Boston Globe series on drunk driving wins Polk Award

- The Boston Globe Spotlight Team has won a George Polk Award, one of journalism’s top honors, for its investigative series that showed a majority of alleged drunk drivers in Massachusetts are found not guilty by judges, not juries.

Onyango Obama obtains police officer’s driving history

- The attorney for Onyango Obama, the uncle of President Obama, today told a judge that he now has the driving history of the Framingham police officer who arrested Onyango Obama for drunk driving last year — records he’d planned to ask for during a court hearing today.

(Relaxnews) - A new European study published this month reports that prolonged nighttime driving can be just as hazardous as driving drunk.