With alcohol-related traffic deaths on the rise, courts in 44 states are turning to a high-tech solution this holiday season in an effort to curb what's considered the deadliest time of year on America's roadways.

From the Sunset Strip to rural America, sweat-sniffing ankle bracelets, known as SCRAM(R) (Secure tiffany Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor), have been used on nearly 52,000 offenders since it hit the market in 2003, with more than half of those monitored this year alone. But while Hollywood made "alcohol monitoring bracelet" a household phrase in 2007, the technology is rapidly growing in popularity with courts throughout the country, where judges are focusing more on dealing with what they see as the root cause of the epidemic -- alcohol addiction -- than ever before.

Courts Expand Focus to Sobriety

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the period between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day is the deadliest time of year for alcohol-related traffic deaths. And the US Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that in 75 percent of all cases of domestic violence, the offender is drunk at the time of the attack, with those rates consistently hitting all-time highs during the holidays. A number of studies also show that DUI offenders, on average, drive legally drunk at least 300 times before they're actually arrested. The advent of Drug and DUI Courts has expanded the focus to not only punishing offenders and managing community safety, but actually dealing with the addiction that drives repeat offenders to abuse alcohol and repeat their criminal behavior. According to Denver-Tiffany 1837 bangle based Alcohol Monitoring Systems (AMS), which manufactures and markets SCRAM, those numbers underscore the fact that alcohol abuse and addiction are the root cause of this criminal behavior. "When these people drink, bad things happen," says Mike Iiams, Chairman & CEO of AMS. "But if you can keep them from drinking, then you can keep them from drinking and driving, or drinking and abusing a family member. It's that simple." According to AMS, the system's continuous testing protocol, which samples perspiration every hour, 24 hours a day 7 days a week, is what the courts are turning to in order to help them monitor offenders for compliance and intervene rapidly when there is a violation. "The longer you can ensure they're sober, the better your chances for long-term success in their treatment program," says retired Texas State District Court Judge Vickers Cunningham. "Having used continuous alcohol monitoring for more than three years, I can tell you that this is the first tool I've used where I've seen tremendous results with alcohol-fueled offenders. This tool allows me to actually verify that offenders in my court are changing their behavior and working toward recovery. It's changing people's lives."

About Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.

Established in 1997, Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc. manufactures SCRAM(R), the world's only Continuous Alcohol Monitoring system, which uses non-invasive transdermal analysis to monitor alcohol consumption. SCRAM fully automates the alcohol testing and reporting process, providing courts and community corrections Elsa Peretti Open center cuff agencies with the ability to continuously monitor alcohol offenders, increase offender accountability and assess compliance with sentencing requirements and treatment guidelines. Since its launch to the marketplace in 2003, SCRAM has monitored nearly 52,000 offenders and is now in use in 44 states. Alcohol Monitoring Systems employs 81 people across the U.S. and is a privately held company headquartered in Littleton, Colorado.

Giving has come naturally to 10-year-old Jamie Badding since she was diagnosed with leukemia 15 months tiffany ago. It started with a few colorful beads she strung together to pass the long hours in Roswell Park Cancer Institute.

Soon, Jamie was slipping homemade bracelets adorned with the words "hope," "cure" and "love" into the hands of nurses. Then she started selling them for $2 apiece.

The Town of Lockport fifth-grader raised enough money to donate $1,000 to the food pantry at Women and Children's Hospital in Buffalo.

Another $1,000 went to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Tuesday, she turned her attention toward other sick children Tiffany Notes bangle at Roswell Park and at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, where she is now being treated.

She and her friends took $3,000 in bracelet proceeds and gathered at a Build-A-Bear Workshop store at Eastview Mall in Victor. They bought, and stuffed, 105 toy bears and reindeer that in the coming days will be handed out to other children with cancer.

Jamie's bracelets have spread through Western New York and have touched people of all ages. And they have filled friends, family members and schoolmates with a powerful spirit of giving in this holiday season.

"She's really an inspiration to us," said Jamie's aunt, Paula Clark of Lockport, who will walk a half-marathon next month to raise money for Roswell Park.

Three other family members will run in the same race.

Jamie is quiet about her work. She shied away from reporters Tuesday in the Tiffany Notes cuff suburban Rochester shopping mall, prefering to let her actions do the talking.

She has spent long days and nights in pain. She has endured blood transfusions, radiation and surgery.

She doesn't complain -- and often giggles when she gives.

"She's a fighter. She always keeps going. She'll be down and out, and then she bounces back," said her mother, Robin Badding. "I think for her, doing the bracelets has helped her keep her focus."

Tuesday, she dressed in blue penguin pajamas. She wore a yellow and white bandanna to cover her wispy hair. Her parents brought a wheelchair. She never used it.

