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Denton Record-Chronicle
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Review shows hot spots for speeding
tickets
creased border enforcement.
“Through traffic enforce-
ment, troopers routinely arrest
drunk drivers; seize illegal drugs
and weapons before they make
it into our communities; arrest
wanted fugitives; rescue endan-
gered children during routine
traffic stops; help stranded mo-
torists; and provide lifesaving
aid to those in need,” Vinger
said.
injured every day in senseless,
preventable vehicle crashes —
all because someone chose to
By Anna M. Tinsley
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
FORT WORTH (AP) - If
you’re planning to squeeze in
one last road trip before the
summer ends, there are a few
hot spots in Texas where you
might want to slow down.
Especially if you’re planning
on a trip to South Padre Island.
The Fort Worth Star-Tele-
gram reports two of the coun-
ties where Texas Department of
Public Safety troopers write the
most tickets are on the state’s
southern tip, Hidalgo and Cam-
eron. Harris County (Houston)
also has a bunch.
Closer to home, there’s a bet-
ter chance of getting a ticket
from a DPS trooper in Parker or
Collin counties than Tarrant or
Dallas, according to 2i Star-Tele-
gram analysis of Texas Depart-
ment of Public Safety data from
2012 through 2016.
Parker County ranked No. 9
on the list with 26,506 tickets,
and Collin County is No. 10 with
26,431. Dallas is No. 13 at 13,714
and Tarrant County ranks No.
48 with 9,674.
Other North Texas counties
include: Wise 22,844; Denton
21,262; and Johnson 13,732.
“People die and are seriously
SPEED
LIMIT
drive irresponsibly, including
speeding,” said Tom Vinger, a
DPS spokesman. “We are un-
apologetic about our troopers’
efforts to enforce all laws in ev-
ery area of the state, and we’re
proud of the critical role they
play in keeping our roadways
safe for everyone.”
Across Texas, more than 1.6
million speeding tickets were is-
sued by troopers in the past five
years.
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Other interesting facts:
■ Speeding tickets were is-
sued in every one of the state’s
254 counties during the past five
■4t
“Texas is busting at the
seams, and anyone who’s driven
on Texas streets knows more
years.
■ Loving County, the least
populated county in Texas at 113
last year, saw the fewest tickets
issued: eight over the past five
drivers means more speeders,”
said Brandon Rottinghaus, a po-
litical science professor at the
University of Houston.
DPS officials stress that their
data doesn’t represent all the
speeding tickets issued in Texas.
Troopers generally don’t fo-
cus on traffic enforcement in cit-
years.
■ Two other counties saw
Laura Skelding, Austin American-Statesman/AP file photo
A tanker truck speeds down Interstate 35 in Austin in 2011 If you're planning to squeeze in one
last road trip before the summer ends, there are a few hot spots in Texas where you might
want to slow down.
fewer than 100 DPS-issued
speeding tickets over the past
five years: Borden, with 68, and
Kent, with 93. Both are near
Lubbock in West Texas.
Now, public safety officials
have some advice for Texas driv-
the DPS traffic control work fo-
cuses on the stretch of Chisholm
Trail Parkway that is outside the
Fort Worth city limits.
There are about 2,660 troop-
ers across the state.
The review of data shows
that the number of speeding
ies such as Fort Worth, Dallas,
Austin or Houston that have po-
lice forces doing the same thing.
That leaves them working,
for the most part, in suburban
and rural areas, such as Parker
in some border counties where
local police and sheriffs offices
are overworked or under-
staffed,” Rottinghaus said. “The
surge of DPS troopers in these
counties may be reflected in in-
creasing moving violations.”
In Tarrant County, much of
tickets issued by state troopers
appeared to be going down,
from 394,249 in 2012 to 291,441
in 2015.
Then in 2016, the number of
tickets issued rose to 317,443.
Some suggest the numbers
may have gone up because of in-
ers.
“We always tell people to
slow down, buckle up and don’t
have anything to drink and
drive,” said Lt. Lonny Haschel, a
local DPS spokesman.
County.
DPS is picking up the slack
Kids learn skills at W. Texas camp
Parents sue Alabama
school over suicide
“It is a little painstaking, but
your seam ripper can sometimes
be your best friend,” Degelia
said.
By Ronald W. Erdrich
Abilene Reporter-News
CISCO (AP) — Prior to this,
Miranda Cochran’s sewing skills
were limited to home surgery.
“I sewed-up my little sister’s
pony” she offered.
The Abilene Reporter-News
reports toy repair aside, tackling
pajama bottoms on a sewing
machine was a big step for a 7-
year-old. But at the Stitches of
Fun sewing and craft camp, on a
recent Thursday, she kept at it.
She had, after all, just made a
pillow.
A
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP)
— A lawsuit filed by the par-
ents of a Texas woman who
killed herself after reporting
she was sexually assaulted
while attending the Universi-
ty of Alabama has been
amended to include the
school as a defendant.
Court records show Me-
gan Rondini’s parents added
the university and its presi-
dent, Stuart R. Bell, to their
federal lawsuit seeking an un-
specified amount of money
over her treatment following
the alleged assault two years
ago. Rondini took her own
life last year. Her parents live
in Austin.
The updated lawsuit, filed
Wednesday contends the
university failed to protect
Rondini from T.J. Bunn Jr.,
whose relatives own a road-
building company and are big
donors to Alabama athletics,
according to the lawsuit. The
suit says the university violat-
ed its own policies and federal
law by failing to properly as-
sist Rondini after she report-
ed what had happened.
