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More DPS Workers Testing Blood To Ease Backlog

The Texas Department of Public Safety has reassigned about 15 crime lab workers to blood testing to help trim a backlog in drunken driving cases.

2012/12/07

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Man Sentenced in Wrong-Way Crash In Dallas

A jury has sentenced Juan Hernandez to 15-years in prison for the March head-on accident on I-20 near Hutchins. The accident killed Neri Garcia and left former Dallas County Community College police officer Milton Smith, 62, crippled for life.

2012/10/25

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New Ways For Super Bowl Fans To Avoid DWIs

If you ask officials from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), when it comes to Super Bowl fans “it’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you get home that matters”.

CBSDFW.COM–2011/01/31

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Lawmakers To Renew Sobriety Checkpoint Effort

North Texas lawmakers plan to try again to introduce a sobriety checkpoints bill in the new legislative session.

CBSDFW.COM–2010/11/27

Justin Heaton was charged with intoxication manslaughter in the death of nationally known burn surgeon Gary F. Purdue.

Man Accused Of Hitting Doctor Has Lengthy Record

A nationally renowned burn surgeon at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Hospital was killed Sunday morning by a suspected drunken driver, Dallas Police officials said.

2010/10/03