Police on the Big Island arrested 22 motorists for drunk driving last week, bringing the number of DUI arrests this year to 714. DUI arrests are up 9 percent over the same period last year, when 656 arrests were made.
A request to increase the DUI fee is at the top of the agenda for the meeting of the Advisory Board for Madera County Behavioral Health Services' Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) programs.
Shannon Wall pled has guilty to felony child neglect, DUI, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor for a crash that occurred last November. The accident happened about one in the morning.
A young woman is facing DUI charges after a fiery crash early Tuesday morning. Police say the 21-year-old woman was going east on Flamingo in her SUV when she rear-ended another car.