NBC 5 in Dallas reports that Texas leads the nation in wrong way crashes and is doing little to stop the resulting carnage on our highways.

Despite years of detailed recommendations to prevent wrong-way crashes, an NBC 5 investigation has found the Texas Department of Transportation has yet to implement many of those safety measures on North Texas roads. Meanwhile other states and even local toll road operators have taken steps that appear to be reducing the number of wrong-way incidents.

Texas leads the nation is wrong-way crashes. Using TxDOT data, NBC 5 Investigates has learned there have been almost 3,500 wrong-way crashes in just four years. Most are caused by drunken drivers who blow past warning signs and then slam head-on into other drivers.

Forbes reports that a Wichita Falls man was arrested while attempting to pay his $600 property tax bill with one dollar bills.

Only there’s a little bit more to the story than that. The 27-year old Texan, Timothy Andrew Norris, arrived in person at the Wichita County Courthouse to pay his $600 property tax with individual dollar bills – only there was a twist. Or, er, a fold. Norris had allegedly folded each bill so tightly that it “required tax office personnel approximately six minutes to unfold each bill.” If you’re doing the math, that means that it would take 3,600 minutes – or 60 hours, longer than a work week – to unfold the bills.

Norris was clearly within his rights as legal tender is an acceptable form of payment under Tex. Tax. Code 31.06.  The real trouble began when a crowd started forming around the spectacle prompting  Wichita County Tax Assessor-Collector Tommy Smyth to ask Norris to leave.  When he refused, Norris was arrested for criminal trespass and then compounded the problem by resisting arrest.  My guess is that he will be able to generate a considerable defense fund to fight off the charges.   And one can only wonder how long it took Norris to fold the dollar bills so tightly.

The Dallas Morning News reports that John Attanasio, the former dean of the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University in Dallas was arrested by Texas Department of Public Safety officers on prostitution charges.  Attanasio was arrested early Sunday morning and booked into the Collin County Jail on charges of solicitation of prostitution.  He was released after posting a $500 bond for the charge, which is a Class B misdemeanor.  SMU has declined comment other than to confirm that Attanasio is still employed but will not be teaching classes this week.