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May 7, 2012
After Jane McGarry's DUI, Her Fans Want Her to Know: We Still Want You to Read Us Things
Longtime NBC 5 anchor Jane McGarry got popped for DUI over the weekend. She was stopped early Sunday morning in a 2007 Porsche, WFAA reported, after failing to use her signal on the tollway. She refused to take a breathalyzer and was booked into Dallas County jail, where they apparently let her fres ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2012
On St. Patty's Day Weekend, Get Ready To Not Refuse. Again.
Surprise! And by that we mean in a development that's no surprise at all to anyone, DPD just sent out a news release announcing that they'll be conducting another No Refusal DWI Initiative this weekend: This initiative will begin at 6:00 P.M., Friday, March 16, 2012 and will end at 6:00 A.M., Sunday ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
Irving-Based MADD Is Now Also Against Promoter Who Didn't Deliver NASCAR, Money
Google the phrase "SponsorMonsters," and the first thing that pops up is an item from the Mothers Against Drunk Driving website touting the John Carpenter Freeway-based organization's partnership with it. As in: "For 2011, Sponsor Monsters donated their lead sponsorship position to MADD and will ... More >>
Blogs
January 2, 2012
DPD Says It Arrested 31 Drunk Drivers Over the Long New Year's Holiday Weekend
Channel 11 had a piece last night about the breastfeeding mom and the party of 12 greeted by a New Year's Eve stray bullet coming through their bedroom ceiling. That footnote, as you'll no doubt recall, was part of DPD's crime-stats round-up yesterday. Today we get the DWI numbers, which are clos ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2011
Tarrant County to Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers. Dallas Isn't Ready to Go That Far.
If your New Year's weekend plans include a destination in Tarrant County and you have a nasty and terribly irresponsible habit of driving drunk, your boozebaggery and bad decisions can make you famous -- which is to say, infamous. The Tarrant County District Attorey's Office will publish the names o ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
Mavs' DeShawn Stevenson Arrested in Irving for Public Intoxication. He Gets a Free Pass, Right?
Interviewed Mavericks' guard DeShawn Stevenson on 105.3 The Fan yesterday afternoon about 2:45. He sounded happy. But not drunk. Listen for yourself. My first question: "Have you gotten over your Finals' hangover yet?" His answer: "Not really." In the wake of the Mavericks' NBA championsh ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Dallas PD's St. Paddy's Day Do's and Don'ts
From Angela Hunt's 2009 St. Patrick's Day Parade and Party slideshowIt would appear The Hot Topic today is about how hard one can get their drink on at the St. Patrick's Day Party and Parade along Greenville Avenue Saturday. The Dallas Police Department sends word that one need look no further th ... More >>
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January 2, 2011
DPD's New Year By the Numbers
We close out the holiday with a look at the Dallas Police Department's look at how Dallas spent the New Year's weekend, per a series of stats-filled missives sent out by Senior Corporal Kevin Janse. First, for those wondering whether the threat of a mandatory blood draw works, there were 27 DWI a ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2010
No Surprises: This Holiday Weekend, DPD to Make Drunk Drivers Offer They Can't Refuse
If it's a major holiday likely to involve a drink or two or 12, it's time for ... you guessed it: the Dallas Police Department's No-Refusal DWI Initiative! Let's not waste time recapping the what-the-whats. Release the release!The No-Refusal Initiative will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, December ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2010
DPD's DWI No-Refusal Initiative a No-Go?
