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Charges dropped against officer charged with DUI

Carroll County prosecutors have dropped DUI charges against a Baltimore County police captain. Forty-four-year-old Matthew McElwee of Hanover, Pa., was cited March 16 when he was stopped at a sobriety checkpoint in Hampstead. He was accused of driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and driving while impaired ...

Top Pa. senator: Liquor bill still lacks support

Top Republican state senators continued to seek enough support Tuesday to pass legislation one of their members is writing to liberalize wine, beer and liquor sales in Pennsylvania and give Gov. Tom Corbett the ability to claim victory on one of his top priorities. However, legislation being written by Bucks ...

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THE VETERANS AFFAIRS/LEGIONELLA MESS: IT GROWS AND GROWS Just when you thought the Legionella scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs' hospitals in Pittsburgh couldn't get any worse, it explodes. As the Trib reported on Sunday, the bacteria that can lead to Legionnaires' disease were running rampant at the VA's ...

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2012 file photo, award-winning chef Charlie Trotter is seen during an interview with The Associated Press at his restaurant in Chicago. A federal lawsuit filed Thursday, June 13, 2013, in Chicago accuses Trotter and one of his wine experts of duping two New York wine collectors into buying what they thought was a bottle of 1945 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti magnum in June 2012. They are seeking damages of more than $76,000. They accuse Trotter and his company of violating Illinois consumer fraud laws. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong, File)

Charlie Trotter accused of selling bogus $46K wine

Award-winning chef Charlie Trotter is being sued by two New York wine collectors who say he sold them a bottle of wine for more than $46,000 that wasn't what it said on the label. The federal lawsuit filed Thursday in Chicago accuses Trotter and one of his wine experts of ...

This Clark County Dentention Center booking photo shows environmental activist Erin Brockovich, 52, who was arrested late Friday June 7,2013 on suspicion of boating while intoxicated at Lake Mead near Las Vegas. Brockovich was released from the Clark County Detention Center after posting $1,000 bail.(AP Photo/Clark County Detention Center)

DA: Brockovich to face misdemeanor boat DUI charge

Environmental activist and movie namesake Erin Brockovich will face a misdemeanor charge of operating a boat while intoxicated at Lake Mead, the district attorney in Las Vegas decided Tuesday. Brockovich, 52, has an Oct. 7 court date in Henderson Justice Court stemming from her arrest Friday evening at a marina ...

Pa. woman convicted in NYC DUI crash

A Pennsylvania woman has been convicted in a New York City drunken driving crash that pinned two construction workers against a truck. Bystanders were able to free one of the workers after the February 2012 wreck. The other victim's leg was crushed. It later had to be amputated. Manhattan District ...

Pa. liquor privatization drive hits wholesale snag

What may end up derailing the Republicans' drive to privatize Pennsylvania's sale of wine and liquor is not who gets to sell it — but who gets to deliver it. Both a four-month-old plan by Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican, and a bill that passed the GOP-controlled House in March ...

Study sheds light on origins of French winemaking

Scrapings from the bottoms of 2,500-year-old pottery containers have shed new light on the origins of French winemaking. A team of archaeologists led by the University of Pennsylvania's Patrick McGovern used biomolecular analysis to confirm that fifth-century B.C. Etruscan amphorae found near Montpellier in southern France once contained a type ...

FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2012 file photo, a worker collects white grapes in the vineyards of the Chateau Haut Brion, a Premier Grand Cru des Graves, during the grape harvest in Pessac-Leognan, near Bordeaux, southwestern France. Scientists using biomolecular analysis of ancient amphorae have proven that winemaking began in France as early as the fifth century BC, when local Celts picked up viticultural techniques from seafaring Etruscans from central Italy. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, File)

Study sheds light on origins of French winemaking

Scrapings from the bottoms of 2,500-year-old pottery containers have shed new light on the origins of French winemaking. A team of archaeologists led by the University of Pennsylvania's Patrick McGovern used biomolecular analysis to confirm that fifth-century B.C. Etruscan amphorae found near Montpellier in southern France once contained a type ...

FILE - In this June 13, 2010 file photo, a Spirit Airlines airplane sits on the tarmac at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Beginning in June 2013, Spirit Airlines will start serving wine in cans, saying the cans are easier to store, and they weigh less than bottles. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Spirit Airlines starts serving wine in cans

Spirit Airlines is thinking outside of the bottle. The low-cost carrier known for extra fees and cheeky ads is now pouring wine out of aluminum cans. Starting this week, passengers can purchase white moscato or strawberry moscato wine from Friends Fun Wine, an Aventura, Fla. company. Spirit will continue to ...

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