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motorists are driving drunk or high.
• U.S. transportation officials call the National Roadside Survey of Alcohol and Drugged Driving, which has been conducted five times since 1973, a vital tool for monitoring the safety of America's roadways. But some motorists and civil liberties advocates contend the government's methods are intrusive and even unconstitutional. Some police departments have refused to partner on the survey or regretted their decision to do so in the wake of public outcry, while in Tennessee, legislation that would ban law enforcement from helping out on the survey unanimously cleared the state Senate last month.
• In the southeastern Pennsylvania city of Reading, Nieves is angered over what he views as an abuse of power.
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• LAUREL, Miss. (AP) -- The second floor of an activity center at a rural church in southern Mississippi collapsed during an evening youth service, sending about 70 people tumbling and injuring at least 15 of them, authorities said.
• None of the injuries appeared life-threatening though a 16-year-old girl was taken to a hospital in Hattiesburg with a possible head injury after the floor collapse Wednesday evening, authorities said. The hospital told The Associated Press it had no information to release on the girl's condition early Thursday.
• Pastor Tommy Davis at Freedom Baptist Church in Myrick told The Chronicle in Laurel ( http://bit.ly/Nd2mcxhttp://bit.ly/Nd2mcx ) that the floor at the activity center collapsed as dozens of youth were gathered for a Wednesday evening gathering of worship.
• "In the middle of the student service, the floor -- which is a second-story floor -- gave way, causing about 70 students to fall," Davis said. "But it's got to be said that no one was seriously injured, no one was trapped. God's hand was certainly taking care of the kids who were in that building."
• Spokeswoman Linda Gavin at the South Central Regional Medical Center, said at least 15 young people were treated there and all were later released.
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