Law enforcement officials throughout the Bay Area arrested 73 suspected drunken drivers during the first 24 hours of their annual DUI enforcement campaign, California Highway Patrol Sgt. Les Bishop reported Sunday.

A statewide crackdown on drunken driving netted 161 arrests on Saturday, bringing the Holiday DUI Task Force's total to 1,254 since the Thanksgiving weekend.

Twenty-two people were arrested Saturday during a Rancho Mirage Police Department DUI/Driver's License Safety Checkpoint on Bob Hope Drive at Gerald Ford Drive, according to a department release.

BELLEFONTE — Centre County's first DUI court could be up and running in the first quarter of 2008 as a pilot program designed not only to punish offenders but to treat the underlying addiction that led to their arrests, Centre County Judge Bradley P. Lunsford said.

A Billings man accused of having a blood-alcohol measurement nearly four times the legal limit when his car struck a pickup truck was charged Friday with felony DUI.

PARADISE -- Two people were arrested and three were cited at a DUI checkpoint Friday night in Paradise.

Police arrested a male driver after he drove off the highway and flipped his GMC truck around 12:48 a.m. Saturday near the El Camino on-ramp and Business 80. Witnesses said the truck swerved off the highway into an intersection at highway speeds. Then the front of the vehicle hit the ground, causing the truck to be airborne. Officers said it landed 80-100 feet from where it initially hit the ...

The athletic director of Bartram Trail High School was arrested Saturday morning and charged with driving under the influence.

The Edwardsville Police Department traffic enforcement period from Nov. 12 to 25 netted five DUI citations and 48 additional traffic violations.

Took place on First and Olive Avenues