{"id":16449,"date":"2013-04-10T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T19:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=16449"},"modified":"2013-04-10T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T19:21:34","slug":"n-d-senate-endorses-stiffer-drunk-driving-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=16449","title":{"rendered":"N.D. Senate Endorses Stiffer Drunk Driving Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s Senate has unanimously endorsed a bill aimed at strengthening penalties for drunken driving.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senators approved the bill 47-0 on Wednesday. The measure will now go to a conference committee to work out differences of House and Senate versions of the bill.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Along with increased fines and other penalties, the measure would require jail time or community service work for first-time DUI offenders who have blood alcohol content of 0.18 percent. That&#8217;s more than twice the state&#8217;s legal limit of 0.08 percent.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The bill also would require mandatory participation in the so-called 24\/7 sobriety program for repeat offenders.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Data show DUI arrests in North Dakota have increased 53 percent in the last 10 years, including 6,600 arrests last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s Senate has unanimously endorsed a bill aimed at strengthening penalties for drunken driving. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senators approved the bill 47-0 on Wednesday. The measure will now go to a conference committee to work out differences of House and Senate versions of the bill. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16450,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449\/revisions\/16450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}