Interactive map
Rates of breath-test refusals by town
See the town-by-town rates of drivers who refuse to take a breath test from 2008 to 2010.
Spotlight Report
Court mismatch makes OUI justice elusive
Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff
Lawyers who specialize in defending drunk drivers enjoy huge legal advantages built into state law, and have the ear of some judges prone to favor their arguments, no matter how far-fetched.
Trial excerpts
How to defend an accused drunk driver
A 23-year-old financial worker almost caused an accident, failed field sobriety tests and blew .25 on the breathalyzer test. But this top OUI defense attorney got the driver acquitted.
Globe Spotlight Report
Under the influence
Full coverage of the Globe’s investigation into OUI acquittal rates.
Bill Greene/Globe Staff
Alzheimer’s is stealing Bruce Vincent away
Alzheimer’s has quickened its pace, snatching from Vincent more abilities than it had since his diagnosis three years earlier. But his humor and selfless core endure.
Web primary aims to find third option for president
Frustrated by the gridlock in Washington, a well-funded bipartisan group of activists and political professionals plans to give voters a third choice for president in 2012.
Penn State scandal prompts anger, reflection
The sexual abuse scandal has renewed the long-running debate over the outsized influence of big-time college athletics.
Boston’s piano bars are almost gone
The hotel piano bar scene is fading into memory, clinging to one last room at the Fairmont Copley Plaza’s Oak Bar.
“I represent nice people who, at the worst, are somebody with an alcohol problem.”
Stephen Jones, a defense attorney specializing in drunken driving cases
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
Support, tears at home of slain family
With tears streaming down her cheeks, a relative of Donald Rudolph said yesterday that more should have been done to address his troubling behavior.
Business
MONEY MAKEOVER
Midlife career change creates questions
After 31 years as a flight attendant, Karen Andrew took the company-offered buyout and set out to create a new career as a nutrition counselor.
Politics
GOP candidates reveal foreign policy differences
The international affairs debate showed clear divisions on the elimination of foreign aid and the use of waterboarding on terrorist suspects.
Nation & World
Arab League moves to suspend Syria
The Arab League threatened economic and political sanctions against the government of President Bashar Assad, as it moved to suspend the country’s membership.
Sports
Bruins 6, Sabres 2
Lucic, Bruins crash the net
After Milan Lucic flattened Buffalo goalie Ryan Miller in the first period, the Bruins found their legs and kicked off their rally to beat the Sabres.
Arts
art REVIEW
Portland show is a study in simplicity by design
In the 1920s, Edward and Faith Andrews began collecting chairs, tables, clothes, and other items created over the previous century by Shaker communities in New England.
Travel
Confessions of a crop circle chaser in England
Dozens of crop circles still appear every summer in Wiltshire, England. Like storm chasers, once a location is established a carload of “croppies” heads out to find the circle.
Books
book review
‘And So It Goes’ by Charles Shield
It’s a fascinating exploration of dark complexities and the literary influences of Kurt Vonnegut.
Opinion
“Only in sports is it hard to believe that a legend can tarnish itself.”
Joanna Weiss, on the Penn State child sex abuse scandal
Ideas
“It may seem intimidating when we say you are going to help transcribe ancient Greek papyri, but it’s all about pattern recognition, and the brain excels at pattern recognition.”
James Brusuelas, an Oxford classicist who is part of the Ancient Lives team