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FILE - This June 7, 2003 file photo shows a man drinking a beer standing with other Native Americans on the streets of Whiteclay, Neb.The Oglala Sioux Tribe announced Thursday, Feb. 6, 2012, that it will file a $500 million federal lawsuit against some of the nation's largest beer distributors, alleging that they knowingly contributed to the chronic alcoholism, health problems and other social ills on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The lawsuit also targets the four beer stores in Whiteclay, a Nebraska town (pop. 11) on the South Dakota border that sells about 5 million cans of beer per year. (AP Photo/William Lauer, File)

Tribe suing beer companies for alcohol problems

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 5:29pm

LINCOLN, Neb. -- An American Indian tribe sued some of the world's largest beer makers Thursday, claiming they knowingly contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

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Dining, liquor focus of Utah bill

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 7:58am

SALT LAKE CITY -- If Utah's alcohol laws are loosened up a bit, it could boast the state's economy, one businessman said.

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The majority of responding Idaho students, 65 percent, said they had tried alcohol sometime during their lifetimes, and 22 percent said they consumed five or more alcoholic drinks in a row on at least one of the 30 days preceding the survey.

Survey: 65% of Idaho teens have tried alcohol

Staff Moscow-Pullman Daily News

Last updated Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 10:01am

The Idaho State Department of Education on Wednesday released the results of a 2011 survey of the state's high school students regarding their participation in risky behaviors.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which was administered last spring to more than 1,700 students in 48 randomly selected public high schools in Idaho.

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Drunken sailor winds up in wrong apartment bed

Christine Clarridge The Seattle Times

Last updated Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 12:21pm

SEATTLE -- An intoxicated sailor who walked into the wrong apartment in Bremerton, Wash., urinated on the floor and then climbed into bed with an 80-year-old woman probably won't face criminal charges, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office.

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Wilson's war: Substance abusers receiving financial help for Department of Workforce Services

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 7:09am

SALT LAKE CITY — A Kaysville lawmaker is proposing that every person who files for financial help from the Department of Workforce Services be required to take a written test to determine if they are addicted to drugs or alcohol.

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City council revises alcohol ordinance

Amber Weston Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 10:49pm

Harrisville -- The city council has passed an alcoholic beverage control ordinance.

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Sales Clerk Craig Roberts stocks the shelves from behind at the State Liquor Store on 2nd street in Ogden Thursday August 10, 2006. Alcoholic beverages are becoming more popular in Utah as state demographics change sales in liquor stores have nearly doubled in the last decade. (Standard Examiner Photo/ Robert Johnson)

Biz owners proposing changes to Utah liquor agency

Josh Loftin The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 2:01pm

SALT LAKE CITY — When David Cole decided to open a Salt Lake City microbrewery, Utah regulators required him to build the brewing facility before they would give him a liquor license.

Cole had to invest significant capital into Epic Brewing with no assurances he could ever make the beer. While the state did eventually give its approval, Cole said it illustrated the burdensome nature of Utah’s liquor laws.

Cole is part of a group of bar, restaurant and ski resort owners that issued recommendations Friday to put more flexibility in Utah’s liquor regulations. The group was organized by Democratic legislative leaders as a way to bring new voices to a debate that is often driven by Republican lawmakers who abstain from alcohol because of their Mormon faith.

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It's official: Booze makes people happier

Erin Allday San Francisco Chronicle

Last updated Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 2:54pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- It's no big secret that alcohol makes most people feel pretty good, but scientists have for the first time found evidence that liquor triggers the release of pleasure-inducing endorphins in the brain -- and that heavy drinkers are especially influenced by those endorphins.

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Alcohol companies reach youth online

Meredith Cohn The Baltimore Sun

Last updated Monday, January 9, 2012 - 1:51pm

BALTIMORE -- A beer bottle was lit up like a Christmas tree on one Facebook page and flanked by stuffed animals in another.

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Campign targets teen drinking; parent awareness

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, January 2, 2012 - 8:14am

OGDEN -- Parents need to wake up and smell the alcohol, experts say in a new campaign alerting them to the signs their children may be getting "trashed."

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West Haven partier accused of groping 2 women going to trial

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 23, 2011 - 12:39am

OGDEN -- A trial date has been set in 2nd District Court for a 42-year-old man accused of groping two women on the same night.

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Man faces charges, accused of pointing gun at Layton party

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, December 19, 2011 - 10:38pm

LAYTON — A 28-year-old man is facing a felony charge after police say he pointed a revolver at guests at a party in Layton.

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Woman facing eighth DUI charge could soon see her ninth

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, December 17, 2011 - 8:16am

OGDEN -- A local woman is on the verge of her ninth charge of drunken driving, suspected just days apart from her eighth.

Chera Baird, 44, was in 2nd District Court this week on DUI charge No. 8, filed after a Nov. 18 incident in Ogden in which her blood-alcohol content was measured at 0.223, according to charging documents, nearly three times the 0.08 legal limit for driving.

The Ogden woman's status conference was continued this week to Dec. 28 before Judge W. Brent West.

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New Roy convenience store gets alcohol license

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 10:30pm

ROY — The city council has granted a new 7-Eleven an alcoholic beverage license.

The store at 5605 S. 3500 West was a different convenience store until recently. A new owner changed franchises and refurbished the location. The store will soon reopen for business.

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Pleasant Grove rejects Sunday beer sales ban

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 8:58am

PLEASANT GROVE -- City councilmembers in Pleasant Grove have decided to allow Sunday beer sales at convenience stores, but not at drive-through windows.

The Daily Herald reports (http://bit.ly/s3eC27 ) the 4-1 vote came Tuesday night, amid some residents' complaints that the city was overstepping its boundaries by proposing a ban on the alcohol sales.

City Attorney Tina Petersen said the law technically permits Sunday beer sales at places outside of restaurants, such as convenience stores.

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