An arrest in Austin, Texas, leads news summary including an appeal in Myanmar, a request to leave Pakistan and a judge's effort to ward off political attacks.

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OCEAN CITY — A Baltimore County Republican state delegate was arrested Thursday night and charged with driving while impaired by alcohol following an early evening traffic stop. Del. Richard Impallaria, who represents Baltimore and Harford counties, was stopped by police after an ...

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Maryland motorists can’t keep their blood-alcohol concentration test out of evidence in a license-suspension hearing by arguing that they were denied the right to consult with an attorney before taking it, the state’s top court held Wednesday.

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A police officer cannot reject a motorist’s request to call and consult with an attorney before submitting to a blood-alcohol concentration test when failure could result in a suspended driver’s license, a defense lawyer argued before Maryland’s top court Thursday.

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NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey can continue to use an alcohol breath test in drunken driving cases that has been the focus of years of litigation and at one point was suspended due to questions over its reliability, the state ...

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Colleagues say Del. Don Dwyer should resign from the House of Delegates so he can reconsider the direction of his life.

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ANNAPOLIS — A Maryland lawmaker awaiting sentencing on a drunken boating conviction was charged Tuesday with drunken driving after a police officer observed him committing multiple traffic violations, authorities said. Del. Don Dwyer, R-Anne Arundel, was charged with driving while ...

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The Supreme Court has stepped into a dispute over whether lawyers can obtain personal information from driver license records to recruit clients for lawsuits, despite a federal privacy law intended to shield motor vehicle records.

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Most attorneys say working a drunk boating case is almost the same as representing a drunk car driver.

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Maryland boaters often pair a day on the waves with a cold beer, whether they’re charging through the water on a speedboat or quietly floating with a fishing line below the surface.

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