“Ex-Baywatch star David Hasselhoff was reportedly taken to hospital by ambulance after an alleged boozy bender it was claimed today. According to gossip website TMZ, paramedics were called to his LA home at 3pm yesterday after The Hoff’s teenage daughter Hayley, 17, called her mum, Pamela Bach, and said her dad was ‘extremely drunk’.” Link
“Mercury star Diana Taurasi faces three drunken driving related charges, including extreme DUI, for a July 2 incident in which she also was cited for speeding. A Phoenix police report released Tuesday shows Taurasi’s blood-alcohol level was 0.17 percent, or more than twice the Arizona legal limit of 0.08 percent.” Link
“Brown-Forman Corp. said Friday its second-quarter profit rose 11 percent on gains by its Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey and Finlandia vodka brands. The liquor company also raised its full-year earnings projection due to a predicted net gain from the expected sale of its Bolla and Fontana Candida wine brands.” [Link]
“A Cape Coral man got a designated driver to take him on a beer run after he ran out of alcohol. The driver was the man’s 9-year-old-son, Cape Coral police said. Joshua James Fagan, 27, of Northwest 29th Terrace, is charged with an act of cruelty toward a child that could result in physical or mental injury and allowing an unlicensed minor to drive.” [Link]
“A Mesa baby sitter has been arrested and accused by Mesa police of leaving two children home alone while she went out drinking. The children’s mother told police her boyfriend’s sister, 18-year-old Synjan Mitchell, was baby-sitting her 5-month-old daughter and 21-month-old son Wednesday. The mother told police she came home and found the front door of her apartment open.The mother says she found loud music playing, beer cans scattered on the floor and her two children home alone.” [Link]
“The $52 billion acquisition, announced in November, creates a new entity, Anheuser-Busch InBev, which immediately becomes the world’s largest brewer, with a brand stable that includes Budweiser, Bud Light, Stella Artois, Beck’s, Michelob, Busch, Brahma and many other brews. ” [Link]