Drunk Driving

Yes, You Can Get Thrown in Jail For Drunk Driving a Golf Cart at Texas Motor Speedway

Officer Jennifer Bell and Corporal D.J. Lusty remember the night of April 9, 2011 quite clearly. The Fort Worth cops were working off-duty traffic jobs at Texas Motor Speedway following the Samsung Mobile 500 when Bell spotted a golf cart driving on the grass. She watched as the cart laden with thre ... More >>

Fifty-Six Year Old Community College Student and Republican Precinct Chair Wants a White Student Union at Tarrant County College

Richard Railey is definitely not an idiotic, racist troll. Nope, he's just your average 56-year-old community college student, pursuing an associates degree in IT security while trying to form a White Student Union at Tarrant County College. Burnt Orange Report wrote about Railey's quest this morni ... More >>

Jury Awards $10.5 Mil to Family of Woman Crushed by Monster Truck at Spearmint Rhino

In the early morning hours of March 17, 2011, 23-year-old Kasey McKenzie was walking through the parking lot of Spearmint Rhino when she was struck and killed by a Ford F-250 with enormous wheels and a monster lift kit as it left a parking space. The driver, 27-year-old Eric Crutchfield, had spent ... More >>

The Ticket's Sean Bass and His Sobering Stance on Driving Drunk

After surviving the drunken-driving accident that killed his girlfriend, a local sports-talker takes his pain on the air.

Cowboys Tackle Jay Ratliff Was Arrested For DWI Yesterday After Crashing His Truck

Just after midnight on Tuesday, Cowboys nose tackle Jay Ratliff was driving his Ford pickup along State Highway 114 in Grapevine when police say he drunkenly crashed into an 18-wheeler, then a highway barrier. No one was injured. Ratliff, 31, refused a Breathalyzer test before bonding out of the Gr ... More >>

Dallas Has One of Nation's Highest Rates of Drunken Driving Deaths

The best way to prevent drunken driving deaths, as we were repeatedly reminded in the wake of Jerry Brown's death last month, is for drunk people to stop driving. The obvious problem is that the people who are deciding whether to drive are drunk and, while per capita drunken driving deaths in the U ... More >>

Cowboy Jerry Brown Was Sober When He Died in a Car Driven by His Drunk Teammate

The Associated Press is reporting that Jerry Brown, the Cowboys practice player who died in a drunk-driving accident last month, was sober at the time of the crash. Brown's teammate, Josh Brent, had a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit when the car he was driving crashed. The two had been par ... More >>

TCU Researchers Say Thieves Have Hearts, Are More Likely to Steal from Lawbreakers

A while back, Patrick Kinkade, the chair of TCU's criminal justice department, drove a filthy Ford Explorer to several full-service car washes in Fort Worth. Each time, he left behind a large amount of loose change in plain view. Often, about a third of the time, some of the money would be missing. ... More >>

Screwing Up is What Kids Do, So Spare TCU QB Casey Pachall Your Self-Righteous Hypocrisy

Hey, by any chance did you catch Dale Hansen last night on Channel 8 talking about that poor kid at TCU who got kicked off the football team for misbehavior? Man, I'm telling you: sometimes Hansen is my mullah. He was talking about somebody who had written him saying we should pass a law that any k ... More >>

Waxahachie Man Gets Life Sentence For Driving Drunk. Again.

In 1997, Blas Hernandez was convicted of drunk driving in Ellis County. It was his third DWI, making it a felony and, since he had two previous convictions for assaulting a public servant, they threw the book at him: Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison. Fast-forward to 2012. Hernandez, who wa ... More >>

Naked Randy Travis Arrested in Grayson County

It wasn't long ago that we found country singer Randy Travis drinking wine in front of the First Baptist Church in Sanger. But the man has topped himself. Pretty much everyone is now reporting that Travis walked naked into a Grayson County convenience store to buy cigarettes last night, crashed his ... More >>

Jane McGarry Out at NBC 5 After Pleading Guilty To Drunk Driving

NBC 5 anchor Jane McGarry is gone effective today, the station announced in a statement released a while ago. Long-time NBC 5 news anchor Jane McGarry announced that she will leave effective today, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Tom Ehlmann, NBC 5 president and general manager said, "We support Jane's de ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 Villasana​The 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Athletes' feat? | Blowin' In The Wind | There Will Be Blood

Beating a DWI case may soon get a lot tougher

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 >>

Plano Cops Make Bitter Divorce Even Worse

From Prison Break to, Well, Prison?

Drink Up and Cover Up

Mud Wrestling

Denton County's new district attorney challenged on his claims to be Mr. Clean

Beverly Hills Cops Ready to Break Lane Garrison

Time Heals No Wounds

A judge has to intervene on behalf of an inmate to save his infected leg

From the Highland Park Teen Affairs Desk

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.

Last Call

The career of Dallas sportswriter Jim Dent was skyrocketing, then booze and bad behavior caused a hard landing

MADD Again

With Texas No. 1 in DWI deaths, MADD gets down to business

Off the Track

DeLibero take a detour

The Untouchable

Complaints of racism, dirty politics, and other fishy business simply roll off Denton County's Teflon sheriff, Weldon Lucas

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

Letters

Fight or flight?

Denton man claims he's in jail because attorney Brian Loncar failed to show up in court

Deadbeat update

Vary founders Mica England and Ceslie Armstrong are wanted women. Literally.

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