| The Story | Rhome PD, if all goes well, will be providing police services to the city of Newark. (Watcha gonna do when Rhome comes for you?) |
| News worthiness (on a scale of 0 to 5) | ** |
| The Spin | "This job wouldn't be so boring if we had more people to arrest. Hey, what about Newark?" |
| The Story | A 74 year old man "apparently fell out of his pickup" while driving on highway 287 near Alvord. |
| News worthiness | *** |
| The Spin | OK, we'll ask the very obvious question: How exactly do you fall out of a vehicle that you are driving down an interstate highway? |
| The Story | Denton and Wise Counties each claim the other has jurisdiction over "a 300-yard stretch of road on the Wise/Denton County line between U.S. 380 and Farm Road 51 that is commonly called Flow Road." The road is in a state of disrepair because of the dispute. |
| News worthiness | * |
| The Spin | Tell the city of Fort Worth. They'll annex it as part of its extra-territorial jurisdiction within 15 minutes. Problem solved. |
| The Story | Tragedy begins fresh this year as a rock truck allegedly strikes the Evans family of Rhome, killing one and sending three to the hospital. |
| News worthiness | *** |
| The Spin | Some people thought the 1980s were the most dangerous years to drive on 380 and 114. We'll nominate the last five years to take first place. |
| The Story | Bridgeport High School puts on a program in an effort to prevent DWI. To stress the alleged high frequency of DWI related deaths, "[e]very 15 minutes through the rest of the school [day, a] student would be pulled out of class and his or her obituary read over the intercom." |
| News worthiness | ** |
| The Spin | Is it just us, or is that a bit over the top? |