alcohol

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he doesn't think marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol.

More than a dozen businesses that serve alcohol in the Utica Rome area participated, unknowingly, in a check by New York State Police to test compliance with underage drinking laws.

Almost 200 bottles of a rare, 20-year-old Kentucky bourbon, Pappy Van Winkle, have gone missing from the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky. Authorities think that it may have been an inside job.

Drink up.

No alcohol should be served to minors, and the Rome Police Department is working to make certain people it is not.

To the wild-eyed booze enthusiast, it is a sometimes-necessary evil to cut 80 proof whiskey with diet soda, to keep that girlish figure without having to throw your balls up over your shoulders and just do shots. Good news, friends -- it's also an efficient way to get tanked.

Know when to say, ‘I’ll have another.”

When it comes to ice, we only want it to do one thing -- make our drinks cold. We certainly don't want it to snitch to our friends after we've had one too many. But a MIT student has invented exactly that -- digital ice that monitors how quickly someone is drinking and sends out an alert when they've hit their limit.

Hey, remember this picture of the drunk guy on a flight from Iceland to New York City who had to be restrained with duct tape and zip ties? Allegedly he started screaming on the flight and tried to choke a fellow passenger after drinking a bottle of duty-free alcohol. The crew had to get a little...inventive to resolve the situation. Their solution certainly restrained him, but didn't do much to s

Today is Repeal Day, the day the 18th Amendment was nullified and opened the door to a now thriving alcohol industry.