In late October, a woman named Kandice Hutchison was killed in a car crash on W. Airport Freeway in Euless, when her 2004 Nissan 350Z hit a center median, flipped onto the concrete barrier "and slid along the top of it until the car slammed into
a bridge support and caught on fire," reported yesterday's Star-Telegram. Hutchison was killed on the scene, and Euless police are now considering pursuing street-racing charges against a man also involved in the incident.But what ups the morbid factor i
Not every day you get a press release about an law firm being sentenced in federal court. But such a missive just arrived in the Unfair Park in-box courtesy the U.S. Attorney's Office concerning yesterday's sentencing of Trey Allen, P.C., the Firm Formerly Known as The Law Office of John H. Allen, III, P.C.In September, it admitted in court that, well, see, yeah, it staged a few car accidents in order to defraud insurance companies -- did it for, oh, seven years, matter of fact. There were also
I told the sad saga of former Dallas Cowboy Dwayne Goodrich in an Observer cover story back in December. Something tells me Jeremy Schaap is going to tell it even better tonight.
To say I "consulted" ESPN E:60 is probably a little strong, but I did sit down with Schaap and his producer at the Bob's Steak & Chop and House on Lemmon in February to eat some meat and chew the fat over the compelling story. Tonight on ESPN's investigative show at 6 Schaap will provide his prison interview wi
"He was a happy-go-lucky guy with a great work ethic." (Ed Murph, owner of Norma's Cafe, on Lonnie Ray Ellis, one of his kitchen staff. Ellis died last week in an auto accident with a DART bus. Norma's staff placed a donation jar at the counter to raise enough money for Ellis to be buried by his mother's grave in Louisiana. As quoted by the Dallas Morning News.)
Allow me to quote from the source material: "In 2000, five percent (5%) of all drivers observed on Dallas area highways were using a handheld cell phone during the afternoon peak period." So notes Page 145 of a 266-page National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study completed in 2003 but made available only today, via the Center for Auto Safety, which has fought for the release of the report for years and which provided a copy to The New York Times.That bit about Dallas's drivers isn't par
