Online, dozens of companies legally sell novelty license plates, including through Amazon. For less than $15, anyone can customize and purchase a Texas metal plate that looks just like a real one.

The former San Francisco fire commissioner who said a homeless man brutally attacked him with a metal pipe has been accused of initiating the April 5 altercation.

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Temporary paper license plates will be a thing of the past in Texas. The state will largely eliminate paper license plates, replacing them with metal ones, starting Tuesday.