Md. Delegate Who Called for DUI Plates Charged

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) -- A Maryland state delegate who called for "DUI" license plates that would be issued to people convicted more than once of drunken driving has been charged with driving under the influence himself. A Montgomery County police report says an officer cited Herman Taylor Jr. after finding him sleeping with his SUV idling at a 7-Eleven on New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring on May 1. The report says the officer saw Taylor pull into the parking lot, then rest his head on the back of his seat. The officer had to shake Taylor to wake him up and the report says the officer smelled alcohol. A trial for Taylor, a Montgomery County Democrat, is scheduled for Oct. 24