ARMONK, N.Y. (AP) - A judge in New York has refused to dismiss a drugged-driving case against Kerry Kennedy.

In a ruling filed before a Tuesday court session in the case, the judge wrote that Kennedy "cut a wide swath of danger and risk."

Kennedy is the daughter of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the ex-wife of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. She was arrested in July after her Lexus swerved into a tractor-trailer near her home north of New York City.

Police said she failed sobriety tests.

A small amount of a sleeping drug was found in Kennedy's blood. She said she believes she accidentally took a sleeping pill that morning instead of thyroid medication.

Prosecutors had argued that dropping the charge would feed the perception that famous people are treated differently.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Unusual circumstances have left federal prosecutors pursuing vandalism charges against a U.S. government worker accused of killing a Zimbabwe man in an alleged drunken driving collision.

Much of the case against Andrew Pastirik is shrouded in secrecy at a federal courthouse in northern Virginia. Court documents show the only charge filed against Pastirik in the 2008 death is one of "malicious mischief," or vandalism, for wrecking a U.S. government-owned Toyota Land Cruiser he was driving.

Zimbabwe's ambassador to the U.S. says Zimbabwean authorities may have been prevented from bringing charges there because of diplomatic immunity.

The U.S. State Department declined to say whether it requested diplomatic immunity on Pastirik's behalf.

FREEMANSBURG, Pa. (AP) - A military burial is scheduled in eastern Pennsylvania for a World War II soldier whose remains were recovered after more than 65 years.

The Express-Times reports William Yawney was a 23-year-old Army private when he was killed on Saipan in July 1944, as Allied forces were trying to secure the island.The family initially received a letter saying he had been buried at a military cemetery in Saipan, but the Department of Defense later said no grave for Yawney was found. The department said an archaeological company working in Saipan uncovered remains in 2011 that were confirmed to be Yawney's.

Now, the family has scheduled a full military burial for 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Cemetery in Northampton.