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| More Texting Drivers in Texas and Other States Without Ban, Study Says |  | Comparing the 46 states with bans on texting to the four that do not ' Texas, Missouri, Arizona and Montana ' researchers with AT&T found drivers in the states without a ban have a roughly 17 percent higher rate of texting. The study was unique in that it used AT&T customers with Android phones and logged their texting from moving vehicles. The information, which only included incidents of texting and shielded identities, was then analyzed with a host of other factors to get a valid sample of how likely people are to text while commuting in metro areas, Susanne Halstead, senior data scientist with AT&T, said Tuesday. That means unlike surveys where people are asked about their texting habits behind the wheel ' where some people lie ' the study is based on actual incidents of people texting from a moving car and census data related to how many people drive alone or with someone.
Dug Begley, Houston Chronicle 04/13/2016    | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Widower Files Suit Against Gun Sellers, Including Walmart | | A lawsuit has been filed against multiple gun sellers who sold a gun that was used by a white supremacist to kill three people in Overland Park, Kansas. The lawsuit was filed by a man whose wife was among the three victims killed two years ago at a Jewish site in Overland Park. The complaint, filed in Jackson County Circuit Court, blames the woman's death on the companies involved in the sale of the gun to the shooter. The lawsuit contends that the sellers should have known that a straw buyer was purchasing the gun for someone other than himself. Named as defendants in the lawsuit are Walmart, Friendly Firearms LLC. and two other entities.
Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star 04/11/2016 | | Read Article: Kansas City Star |
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