Reducing the blood-alcohol limit to .05 – as it is is most other first-world countries – could save more than 7,000 lives a year, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says.
May 2013
Imprisoned Maine foster mother loses bid to ease probation
Sally Ann Schofield, a former state child caseworker from Chelsea, was convicted in 2002 of suffocating to death 5-year-old Logan Marr.
Former Portland police chief named top cop in Detroit
A ‘very excited’ James Craig will be chief of the department where he got his policing start in 1977.
Guarding bombing suspect’s body cost almost $50K
Several officers at a time provided round-the-clock security at the Worcester, Mass., funeral parlor before Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body was whisked away for burial last Thursday.
Bank robber old, but not the Geezer Bandit
No getaway car. The robber left the bank pulling a rolling suitcase.
Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths
More than 573,000 birds are killed by the country’s wind farms each year, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles, according to an estimate published in March in the peer-reviewed Wildlife Society Bulletin.
British PM Cameron visits Boston Marathon memorial
Cameron visits the makeshift memorial in Copley Square accompanied by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.
Maine woman charged in NH death seeks investigator
Michelle Corson, of Skowhegan, is charged with being an accomplice to first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the death of Amanda Warf.
Popular psychologist Joyce Brothers dead at 85
She pioneered the television advice show in the 1950s, opening the airwaves to discussions of love, marriage and parenting, as well as such taboo subjects as menopause, frigidity, impotence and sexual enjoyment.
Jolie admired for bravery in mastectomy revelation
The Oscar-winning actress says she made the choice with thoughts of her six children after watching her own mother die young from cancer.