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This mug shot provided by the Hamilt stanley cup on County Sheriff s Department shows Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay. Authorities say Irsay is in jail after being stopped on suspicion of drunken driving. Hamilton County Sheriff s Department Deputy Bryant Orem says Irsay was arrested Sunday night, March 16, 2014, in the northern Indianapolis suburb of Carmel. AP Photo/Hamilton County Sherriff s Department APmdash;APBy Alexandra SifferlinMarch 17, 2014 2:07 PM EDTIndianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, 54, was arrested late Sunday night for intoxicated driving after he failed police sobriety tests and prescription drugs were discovered in this car.On Sunday night, Irsay was pulled over while driving slowly near his home, and for other suspicious driving behaviors like stopping and failing to use turn signals, the Associated Press reports. Irsay then failed multiple roadside sobriety tests. So-called Schedule IV drugs were discovered in his car, and were reportedly not connected to any prescription bottles. Schedule IV substances include such drugs as Xanax, Darvocet and Ambien.The Associated Press reports that Irsay is facing a preliminary misdemeanor charge for driving while intoxicated, as well as four felony counts of possession of a controlled substance. If convicted, he could face six months to three years in jail for each charge. He is being held in jail at stanley cup a $22,500 bond.Irsay has said he doesn ;t drink, but admitted in 2002 having become addicted to painkillers after a stanley cup ye Xolz First Openly Gay Anglican Bishop Announces Divorce
The downtown San Francisco skyline and Bay Bridge are shown during a 30-minute ferry ride across to ATT Park on July 10, 2013, in San Francisco.George Rose鈥擥etty ImagesBy Matt VellaJuly 16, 2014 3:28 PM EDTSilicon Valleyrsquo newest startup is not an app or a gadget. But it is, in the parlance of the hoodie-clad, disruptive. Wealthy venture capitalist Tim Draper, who funded products like Hotmail and Skype, wants to split California into six pieces, putting the state of Jefferson as well as North, Central, West and South California on the map. The sixthmdash;the state of Silicon Valleymdash;would stretch from the top of the San Francisco Bay shy;Area down through San Jose, stopping just before the verdant vineyards of the Central Coast. T adidas samba he idea is that the new states would be more efficient and governable. On July 15, the yeezy consortium backing the plan announced that it had submitted enough signatures to put the issue in front of voters in 2016 as part of the state salomon rsquo wildly democratic ballot initiative.That the plan has little chance of becoming a realitymdash;the Constitution requires the approval of the state assembly and Congressmdash;hardly matters. A sovereign Silicon Valley, which would be the richest state in the U.S., with annual per capita income of $63,288, is the apotheosis of tech hubris, in beta for decades but now ready to ship.Earlier this year, Draper told TIME:The strongest argument for Six Californias is that we are not well-represented. The |
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