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 ...

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 ...

In January, police in Alabama arrested a Florida man (yeah, that guy) for allegedly transporting 81 gallons of moonshine. He ...

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The Durham Museum's "River City History Tours" are back. One of the newer tours is "Last Call for Alcohol: Omaha's Bootlegging History."Back when Prohibition began in 1919, Omaha had been dry for two ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is planning to crack down on bootlegging this fall. And that will include arresting people like Texas Tech student Nolan Newsom, who charged $8 for people to ...

Spokane had achieved its goal of becoming a major “financial center,” but not of the kind to brag about. Spokane was the “main market and financial center of a liquor-smuggling and bootlegging traffic ...