With Bethel voting to enter local option alcohol regulation, bootlegging becomes a felony. Often, the crime has been at the center of local option debates. If liquor stores go away, will bootleggers ...

Because of the lawlessness that Prohibition inspired, as well as the prospect of jobs that legal alcohol production could ...

Sadly, the final days of summer are here, and many of us are trying to squeeze in that last barbeque, the last dip in the pool, and yes that last summer drink. As we savor our fancy watermelon ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Authorities said the owners of Columbia Liquors concocted an elaborate scheme to skip paying taxes on alcohol purchased for their Hammond, Ind., store and then sold for millions in ...

A case of beer and a bottle of whiskey cost the owner of Ambler Air Service $55,000 this week. "This is one of the most expensive drinks in history," said Shannon Eddy, a state prosecutor who works ...

Wartime price and priority controls have already brought back an old U.S. institution: bootlegging. Patriotism alone will not suffice to enforce the new overall price ceiling announced by OPA this ...

A defense attorney downplayed a felony drug charge against a Minnesota man accused of having 260 pounds of suspected marijuana in his pickup when a trooper pulled him over, saying it was akin to ...

The August conviction of Fairbanks pilot and air taxi owner Ken Jouppi has raised questions about the culpability of commercial pilots in Alaska's bootlegging laws. Jouppi was indicted last year on ...

Despite winning the presidency, Donald Trump hasn’t entirely let go of his repeated calls to prosecute Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for her alleged misuse of a private email server. Whether or not ...

Ever brought a six-pack of beer home from the beach? Or a bottle of hard-to-find single malt whiskey from an out-of-state distillery? You broke the law. Under current state law, residents can be fined ...