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Ninth DUI Arrest, No License, No Interlock: Nothing in the SUV Was Built to Stop Him
Police found a gray SUV blocking a Waukegan street at 1:21 a.m. The driver, prosecutors say, had eight prior DUI arrests and no license, and no ignition interlock could reach the car.
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An AI Avatar Spoke for a Road-Rage Victim at Sentencing. Arizona Just Threw Out the 10.5-Year Term.
Arizona’s appeals court kept Gabriel Horcasitas’s manslaughter conviction but vacated his sentence because the judge relied on an AI rendering of the man he shot. The line it drew between recorded video and generated video will follow road-rage cases.
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USPS Is Turning Mail Trucks Into Road Scanners With Nextbase Dash Cams
The most thorough road surveyor in America isn’t a state DOT inspection van or a mapping car. It’s the right-hand-drive box that rolls past your curb six days a week, whether your street deserves the visit or not. The U.S. Postal Service has done the same math. A Sept. 18 letter from USPS Labor Relations…
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Philadelphia’s Speed Cameras Billed a Dallas Man for a Mercedes. The Plate Came Off His Buick in 2022.
A Texas plate number canceled in 2022 turned up on a dark Mercedes in Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania’s camera law sent the bill to a Dallas man who says he hasn’t been there in 40 years.
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A Stolen Identity Financed the Corvette. A Second One Wrote the Down Payment Check.
Prosecutors say a Queens man financed a $114,000 Corvette in one stolen name and paid the down payment with a forged check in another. A co-conspirator was arrested in a Maserati registered to the same victim he later used to buy a Porsche.
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Wrecked Rolls-Royce Phantom V Lands Iowa Lawyer in Federal Prison
Picture a 1961 Rolls-Royce Phantom V with its front end smashed in, unable to run, sitting at a farm shop where a tow truck left it. Then picture that car listed on a nursing-home benefits application as a $194,000 family vehicle. A federal judge in Iowa didn’t find it convincing either. Timothy Mark Anderson, 67,…
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Texas Restoration Shop Owner Got 60 Years for Theft. His Appeal Says 28 Customers Had Contract Disputes.
Richard Finley’s 60-year theft sentence in Galveston County, Texas, rests on a law that adds many customers’ losses into one felony. His appeal targets that total.
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One Stolen-Car Stop, Two Las Vegas Police Investigations: One for the Officer’s Gun, One for the Car
LVMPD says the only shot fired during a Sept. 25 stolen-car stop was an officer’s negligent discharge. Its deadly-force team is investigating the car.
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The Milwaukee ‘Street Takeover’ Had a Facebook Schedule, a Street Address and a Lot Number
Deputies rushed to a reported street takeover at Milwaukee’s McKinley Marina. It was a car meet that had posted its date, hours and parking lot months ahead.
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California’s 3-Day Used Car Return Law: Fees, Limits and Loopholes Explained
California used-car buyers now get something the finance office can’t talk them out of: three days to give the car back. SB 766, the California Combating Auto Retail Scams (CARS) Act, was signed October 6, 2025, and took effect Thursday, October 1. Its author, Sen. Ben Allen, calls the return period a first in the…
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Yes, the Hellcat Outran the Cops. Then It Ran Out of Gas.
An old story, but people still can’t let this one go: a stolen Hellcat lost Houston police and their helicopter, then ran out of gas two counties away.
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Banning Diesel Exports Could Raise Gas Prices. Trump Says So Himself.
A refinery makes up to 1.8 gallons of gasoline for every gallon of diesel. That is why an export ban aimed at $6.50 diesel could land on gas drivers first.