On Thursday we gave you the no-surprise-there heads-up that, yet again, the Dallas Police Department would be drawing blood from long-weekend drunken drivers who refused to voluntarily turn over a blood or breath sample. Well, the numbers are in: DPD just sent word that 54 people were arrested fo ... More >>
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September 2, 2010
DPD Reminds, If You Drink and Drive This Long Holiday Weekend, You May Also Give Blood
Back in June 2009, then-Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle told then-Dallas Observer-er Kimberly Thorpe why he was (and, no doubt, remains) a big fan of the department's so-called No-Refusal DWI Initiative, which allows officers who pull over suspected drunk drivers to take and test two vials' wort ... More >>
Blogs
August 20, 2010
DA Craig Watkins: Punishment or Treatment For DWI Offenders is a "False Choice"
No doubt you caught at least some of The Dallas Morning News's recently wrapped three-part series on Texas's trouble with properly punishing drunken drivers. Probation instead of prison; back behind the wheel instead of behind bars. Says Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins in a missive ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2010
Today In Music News: Ollie Campesinos! Is A Quitter, Vince Neil Gets Busted And Method Man Pleads Guilty
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 29, 2010...It's not Ollie Campesinos!, it's the band.Vince Neil was arrested for DUI in Las Vegas... at least he didn't kill a best friend this time.Method Man pleads guilty to tax evasion, not very gangsta sir.
Blogs
June 3, 2010
For Those Who Think That DFW Car Crash Is a Fake, Here's the Police Report. And Mug Shot.
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Police DepartmentYasmine VillasanaThe first person I called yesterday after receiving that video in which the drunk driver of a Chevy Impala flew outta Dallas-Fort Worth Airport the wrong way was David Magaña, DFW's manager of public affairs. And he confir ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2010
Irony Alert: Tow Company Owner's Car Towed Off After DWI Wreck Saturday
Courtesy Barking DogsNow I know why I heard all those sirens early Saturday morning, then found a puddle of smashed glass at the Marsh and Merrill intersection not far from the house: DWI arrest! And, according to an excitable Avi Adelman, not just any DWI arrest but one apparently involving the ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2009
This Just In: Don't Drink and Drive
If your name is Newy Scruggs, Laura Dean-Mooney or Jesus H. Christ, you have permission to stop reading. The rest of you, I'd like you to think back to the last time you were driving while drunk, schnockered, intoxicated, tipsy, under the influence or, if you prefer, merely buzzed. Last week ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2009
There Will Be Blood: Come September, the DPD's No-Refusal Weekend Goes Full Time
Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle tells Unfair Park he expects to launch the so-called no-refusal program full-time in September after key legislation passed Sunday that makes obtaining a blood search warrant easier."That was the hold up," says Kunkle, who explains that the old law stipulated that on ... More >>
Blogs
May 29, 2009
Time's Running Out for State Legislature to Allow "No-Refusal" DWI Blood Drawa
Dallas Police VideoA woman arrested for DWI during a so-called No-Refusal Weekend has her blood drawn inside Lew Sterrett. In her left hand? A search warrant that orders her to give up her blood.The Texas Senate yesterday refused to send to Governor Rick Perry a bill that included an amendment that ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2009
This Weekend, Dallas Police to Make Drunk Drivers an Offer They Can't Refuse
Kimberly ThorpeMADD director Mary Kardell and Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle at this morning's press conferenceA word of caution before you head out for the long Memorial Day weekend: It's also No-Refusal Weekend. Which means? Well, if Dallas police pull suspect you're drinking and driving, you'll ... More >>
Blogs
May 8, 2009
Far as You Know, We Were Not Getting Hammered at the DWI Defense Project Confab
DWI attorney David BurrowsSeveral hundred defense attorneys are attending an all-day conference at the Belo Mansion today to learn about the next wave of DWI defense work: the blood alcohol test about which we wrote last month. In recent years, police departments across the state have moved away fro ... More >>
News
April 9, 2009
Athletes' feat? | Blowin' In The Wind | There Will Be Blood
DWI attorney David BurrowsSeveral hundred defense attorneys are attending an all-day conference at the Belo Mansion today to learn about the next wave of DWI defense work: the blood alcohol test about which we wrote last month. In recent years, police departments across the state have moved away fro ... More >>
News
April 2, 2009
Beating a DWI case may soon get a lot tougher
DWI attorney David BurrowsSeveral hundred defense attorneys are attending an all-day conference at the Belo Mansion today to learn about the next wave of DWI defense work: the blood alcohol test about which we wrote last month. In recent years, police departments across the state have moved away fro ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2009
The Needle and the Damage Drunk
On Monday the Texas Senate passed two bills related to drunken driving. The first would mandate statewide sobriety checkpoints; the second would allow police officers to draw blood from DWI suspects. The other sexually oriented newspaper in town focused on the sobriety checkpoints and mentioned that ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2008
Where's Wicko?
