{"id":355531,"date":"2026-06-30T09:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355531\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:18:13","slug":"texas-state-police-in-national-best-looking-cruiser-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/355531\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas state police in National \u201cBest Looking Cruiser\u201d contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas State Police are in the running for a national title in the American Association of State Troopers\u2019 (AAST) annual \u201cBest Looking Cruiser\u201d contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Voting is now open and runs through July 11, 2025. Members of the public can vote once per day, per device by visiting the AAST website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statetroopers.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.statetroopers.org<\/a> or through the AAST Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To vote, viewers can scroll through the gallery of state cruiser photos, select Texas State Police from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the page, and answer the required captcha question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The winner will be awarded the title of \u201cBest Looking Cruiser\u201d and featured on the cover of AAST\u2019s 2026 \u201cAmerica\u2019s Best Looking Trooper Cruisers\u201d wall calendar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Proceeds from the calendar benefit the AAST Foundation, which provides educational scholarships to dependents of AAST member troopers.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas State Police are in the running for a national title in the American Association&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[126485,126484,126483,319,27,29,28,59732],"class_list":["post-355531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-aast","tag-american-association-of-state-troopers","tag-best-cruser-contest","tag-kcbd","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-state-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}