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Valley’s young drivers use technology to avoid DUI checkpoints A driver suspected of driving under the influence is led away in handcuffs Wednesday after taking a blood test at a sobriety checkpoint. [1]

I always felt DUI checkpoints were unconstitutional. [2]

The argument has been made that DUI checkpoints are an infringement of the Fourth Amendment, which protects us against unreasonable search and seizure. [3]

PHOENIX — Police say more motorists trying to elude arrest for drunken driving are using social media sites like Twitter and Facebook to alert other drivers about DUI checkpoints. [4]

Dave Gibeault, head of the Fresno Police Department’s traffic unit. [2]

Dave Gibeault, head of the Fresno Police Department’s traffic unit. [...] Trying to elude arrest for drunken driving, young people use technology to keep each other informed about the location of sobriety checkpoints, said Sgt. [5]

Last year during the 2008 holiday period, Avoid reported that there were 827 DUI arrests in Santa Clara County alone. [3]

In addition to the more than 50 Sacramento police officers who will be handling crowd control, parking, traffic and other issues downtown tonight, there will be at least four officers looking for drunken drivers. [6]

The grants will go to the Fresno Police Department and the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office to arrest and charge drunken drivers next year. [1]

On Twitter, a free electronic message service that runs on both cell phones and computers, drivers can warn each other with “tweets” listing intersections where police have set up checkpoints. [5]

The Police Department’s traffic safety unit will use its $482,000 grant to pay for 100 sobriety checkpoints, bar stakeouts and court stings — in which undercover officers make sure offenders who have lost licenses do not drive away from court hearings. [1]

It is not your imagination there actually are more law enforcement officers on the roads during the holiday season and therefore there’s a greater likelihood that you could be arrested for DUI. [3]

There will also be a sobriety and driver’s license checkpoint downtown, but police are not yet disclosing the location. [6]

Tools include Twitter, text messages and an iPhone application specifically designed to identify checkpoints, Gibeault said. [5]

Sources:
[1] Technology helps drivers avoid DUI checkpoints - Local …
[2] Drivers use technology to avoid sobriety checkpoints | The …
[3] Holiday DUI Checkpoints - Are Drunk Driving Checkpoints Legal?
[4] Tweets Warn Of DUI Traps - Phoenix News Story - KPHO Phoenix
[5] Police: Twitter used to avoid DUI checkpoints
[6] Sacramento Bee — Sacto 9-1-1

Auburn and Mississippi State are still waiting to hear something on junior college quarterback Cameron Newton, who was originally supposed to make his college choice Thursday. [1]

Cameron Jerrell Newton is a American football quarterback for Auburn University. [...] Newton was back-up quarterback to star Tim Tebow at the University of Florida earning a spot ahead of freshman John Brantley and junior college transfer Bryan Waggener, before transferring. [2]

If Florida plays up to their potential on Saturday against Hawaii, the outcome of the game shouldn’t be in doubt for very long. [3]

Quarterback Cameron Newton has made a decison on where he will play for the 2010 season. [4]

Auburn and Mississippi State could be fighting it out for former Florida quarterback Cameron Newton, who plans to sign somewhere next week and will enroll in January. [...] The 6-foot-6, 245-pound Newton passed for more than 2,800 yards and 22 touchdowns at Blinn (Texas) College this season and also rushed for 655 yards and 16 touchdowns. [1]

Delay of game: Five-star junior college quarterback Cameron Newton will delay when he announces his college choice, according to BulldawgJunction.com. [4]

With that, he broke off the afternoon press briefing, leaving everyone to speculate whether he was talking about freshman John Brantley or juco transfer Bryan Waggener, who have been practicing all along, or perhaps freshman Cameron Newton, who was the number two in the spring. [5]

2006- As a senior, Newton ran for 1,000 yards, and threw for 1,400. [2]

Defensive tackle James Carmon and running back Vick Ballard, both of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, signed with the Bulldogs on Wednesday, the first day junior college players were allowed to sign. [1]

Westlake quarterback Cameron Newton is officially enrolled as a freshman at Florida. [4]

The Bulldogs redshirted freshman Tyler Russell. [1]

2005- As a junior, Newton ran for 638 yards, with 9 touchdowns, and threw for 2,500, completing 118 out of 189 pass attempts, for 23 touchdowns, and 9 interceptions. [2]

There have been rumors that OU will bring in Blinn College quarterback Cameron Newton to provide Jones with competition for next year, and there are high hopes for quarterback recruit Blake Bell. [5]

Sources:
[1] Cameron Newton - SEC Blog - ESPN
[2] Cameron Newton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] Cameron Newton - College Football
[4] Cameron Newton - Florida Gators Cameron Newton - Cameron …
[5] Gatorsgetsurprise,Champion’sNight

Inger Stevens (October 18, 1934 ‘ April 30, 1970) was a Swedish-American movie and TV actress. [1]

At age 16, Inger Stevens broke into show business in a Kansas City burlesque show. [2]

… this decision would have far-reaching consequences: Inger Stevens, whose public image was the self-sufficient, refreshingly frank and direct, up-and-coming single actress, had suddenly acquired a career-threatening secret, a double-life, one that she had to hide from the inquisitive general public. [3]

Inger Stevens was born Oct. 18, 1933, in Stockholm, Sweden. [4]

Visitors should keep in mind that while many of the key events of her life have been substantiated, Inger herself in later interviews would often exaggerate and/or minimize other details and events, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, other times in the best interest of her public persona. [...] Nevertheless, her recovery from this incident was surprising: only two months later she was back at work, guest starring on several television series. [3]