On Monday the Texas Senate passed two bills related to drunken driving. The first would mandate statewide sobriety checkpoints; the second would allow police officers to draw blood from DWI suspects. The other sexually oriented newspaper in town focused on the sobriety checkpoints and mentioned that ... More >>
News
December 13, 2007
Plano Cops Make Bitter Divorce Even Worse
On Monday the Texas Senate passed two bills related to drunken driving. The first would mandate statewide sobriety checkpoints; the second would allow police officers to draw blood from DWI suspects. The other sexually oriented newspaper in town focused on the sobriety checkpoints and mentioned that ... More >>
Blogs
August 30, 2007
Those DNA Lawsuits Just Keep on Coming
On Monday the Texas Senate passed two bills related to drunken driving. The first would mandate statewide sobriety checkpoints; the second would allow police officers to draw blood from DWI suspects. The other sexually oriented newspaper in town focused on the sobriety checkpoints and mentioned that ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2007
From Prison Break to, Well, Prison?
On Monday the Texas Senate passed two bills related to drunken driving. The first would mandate statewide sobriety checkpoints; the second would allow police officers to draw blood from DWI suspects. The other sexually oriented newspaper in town focused on the sobriety checkpoints and mentioned that ... More >>
News
May 3, 2007
Fudge Factor
On Monday the Texas Senate passed two bills related to drunken driving. The first would mandate statewide sobriety checkpoints; the second would allow police officers to draw blood from DWI suspects. The other sexually oriented newspaper in town focused on the sobriety checkpoints and mentioned that ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2007
Drink Up and Cover Up
On Monday the Texas Senate passed two bills related to drunken driving. The first would mandate statewide sobriety checkpoints; the second would allow police officers to draw blood from DWI suspects. The other sexually oriented newspaper in town focused on the sobriety checkpoints and mentioned that ... More >>
News
February 8, 2007
Mud Wrestling
Denton County's new district attorney challenged on his claims to be Mr. Clean
Blogs
February 1, 2007
Beverly Hills Cops Ready to Break Lane Garrison
Denton County's new district attorney challenged on his claims to be Mr. Clean
News
June 8, 2006
Time Heals No Wounds
A judge has to intervene on behalf of an inmate to save his infected leg
News
April 20, 2006
See you in Court
The TABC picks the wrong guy to ticket
Blogs
April 7, 2006
From the Highland Park Teen Affairs Desk
The TABC picks the wrong guy to ticket
News
July 21, 2005
Oklahoma Railroad
Accused of killing a cop's son, Emily Dowdy learns the hard way that in Oklahoma City justice isn't blind. It works for the prosecution.
News
December 11, 2003
Last Call
The career of Dallas sportswriter Jim Dent was skyrocketing, then booze and bad behavior caused a hard landing
News
August 7, 2003
MADD Again
With Texas No. 1 in DWI deaths, MADD gets down to business
News
December 7, 2000
Off the Track
DeLibero take a detour
News
September 14, 2000
The Untouchable
Complaints of racism, dirty politics, and other fishy business simply roll off Denton County's Teflon sheriff, Weldon Lucas
News
March 4, 1999
The Boy Scout, the hustler, and the porn queen
Former Dallas police officer and onetime X-rated movie star Jordan Lee finds herself hunted by two ex-cops who say she did them wrong
News
January 14, 1999
Letters
Former Dallas police officer and onetime X-rated movie star Jordan Lee finds herself hunted by two ex-cops who say she did them wrong
News
January 23, 1997
Fight or flight?
Denton man claims he's in jail because attorney Brian Loncar failed to show up in court
News
August 8, 1996
Deadbeat update
Vary founders Mica England and Ceslie Armstrong are wanted women. Literally.
News
March 21, 1996
BeloWatch
Vary founders Mica England and Ceslie Armstrong are wanted women. Literally.
News
August 24, 1995
Who's afraid of Robert rose?
At the Dallas County Courthouse, everybody. David Pasztor explains why

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