Toxicology results show a Minnesota woman was legally drunk when she drove an SUV into the Mississippi River last month, killing herself and her three male passengers.
The St. Cloud Police Department has joined the Stearns County Sheriff's Office in requiring search warrants to take blood samples from suspected impaired drivers who won't give them voluntarily.
A South St. Paul police sergeant is accused of driving drunk and then fleeing police. According to charges filed Friday, a field-sobriety test showed Cory Slifko had a blood-alcohol level that was twice the legal limit shortly after he was arrested about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Public safety officials say more than 2,000 impaired drivers were arrested during a DWI crackdown in Minnesota last month. According to preliminary reports, Minnesota law agencies arrested 2,551 drivers in December as part of a statewide "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" DWI enforcement campaign.
Public safety officials say at least 300 people were arrested in Minnesota on suspicion of DWI over the New Year's holiday. One person died in a crash north of Deer River late on the afternoon of New Year's Eve.
Public safety officials are aiming for the fifth consecutive year with no drunken-driving deaths in Minnesota on New Year's Eve. In the past 10 years there have been eight drunken-driving deaths in Minnesota during the New Year's holiday, but none in the past four years.
A 43-year-old St. Cloud man has been arrested for allegedly driving drunk. St. Cloud police stopped Dexter Drummer's vehicle just after 9:30 p.m. last (Monday) night near the intersection of Riverside Drive and East St. Germain Street.