From 1961 to her death, she was secretly married to Ike Jones, a black American actor. [...] Simultaneously, she took classes at the Actors Studio. [1]

Aside from her making her film debut in the film, Inger made more Hollywood headlines when she and Crosby began dating; however, the relationship ended when Crosby married actress Katherine Grant instead. [3]

Her parents separated and she came to the United States to live with her father when she was 13. [4]

There are a number of websites that have short biographical essays about Inger’s life that can be readily found on the internet: Wikipedia, the Internet Movie Database, and Find A Grave are but a few. [3]

Following her death, it came out in the tabloids that she had been secretly married to African-American Ike Jones since 1961. [5]

At age 13, she and her father moved to Manhattan, Kansas, where she attended Manhattan High School (Kansas). [1]

After her death at age 36, it was later revealed that she had been secretly married since 1961 to black musician Isaac (Ike) Jones. [...] She moved to New York at age 18, working in the garment center and as a chorus girl while studying theater at the Actors Studio and making the rounds of Broadway agents. [2]

Sources:
[1] Inger Stevens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] Inger Stevens: Information from Answers.com
[3] IS Bio
[4] Inger Stevens
[5] Inger Stevens - Biography

Stanford, meanwhile, is making its first postseason appearance since the 2001 season and just its seventh in the past two decades. [...] Oklahoma ended the 2008 season playing for the national championship, and it went into this season hoping for another shot at the title. [1]

Huffpost - Sun Bowl 2009: Stanford Vs. [2]

The Stanford football team could have some Luck, a little Luck, or no Luck at all when the Cardinal meets Oklahoma in the Sun Bowl on Thursday, Dec. 31, at El Paso, Tex. [...] Permission to republish Stanford vs. Oklahoma Football in print or online must be granted by the author in writing. [...] Gerhart, who leads the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision in touchdowns and rushing yards, will face the No. 7 run defense in the FBS. [...] But Gerhart’s success on New Year’s Eve day will depend heavily on how well Stanford makes the Sooners respect its passing game. [...] Quarterback Sam Bradford, the 2008 Heisman Trophy winner, played in one full game and parts of two others before being lost for the season because of a shoulder injury. [3]

It also will be the final game for Oklahoma All-America DT Gerald McCoy and it could be the final game for Sooners LB Travis Lewis, a third-year sophomore. [...] KEY STATS: Stanford is No. 11 nationally in rushing offense at 224.3 yards per game. [...] The 7-5 Sooners find themselves playing in a pre-New Year’s Day game for the first time in four seasons and just the second time this decade. [1]

Tickets for the Oklahoma’s Brut Sun Bowl matchup versus Stanford are on sale now. [4]

Stanford makes no bones about its offense: It’s all about the rushing attack. [1]

The Sooners won three of the first four. [2]

WHERE: Sun Bowl, El Paso, Texas. [1]

Sources:
[1] Rivals.com College Football - Sun Bowl: Oklahoma vs. Stanford
[2] Sun Bowl 2009: Stanford Vs. Oklahoma
[3] Stanford vs. Oklahoma Football: 2009 Sun Bowl Preview
[4] Oklahoma vs. Stanford - Oklahoma Sooners Football

Kevin Pearce is a member of the U.S. Olympic team at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. [1]

Though he’s still only 22, Kevin Pearce has already lived a storied snowboarding life… Not only did the Vermont native receive his first snowboard from Jake Burton, but he’s the rare halfpipe rider who can boast of victory over Shaun White… Pearce is also a member of the FRENDS crew, a group of snowboarders that shuns individual acclaim (hence the missing “i” in “friends”). [2]

Besides landing just about everything, everywhere (including a 1260 at the Air and Style), the Norwich, VT native stacked some serious cash with a win at the Burton European Open pipe and the Arctic Challenge quarterpipe, as well as a 3rd at the U.S. Open pipe. [3]

Hey good job at winter x. [4]

Over 250 Americans will compete in the 2010 Winter Olympics Games. [2]

The Boardlords Happy Quanza Wuddup Kevin Wuddup Benny! [4]

2007 2nd Place Quarterpipe Abominable Snow Jam Mt. [5]

Jane? Dude, I was just checking the TWS photos from the Artic Air Challenge and I just have to let you know that you probably have one of the best smiles I’ve ever seen. [4]

SPONSORS: VOLCOM, BURTON SNOWBOARDS, OAKLEY, SOBE, FRENDS, GO211.COM. [5]

Kevin Pearce of the United States competes during the final of the women’s Snowboard Half-Pipe FIS World Cup 2009 event, 05 November 2009, on the Allalin glacier in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. [...] Find more Kevin Pearce news, pictures, and information here. [1]

Luke Mitrani Can’t wait to see you man! [4]

Any use, reproduction, modification, distribution, display or performance of this material without NBC Universal’s prior written consent is prohibited. [2]

Kevin Pearce is competing for medals in Olympic Snowboard. [1]

Tricia Byrnes Come back to Wanaka, New Zealand isn’t the same without the Kevin, Jack, Luke crew…. [4]

Sources:
[1] Kevin Pearce - Zimbio
[2] Kevin Pearce - Video, News, Photos | NBC Olympics
[3] Kevin Pearce on FUEL.TV ‘ Action Sports Videos, Webcasts …
[4] GO211 Snowboarder Kevin Pearce’s Action Sports Profile
[5] Volcom | Youth Against Establishment | KEVIN PEARCE