IDAHO FALLS — EastIdahoNews.com is looking back at what life was like during the week of Feb. 16 to Feb. 22 in east Idaho history. AMERICAN FALLS — An American Falls man returned home after being away ...

INVENTED BY an IU professor and an Indiana State Police captain in 1954, the Breathalyzer has saved “hundreds of thousands of lives,” forensic toxicologist Barry Logan says. Here’s how the ...

Boeing wants to fight fire with firepower — because howitzers can deliver fire retardant, too. A look at the Breathalyzer s predecessor, which was much bigger and called the Drunkometer. Weeping ...

Here’s a quick trivia question. Can you guess how many drunk driving convictions there were in Syracuse Traffic Court in 1948? The amazing answer is only 12! And that number was high. In 1947 there ...

In 1938, on New Year's Eve, police in Indianapolis put a new piece of technology through its first practical test. They used a breath analyzer to determine if someone had been drinking. What was then ...

It was a man named George Smith who plowed his car into the side of a London building that made history on Sept. 10, 1897 as the first person to ever catch a DWI. Since the boozy collar, drunk driving ...

Robert F. Borkenstein, whose Breathalyzer has helped snare millions of intoxicated drivers in the United States and around the world, died Aug. 10 at his home in Bloomington, Ind. He was 89 and had ...

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