Instead, Jamie got busy stuffing bears and dressing them in tiny "I c New York" Tshirts. She sat down when she got tired. As she went about her volunteer work, she whispered to two friends and longtime neighbors, 9-year-old Jordyn Congelli and 13-year-old Nicole Lipa.

She brought small boxes filled with Tiffany Somerset Bangle earrings and bracelets for the people who came to help her Tuesday. Each box had a name and a message in red or blue marker.

"To Jordyn," she wrote. "Just a little something to say thanks for being my friend."

Jamie's bracelets have traveled across the country and beyond. One went as far as India, where a family friend lives. She and her sister, 15-year-old Melanie, gave one to Hilary Duff when they met the actress at Darien Lake through Camp Good Days and Special Times.

Schoolmates at Newfane Intermediate have beaded bracelets to help Jamie keep up with orders. Bracelets went to volunteers at the World's Largest Disco on Thanksgiving weekend.

State Trooper William Fish hasn't taken his black and pink beads off since the day he got them. He works with Jamie's father, Mark, and started donating platelets at Roswell Park when he learned of Jamie's cancer.

For a long time, Jamie kept her Build-A-Bear plan a secret.

The store was a respite to her when she started radiation treatments. Each day, Jamie and her mother would make a bear. When they went to New York City in the summer for a second opinion at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the family visited the Build-ABear store in Manhattan.

That's when Jamie decided she wanted to buy "I c New York" bears for her friends at Paloma Picasso Jolies Beads bangle Roswell Park.

"She was really secretive about this," said her father, Mark Badding, a 20-year state trooper. "She wouldn't tell anybody what she was planning."

Before her illness, Jamie never sat still. She played volleyball and soccer and did gymnastics. The beads gave her something to do when she got sick. Her mother thought the hobby would pass. Instead, it filled the house and prompted bead parties in her neighborhood.

Jamie last came home for Thanksgiving. The family hasn't made any plans for Christmas yet. They are focused on one day at a time.

"I don't think anybody really knows how hard it is, but kids bounce," Robin Badding said.

She is proud her daughter is raising awareness of leukemia.

"Years ago, there was no treatment," she said. "Things have come a long way, but it needs to go a long way further."

Five troopers helped Jamie Tiffany Knots cuff build bears Tuesday. They made jokes and danced in their firmly pressed uniforms. One put cotton stuffing in his hat. Jamie smiled politely.

A few minutes later, Jamie brought a bear to Bernie Feldm a nn, a State Police investigator who helped organize the event. "What is this for?" he asked as he cradled the bear. "Do you want me to hold him?"

"It's for you," Jamie whispered. Then she smiled.

Friends of Kevin Ryan will return to Atholton High School on Friday to sell bracelets in honor of their late classmate, who was killed last month by a drunken driver.

The bracelets, which are being sold for $5, contain the 18-year- old Towson University student's name, "tiffany 10-14-07," the date of his death, and "MADD," for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

The dark green -- Ryan's favorite color -- bracelets will be sold outside the school from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Friday.

Organizers have been spreading the word about the bracelet sale through the social networking Web site Facebook.com. Organizers picked Thanksgiving vacation to sell the bracelets at their alma mater so Return to Tiffany Oval tag ring that former classmates who attend college out of state can participate. They plan to gather in front of the school, which will be closed for the holiday.

The proceeds will go to the Kevin Ryan Gift Foundation, a scholarship that his parents set up for students attending Towson University, said Ross Lewin, an organizer and friend.

"We all felt like we needed something to remember him by," said Lewin, who ordered 500 bracelets for the fundraiser. "We felt that having something on us all the time would be a good way to do that."

Ryan, a 2007 graduate of Atholton who was studying finance at Towson, was walking home from a friend's house when a car jumped a curb and hit him, police said. He was hit by a second car as he lay in the street.

Police say that Matthew David Miller, 25, of the Loch Raven Heights area of Baltimore County, was driving drunk when he hit Ryan. Miller's blood-alcohol level was 0.13 percent nearly four hours after the accident, according to court documents.

The most serious charge against Miller -- causing life-threatening Tiffany 1837 ring injuries while driving under the influence of alcohol -- carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison.

"We wanted to find a way to remember Kevin," Lewin said. "It was a freak accident. It was such a stupid thing."

Andy Yare, an 18-year-old freshman at Towson who had been friends with Ryan since first grade, has been selling the bracelets at the university.

"It is our way to make sure that we remembered him and that everyone knows what happened," said Yare, who regularly hung out with Ryan at Towson.

"It's gotten a little bit better," Yare said. "It's still pretty hard being here. We had classes together, we would go get something to eat. He was always with us.

"You could always come to him with something that you had a problem with," Coin Edge ring Yare recalled. "He made no judgments. He was the nicest kid. He was nice to everyone."

