Crime, Courts, Calamity

BANGKOK — A taxi driver with a record for having threatened passengers with a knife faces faces charges Wednesday after she was filmed raving at a family in her taxi before kicking them to the curb.

CHIANG RAI — Just when the northern region was enduring a wave of summer heat, a massive electrical failure occurred Tuesday morning, affecting four provinces including Thailand’s second largest city.

BANGKOK — Lowering the permitted blood alcohol limit in young drivers will help prevent accidents, a road safety organization said Wednesday of the cabinet’s endorsement to changing the law.

BANGKOK — The wealthy Red Bull scion accused of killing a policeman in a hit-and-run incident nearly five years ago is scheduled to meet with prosecutors again on Thursday, but police said there’s little they can do if he doesn’t show up, despite the fact that he seems to be living openly in Bangkok and traveling in and out of the country.

BANGKOK — Police said Tuesday they are looking for more animal traffickers after a woman was arrested for possessing and selling slow lorises from her eastern Bangkok home.

BANGKOK — The Ferrari driver who allegedly slammed into a motorcycle cop, dragged him along the road and then sped away from the mangled body took just hours to find, as investigators followed a drip, drip, drip trail of brake fluid up a street, down an alley, and into the gated estate of one of Thailand's richest families.

LAMPANG — A doctor who police in northern Thailand said Monday has confessed to sexually assaulting a nurse in the workplace is still working at another hospital.

KOH TAO — Koh Tao police said on Monday they were no longer searching for a missing Russian tourist after finding no sign of her.

BANGKOK — Suicide is not suspected in the mysterious deaths of a man and a woman at a gas station in southeastern Bangkok, police said Monday.

KORAT — A Scottish Muay Thai fighter died of suspected heatstroke Sunday morning in Korat while trying to lose weight before an upcoming fight.