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For someone cruising around town last month, Italian-made luxury cars are disposable as a 5-cent plastic grocery bag.

State troopers found a yellow Lamborghini Gallardo abandoned on the Dallas North Tollway near Royal Lane.

The car, which retails for more than $180,000, had been wrecked in the early morning of Monday, March 9. The Texas Department of Public Safety had the car towed to the police impound lot.

It turned out the Lamborghini belonged to a rental company in Farmers Branch, Exotic Skittles, which specializes in eye-catching luxury sports cars.

The Lamborghini was damaged on both sides from hitting concrete barriers and was expected to be a total loss. It was covered by insurance, and Exotic Skittles owner Tim Tran told the Dallas Morning News he hadn’t decided whether to press criminal charges against the driver, who was not identified. — Rachel Stone

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88.9 percent increase in murders in Dallas in the first six weeks of 2015 over the same period in 2014 murders occurred from Jan. 1-Feb. 15, compared to nine in that period of the previous year robberies occurred from Jan. 1-Feb. 15, a 10.5 percent increase