The Highland Police
Department will be conducting a DUI/driver license checkpoint
tonight (July 9) on Victoria Avenue just south of Highland Avenue from 6
p.m. to 2 a.m.
MANATEE — After a year of
group meetings, counseling sessions, weekly appearances before a judge
and random alcohol testing, the Manatee County DUI Court Program
had its first commencement with three graduates.
A man with nine prior DUI
convictions was sentenced to 24 years to life in prison Tuesday for an
alleged drunken driving motorcycle crash that killed a 9-year-old girl
and maimed her father in a Novato crosswalk last year.
Lompoc police will
conduct a DUI and driver’s license checkpointtonight, and again
Saturday. Both checkpoints will be operatedsomewhere within the city
limits from 6 p.m. to midnight.