If you need any more reasons not to drink and drive, consider this: A driving-under-the-influence conviction is a financial wrecking ball. A typical DUI costs about $10,000 by the time you pay bail, fines, fees and insurance, even if you didn’t hit anything or hurt anybody.
A fine is just the start of what you’ll pay [...]

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Kelly Medora, a petite preschool teacher who weighed about 118 pounds, went out with a friend in North Beach one Saturday night in 2005 for some fun.
Instead, San Francisco police officer Christopher Damonte, who weighed about 250 pounds, arrested her for jaywalking, twisted her arm behind her back and broke it with an audible crack.
Although [...]

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Pleasanton police in coordination with other law enforcement agencies impounded 15 vehicles during a sobriety checkpoint Monday night, according to the Police Department.
The checkpoint was set up on westbound Bernal Avenue at Pleasanton Avenue from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., police said.
Livermore and Dublin police, the California Highway Patrol and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office [...]

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