Austin DWI News
- Texas DPS adds patrols for Memorial Day weekend 2013-05-20
- AUSTIN -- More Texas troopers will be on patrol over the Memorial Day weekend watching for speeders, drunken drivers and travelers not wearing seat belts. The Department of Public Safety says increased holiday patrols will begin Friday and run through the Monday holiday. DPS troopers last Memorial Day weekend arrested 609 DWI violators and wrote more than 6,000 speeding citations. DPS also had ...
- Austin man rescued from sinking car 2013-05-18
- An Austin man is in jail after an accident in New Braunfels Saturday sank his car in a pond.
- State Rep. arrested for DWI seeks re-election 2013-05-17
- AUSTIN -- A Texas state representative arrested for DWI during South by Southwest says she's running for re-election. Fellow lawmakers gave Democrat Naomi Gonzalez a standing ovation back when she apologized for that incident. Austin police say Gonzalez had a blood alcohol content nearly twice the legal limit when she crashed into another car. Gonzalez's office confirmed Friday that she does ...
- Randy Travis sues to block release of DWI video 2013-05-17
- Grammy-award winning singer Randy Travis doesn't want the public to see his recent DWI arrest. The reason: he's only wearing his birthday suit! Now he's taking the attorney general to court over it. 2012
- Jets' Goodson facing drug, weapons charges 2013-05-17
- New York Jets running back Mike Goodson is facing drug and weapons charges after he was found in a car with an acquaintance early Friday morning on Interstate 80 in New Jersey.
- Lehmberg Saga Continues 2013-05-16
- D.A. released from jail amid more calls for her removal
- Man charged in fatal 2012 DWI crash 2013-05-15
- AUSTIN -- An Austin man was charged with intoxication manslaughter for a fatal collision in 2012. Salvador Del Rio, Jr. died last August on FM 973 when an on-coming car swerved into his lane and the two collided. According to an arrest warrant signed Wednesday, the other driver 20-year-old Hector Eduardo Salazar had a blood alcohol level between 0.108 and 0.168. Salazar's bond was set at $50,000 ...
- New proposal could mean DWI arrest after one drink 2013-05-14
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- NTSB urges lower legal limit for driving drunk 2013-05-14
- Federal accident investigators want states to lower the legal amount of alcohol you can have in your system when you're behind the wheel from .08 to .05. The goal, is to reduce fatality and injury crashes
- A mixed reaction in Austin to .05 2013-05-14
- A new law that would lower the threshold for DWI would not be be the cure-all for drunken driving, a spokesman for Mothers Against Drunk Driving said Tuesday.
- Woman pleads guilty to 2011 fatal drunk driving crash 2013-05-14
- AUSTIN -- A woman charged with causing a drunk driving collision which killed her passenger has pleaded guilty to intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Erica Lynn Nash-Wood, 24, pleaded guilty on May 2 to the incident which took place in September of 2011. Nash-Wood turned herself into the Travis County Jail. She is charged with two second-degree ...
- DA Rosemary Lehmberg seeking 'medical assistance' 2013-05-13
- Full statement: Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg is seeking medical treatment to "deal with the behavior" which led to her arrest, according to a statement released late Monday.
- DA Lehmberg seeking 'professional help' 2013-05-13
- On Monday evening, Rosemary Lehmberg released a statement talking about her "mistake" and how she is currently seeking "professional help."
- Travis County DA issues statement after being released from jail 2013-05-13
- After being freed from jail for serving a sentence for a DWI conviction, Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg released the following statement: "I am currently seeking professional help on
- Jags' Blackmon blames problems on poor decisions 2013-05-13
- Justin Blackmon pinned his problems on his decisions.
