Fewer Russians picked up a bottle of alcohol during several time periods in the last 40 years and researchers say in a study published Wednesday this may have added up to an increase in life expectancy.
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Russia might still have a reputation as a nation of hard drinkers, but a report by the World Health Organization published Tuesday showed alcohol consumption has dropped by 43 percent since 2003.
Read moreKing County sheriff’s officer shot a teenager to death with eight bullets in a “recklessly supervised and unconstitutionally executed ‘sting’ operation to seize a different teenager,” suspected of selling alcohol to minors, the parents of the late MiChance Dunlap-Gittens say in federal court.
Read moreMaking wine in the Nordic countries is far from the glamour associated with Europe’s famed wine chateaux: here the sun is fickle, the season is short and diehard aficionados work up more sweat than wine but climate change is helping boost harvests.
Read moreThe state of Missouri argued Thursday before the Eighth Circuit that it has a public interest in preserving a law barring the advertising of alcohol at discounted rates because such ads could encourage underage drinking.
Read moreAmid the rolling green expanse of France’s prestigious Burgundy wine lands there is an unusual sight: shiny police helmets bobbing between rows of vines.
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A German court said in a ruling published Monday that hangovers are an “illness,” in a timely judgement days after the annual Oktoberfest beer festival began in Munich.
Read moreSouth Dakota is allowed to tax the renovation of a Native American casino by a nontribal contractor, a divided Eighth Circuit panel ruled Friday.
Read moreGlobal beer giant Anheuser-Busch must face claims it unlawfully appropriated the brand and environmentalist identity of outdoor clothier Patagonia when it produced a beer by the same name, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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Scientists at King’s College London have found that red wine drinkers have a greater diversity of bacteria in their digestive tracts, a marker of gastrointestinal wellbeing, than those who drink other alcohol.
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Research published Thursday may finally answer the important question of how climate change is expected to disrupt the wine market.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss claims from a man whom police in Hobbs, New Mexico, shot in a bar parking lot, as police allegedly knew and were indifferent to the bar’s serving minors and people who were too drunk to be served, creating a public nuisance.
Read moreFrench winegrowers are on tenterhooks as they wait to see whether Donald Trump will follow through with his repeated threats to raise tariffs on French wine in retaliation for the new GAFA tax.
Read moreA former Virginia Beach magistrate brought a federal complaint this weekend detailing what she describes as rampant substance abuse and sexual misconduct among court staff.
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Harvard scientists said Wednesday that an antioxidant-like compound found in red wine could help astronauts preserve muscle mass and strength during long-term missions such as the exploration of Mars.
Read moreSiding with four homeless men whom Virginia has repeatedly jailed for alcohol consumption, the en banc Fourth Circuit struck down Virginia’s “habitual drunkard” law Tuesday as unconstitutional.
Read moreA fire destroyed a massive Jim Beam warehouse filled with about 45,000 barrels of bourbon, sending flames shooting into the night sky and generating so much heat that firetruck lights melted, authorities said Wednesday.
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