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A Camaro, a Bridge, and Nine Charges: What a Tennessee Drag Race Actually Costs When Kids Are in the Back Seat A police light bar flashing red and blue against a dark night background

A Camaro, a Bridge, and Nine Charges: What a Tennessee Drag Race Actually Costs When Kids Are in the Back Seat

John Lloyd September 2, 2026 0
On Wednesday, August 26, an officer patrolling South Broadway in Portland, Tennessee watched two cars line up...
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A CDL School Told Inspectors Its Classroom Was Inside a School Bus. That’s How Bad Trucking Fraud Has Gotten. Blue semi-truck approaching on a highway from a car's perspective

A CDL School Told Inspectors Its Classroom Was Inside a School Bus. That’s How Bad Trucking Fraud Has Gotten.

John Lloyd August 31, 2026 0
Federal investigators sent 175 people into 40 states this summer to check on truck driving schools, and...
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Houston’s Real Batmobile Got a Flat Tire on I-45, and the Repair Bill Isn’t the Interesting Part a car that is sitting in the grass

Houston’s Real Batmobile Got a Flat Tire on I-45, and the Repair Bill Isn’t the Interesting Part

John Lloyd August 31, 2026 0
Houston drivers have gotten used to seeing a low, black, fin-covered car cruising around town with a...
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Seven Supercars Ran ‘Follow the Leader’ on a Colorado Highway. Deputies Were Already Waiting at the Finish Line police-catch-seven-drivers-turned-highway-race-track-speeding-colorado

Seven Supercars Ran ‘Follow the Leader’ on a Colorado Highway. Deputies Were Already Waiting at the Finish Line

John Lloyd August 21, 2026 0
Highway 103 in Clear Creek County, Colorado isn’t a closed circuit, a canyon run with a scenic...
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Someone Firebombed A McLaren Outside A Birmingham Wedding, And The Getaway Car Was A Volkswagen Golf McLaren Artura Spider, the brand's current V6 hybrid supercar, file photo

Someone Firebombed A McLaren Outside A Birmingham Wedding, And The Getaway Car Was A Volkswagen Golf

John Lloyd August 21, 2026 0
Somewhere outside a banqueting hall in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, three men in hoods spent roughly ten seconds throwing...
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Police Charged a Man Over a Toppled Flock Camera — and the Charge Tells You the Repair Bill Solar-powered Flock Safety automated license plate reader camera mounted on a pole.

Police Charged a Man Over a Toppled Flock Camera — and the Charge Tells You the Repair Bill

Shawn Henry August 20, 2026 0
Brick Township police charged a 31-year-old with fourth-degree criminal mischief after a Flock license plate camera was...
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Stolen in 1993, Found Decades Later: How a Routine CHP VIN Check Cracked This Chevelle Cold Case Black 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle SS recovered by CHP Auburn 33 years after a 1993 San Mateo County theft

Stolen in 1993, Found Decades Later: How a Routine CHP VIN Check Cracked This Chevelle Cold Case

John Lloyd August 18, 2026 0
There is a photograph circulating out of the California Highway Patrol’s Auburn Area office: three men, arms...
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Porsche Driver Allegedly Backs Into CHP Cruiser During Traffic Stop, Blows Four Times the Legal Limit 774814519_18487912570099634_6946156093735699939_n

Porsche Driver Allegedly Backs Into CHP Cruiser During Traffic Stop, Blows Four Times the Legal Limit

John Lloyd August 15, 2026 0
California Highway Patrol’s Monterey office says a Porsche driver managed to get pulled over for triple-digit speed,...
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