Cartel Recruits Buy the Damage Waiver, Then Leave the Key. California Lets Rental Fleets Void It, and They Still Eat the Loss
Straw renters recruited online buy the damage waiver and leave the key for a driver headed to Mexico. California lets…
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One Burning EV at a Fort Worth Cadillac Dealer Spread to at Least Seven More, Then Kept Firefighters There for 17 Hours, 33 Minutes
Fort Worth firefighters were sent to Frank Kent Cadillac, in the 3500 block of West...
Richmond Quit Flock Because Henrico Quit Flock. Now Flock Is Cutting About 270 Jobs.
Flock plans to cut about 270 jobs as Henrico, Richmond, Harris County and Texas cities switch its plate cameras off.…
Tesla’s Robotaxis Are Accused of Speeding Through School Zones. Texas Already Knows Whose Name Goes on the Ticket: Tesla’s
NHTSA is weighing a defect petition on about 1,000 Tesla Robotaxis accused of speeding in active school zones. With no…
Eight Cars, Including Three Camaros and a Trans Am, Fell Off the Feds’ List in a Texas Insurance Fraud Case
DOJ said in July it had seized 22 vehicles from Texas insurance broker Clayton Iley. The October forfeiture order covers…
El Paso Tax Office Deputy Accused of Cooking 380-Plus Vehicle Records So Cars Could Skip Inspection
An El Paso tax office deputy who worked at an authorized contract office was arrested...
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…
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…
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,…
Watch: Florida Driver Tossed More Than $6,000 From a GMC Sierra in a Pearland, Texas Chase, Then Got Charged With Tampering
Pearland, Texas police say a Florida man threw more than $6,000 from a GMC Sierra during a chase. The tampering…
Driver Crashes Into Dallas Repair Shop, Gets Pulled From Burning Car, Leaves Before Police Arrive — Now Shop Says Someone Took the Plates
A driver was pulled from a burning car after crashing into Wayne Motors in Far North Dallas, then left before…
Flock Can Build the Cameras. It Can’t Build the Roadside.
Florida and Texas did not ban plate-reading cameras. They pulled the roadside permits and public money Flock depends on, and…
Dallas Turned Its Garbage Trucks Into A Surveillance Fleet, And The Real Trick Was Doing It For Almost Nothing
Dallas didn’t buy a single new vehicle to build one of the more sweeping property-surveillance...
A Texas Restoration Shop Promised Better Engines. It Delivered a 60-Year Prison Sentence Instead
A Galveston County judge has handed down one of the harshest sentences ever seen in...
Tesla’s New ‘Chip Facility’ in Austin Is Bigger Than the Pentagon — Texas Says It Cost Just $50,000
Somewhere east of Austin, Tesla has filed paperwork for a semiconductor building with more floor...