allegedly drunk

LAPORTE | A LaPorte school bus stopped to let children off Monday afternoon was passed by an alleged drunk driver.

Dropping names doesn't stop man from being arrested

PORTAGE | Calling a female police officer "hun" and "honey" and dropping names of other officers didn't prevent a Hobart man from being arrested early Saturday morning on drunk driving charges.

Man who drove into house charged with DUI

PORTAGE | A Portage man has been charged with being intoxicated when he drove an SUV into a South Haven house on Thursday.

Motorist given four years in DUI death case

VALPARAISO | Center Township resident David Corbett had tears running down his cheeks as Amy Schwartz described the pain her family has suffered as a result of Corbett driving drunk and killing her father-in-law while he was driving his motorcycle.

Drunk driving patrols to increase for holiday

CHICAGO | Law enforcement agencies across Illinois say they're increasing drunken driving patrols and seat belt check as the New Year's holiday approaches.

Westville man faces second drunk driving charge

LAPORTE | A 60-year-old Westville man could be looking at prison time after being charged with his second drunk driving offense within the past four months.

Guilty plea in Porter County DUI death case

VALPARAISO | A Center Township man pleaded guilty to a felony count of driving drunk on June 21, 2011, and causing the death of a motorcyclist along Ind. 49 at County Road 600 South in Morgan Township.

Police use Taser on man who fled from vehicle

PORTAGE | A Portage man learned this weekend that it's not a good thing to run from police.

Four arrested at alleged underage drinking party

PORTAGE | Four people were arrested Wednesday morning at an alleged underage drinking party.

Porter County crime briefs

Pickup driver faces DUI count after two minor car crashes

Impaired driving crackdown spawns 104 arrests, citations

PORTAGE | The Portage Police Department recently participated in a nationwide crackdown on impaired driving through the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign.

Police: Driver slams SUV into Porter house

PORTER | A Lake Station man was arrested Tuesday night after police said he failed to stop at a stop sign, drove through a yard and struck a house.

Kouts man arrested following crash

A Kouts man involved in a motor vehicle crash outside Michigan City allegedly had a blood alcohol content level nearly five times the legal limit.

Porter County man pleads guilty to fighting officer

VALPARAISO | A 48-year-old Liberty Township man faces two years behind bars after pleading guilty Monday to intimidating and battering a police officer in September.