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Pennsylvania State Police have staged another beer raid, confiscating about a dozen cases from a leading distributor in Northeast Philadelphia and ordering it to stop selling several well-known imports, including Duvel, a popular Belgian beer sold throughout the Philadelphia region.

RALEIGH - Now that North Carolina's no-smoking law has taken effect, most bars and restaurants across the state have thrown away their ashtrays and herded smokers to outdoor patios.

But a few bars are openly flouting the new law, allowing people to puff away indoors as much as ever.

The ones doing so are hookah bars, and their owners argue that, because of a linguistic loophole in the law, the smoking ban doesn't apply to hookah smoking.

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"A county prosecutor said Butler orchestrated DUI arrests - hiring women to get male targets drunk at bars, arranging with police friends to have them arrested for drunken driving, then using the arrest as leverage in child custody cases."

Threats to disrupt the Iowa Republican caucuses next week have prompted state GOP officials to move the vote tabulation to an "undisclosed location," POLITICO has learned. This obviously has nothing to do with Ron Paul, nosiree.

Gov. Bob Riley's gambling task force uses hundreds of state troopers to raid, intimidate, and steal these legal business's money costing the tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars in an already broke state. The Governor has been accused of taking Mississippi Casino money for his campaign and in return promised to shut down all these bingo halls. This action has caused almost 3,000 people to be unemployed. http://www.rileyswebofdeceit.com & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMyPrpTV8Jk

A SCOTS bar has become the first in the UK to sell what's claimed to be the world's strongest beer.

Schorschbock 40 is as alcoholic as whisky and 10 times as potent as normal beers and lagers.

Federal authorities have arrested a New York Police Department officer on charges he helped a crew of bandits rob drug dealers.

Prosecutors in Brooklyn alleged Thursday that Emmanuel Tavarez supplied the crew with NYPD raid jackets, bulletproof vests, handcuffs and badges so they could impersonate police officers during staged raids on drug dens in Queens and elsewhere.

They say he also acted as a lookout during armed holdups that netted hundreds of kilograms of cocaine.

Fort Drum is going to start sending out two person "courtesy patrols" to local bars and restaurants several nights a week. The patrols will target fights, drinking and driving and other misbehavior.

Each “courtesy patrol” will consist of an officer, and a senior non-commissioned officer. Several patrols will operate each Thursday through Sunday from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m., effective immediately.

A St. Paul, Minnesota family claims in a lawsuit that police officers who conducted a wrong-door raid on their home shot their dog, and then forced their three handcuffed children to sit near the dead pet while officers ransacked the home. The lawsuit, which names Ramsey County, the Dakota County Drug Task Force, and the DEA, and asks for $30 million in civil rights violations and punitive damages after a wrong-door raid, also claims that the officers kicked the children and deprived one of them of her diabetes medication.