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Escaped Inmate Caught After 43 Years: Associated Press reporter Brian Witte writes that Maryland police have captured convicted armed robber Willie ?Pops? Parker, who escaped from Maryland?s Eastern Correctional Camp in 1965. Parker, who is now 81, was tracked down by authorities who found he was collecting social security, had a driver's license and was registered to vote under his own name. Kansas Law Requires Drug Testing of Drivers involved in serious auto accidents, according to a story in the trucking magazine Land Line . The new law, which takes effect on July 1st, requires law enforcement to give drug and alcohol tests to drivers involved in any accident resulting in fatalities or serious injuries. Opponents charge that mandatory testing without probable cause is unconstitutional...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on May 30, 2008 (boomark / email).