The school said in a state-
ment it will “vigorously de-
fend” itself and called Rondi-
ni’s death “tragic.”
Rondini, then a 20-year-
old junior who planned to go
to medical school, met Bunn
at a popular Tuscaloosa bar in
July 2015, according to the
complaint.
She was later sexually as-
saulted at his home, possibly
after being drugged, the suit
contends.
Bunn was not charged
with a crime. His attorneys
placed a full-page advertise-
ment in The Tuscaloosa
News on Thursday identify-
ing Bunn publicly and stating
that messages sent by Rondi-
ni before the encounter
showed it was consensual.
“It is not my friend,” C.J.
countered.
Degalia laughed.
“Well, it’s your friend because
now you can put your legs in
your pants when we’re done
with it,” she said. ‘Without that,
you wouldn’t be able to.”
It’s a learning process, and
that’s why C.J. and Kourtney
wanted to come in the first place.
“Sewing is just something
that we both really like to do,”
she said, adding that she appre-
ciated the experience gained in
this setting.
“We get to make fun projects
at the end of the day, and we get
to meet new people,” Kourtney
said.
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Ronald W. Erdrich, The Abilene Reporter-News/AP
Andrea Degalia draws a line on fabric for one of her students
as Samantha Cochran, 10, left, and her 7-year-old sister
Miranda watch during the Stitches of Fun program, a 4-H
sewing camp at the JT Ranch Quilt Shop in Cisco on July 13.
year-old sister, Samantha. The
two of them couldn’t attend both
days — there are lots of summer
activities to occupy a child’s
time. But coming to this camp
was especially important for Sa-
mantha.
“I just like sewing,” she said.
“I help my grandma because she
loves sewing a bunch.”
Their mother, Danielle Co-
chran, arrived to pick them up.
“Their grandmother is an av-
id quilter,” she confirmed. “So
this is fun practice for when they
are with her.”
Pajama pants weren’t the on-
ly thing the girls made, however.
Samantha’s favorite was the pil-
low they’d put together that
morning. An avid reader, she
‘It was fun,” she said. “I liked
it.’
Miranda bent her head to the
machine, keeping a careful eye
on the needle as it stitched her
seam. Andrea Degelia, who ran
the camp held inside the JT
Ranch Quilt Shop, watched
while lingering nearby.
Degelia is also the Family
and Consumer Sciences county
agent for the Texas A&M Agri-
life Extension Service in East-
land County.
She had rigged a small book
beneath the pedal on Miranda’s
sewing machine so the girl could
reach it and occasionally leaned
in to assist when her youngest
pupil needed her.
“This is our two-day sewing
camp,” Degelia explained. ‘We
call it ‘Stitches of Fun’ because
we’re learning our basic stitch-
was going to use it when paging
through one of the mysteries she
loves.
Kourtney also was a fan of
the pillow they made that day.
C.J.’s favorite thing so far is
something she crafted at last
year’s camp.
“The really cute skirt that I
made out of some fabric,” she
said. “I think sometime today
I’m going to start on a blanket
for my grammy and paw-paw.
I’ve got the stuff for it.”
Across the work table C.J.
Chaney was grumpily working a
seam ripper through her own
pajama project. Beside her,
Kourtney Peacock stoically per-
formed the same chore. Both 12-
year-olds had more experience
than the sisters, but mistakes
still happen.
“This is taking way too long,”
C.J. harrumphed.
INDICTMENTS
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■ Manuel Almaguer, 22, theft, Denton
police
■ Yahaira Rivera-Cruz, 30, theft,
Denton police
■ Karency Santiago-Cruz, 38, theft,
Denton police
■ Carmelo Bolta, 26, theft, Denton police
■ Savannah Wilson, 25, theft, Denton
police
■ Jimmy Adams, 24, theft, Denton
police
■ Hram Hei, 41, driving while intoxicat-
ed, Lewisville police
■ Thomas Lela, 62, continuous sexual
abuse of young children, indecency with
a child, Carrollton police
■ Erick Torres, 34, indecency with a
child, aggravated sexual assault, sexual
assault, Denton County Sheriff's Office
■ Christopher Roberts, 26, two counts
of indecency with a child, Krum police
■ Tracy Roth, 27, sexual assault,
Lewisville police
■ Fernando Marines, 42, indecency
with a child, Lewisville police
■ Chase Ramsey, 22, injury to a child,
endangering a child, Lewisville police
■ Mercedes Clemons, 24, endangering
a child, Lewisville police
■ Rolando Mendez, 21, injury to a child,
Lewisville police
The following people were indicted by a
Denton County grand jury on Thursday
at the Denton County Courts Building.
Listed are those indicted, their age,
charges and the law enforcement
agency that made the arrest:
■ Gregory Epley Jr., 42, stalking, Aubrey
police
■ Tamica Bester, 37, aggravated
assault, Denton police
■ Dario Torres, 28, assault family
violence, Denton police
■ Colton Coursey, 20, aggravated
assault, assault family violence, Frisco
police
■ Arvid Johnson, 52, aggravated
assault, Lewisville police
■ Stevie Jones, 50, assault family
violence, Denton police
■ Paul Phelps, 38, assault family
violence, Denton police
■ Blessed Andrews, 25, five
counts of burglary of a habitation,
Denton police
■ Early Brown Jr., 31, evading arrest,
two counts of theft, Denton police;
theft, Texas Woman's University
Department of Public Safety
■ Alexandria Jones, 29, possession of a
controlled substance, Denton police
es.
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