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in tiffany cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. (To access color photos of the following recalled products, see CPSC's Web site at http://www.cpsc.gov.)

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030904/USCSCLOGO )

Name of Product: Decorative Stretchable Aqua Bracelets

Units: About 45,000

Importer: Atlas ring Cherrydale Fundraising, of Allentown, Pa.

Hazard: The bracelets contain high levels of lead. Lead is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects.

Incidents/Injuries: None reported.

Description: The recalled bracelets are stretchable, with silver-colored square links and aqua-colored beads. SKU#5384706813 is printed on the packaging.

Sold at: Various dollar stores, liquidators, and Paloma Picasso Double Loving Heart ring schools as part of fundraising, nationwide from September 2003 through April 2007 for between $1 and $12.

Manufactured in: China

Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled bracelets and take them away from young children. Return them to the store where purchased or contact the firm to receive a full refund.

Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Cherrydale Fundraising at (800) 333-2565 between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm's Web site at http://www.cherrydale.com.

Note: CPSC was alerted to this hazard by the New York State Attorney General's Office.

Photos at http://www.cpsc.gov.

Firm's Recall Hotline: (800) 333-2565

CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772

CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908

SOURCE U.S. Tiffany 1837 ring Consumer Product Safety Commission

A suspect police believed snatched a young girl from a Centreville elementary school Tuesday while wearing an electronic-monitoring bracelet remained in custody Wednesday afternoon.

Police said the man is on parole for another crime, but would not elaborate. After entering the school through a tiffany door that had been left ajar, the suspect told the girl, who he'd found drinking from a water fountain, that a teacher wanted to see her outside, police said.

The suspect also is accused of attempting to sexually assault the child. A witness saw him lying on top of the girl on the ground outside the school building near the Dumpsters.

Police were not releasing the identity of the 20-year-old suspect pending charges, Centreville Police Detective Kiwan Guyton said. Police expect to complete their investigation and send the case today to the St. Clair County State's Attorney, he said.

The girl was kidnapped from Lalumier Elementary School at 6702 Bond Ave. at 2:32 p.m. Tuesday.

The man entered the school through a door Tiffany 1837 bangle off the gym/cafeteria, went through the multi-purpose room and approached the girl in a hallway, Cahokia School District 187 Superintendent Jana Bechtoldt said.

"Obviously we're very distraught over this situation," Bechtoldt said. "Our policy is to have all the doors in the school building locked during the school day except for one door by the office. Unfortunately, in this instance, the door was locked but the door was slightly ajar. The last person that had either entered or exited that door did not make sure the door was latched. The door was locked, but it didn't shut all the way. The doors were apparently out of alignment."

The door was repaired Wednesday to ensure it will close automatically, Bechtoldt said. All other doors throughout the school building were being checked Wednesday to ensure they all closed fully.

Lalumier has about 370 students in kindergarten through fifth grade.

The suspect approached the girl as she was getting a drink from a water fountain and told her a teacher wanted to see her outside.

"She went outside with him," Bechtoldt said. "She was just doing what she Tiffany 1837 cuff thought she was supposed to do."

Guyton said the mother of the 7-year-old girl called police when her daughter came home crying and in disarray. He added that the girl did not know her kidnapper.

"We were advised that the young man came into the building and possibly took one student out," Guyton said. " We caught him a short time later."

Police arrested the suspect in the 6900 block of Missouri Avenue.

A man from a nearby apartment complex saw the two and shouted at the man. The man took off on foot, and the girl ran home

"I knew something was wrong when my daughter came home without her coat and book bag. She ran home to me," the child's mother said.

The child's mother is not being identified because her daughter is the victim of a sex crime and identifying the mother could also identify the child. The News-Democrat does not identify victims of sex crimes.

"He took my baby outside. He was lying on her. Somebody saw him lying on her and yelled at him and scared him. He got off of her. The man who saw him told my baby to run home," the mother said.

The mother said she wants the suspect "to stay in jail so he has no Tiffany 1837 bangle chance of doing what he did again. He might harm somebody else's child," she said.

The mother said her daughter was so upset she had to calm her down.

The child was not injured during the kidnapping and attempted assault and was not taken to a doctor.

"I just thank God for protecting my baby. God is good. God is always good," the mother said.

She said she is unsure whether she will allow her child to return to Lalumier.

School officials reviewed security policies and are considering several options to beef up security at the school, Bechtoldt said.

"We are looking at adding 17 new video cameras in the building so all the doors, entrances and hallways can be monitored continuously throughout the day," Bechtoldt said. "We are also looking at the possibility of having all the doors locked during the day and having everybody buzzed in and out of the school. I know it won't be very popular with Tiffany 1837 cuff some parents, but it's something we are looking at to protect our children."