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Portland’s $207K Takeover Grant: Federal Cash, Tight Clock, Forfeiture Risk
Portland City Council voted 11-1 on September 23 to accept $207,411.35 to fight street takeovers. According to the city’s ordinance, that money covers police work between July 8 and September 30, 2026. So the city formally added the money to its budget with one week left before it expired. That sounds like bureaucratic slapstick, and…
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A Sheriff’s Helicopter on Another Call Spotted a Truck Under a Scottsdale Lake. Its Owner Went Missing in 2015.
A helicopter crew on an unrelated call spotted a submerged pickup in a McCormick Ranch lake. Inside were human remains, and the registration traced to a New Mexico missing-person case from 2015.
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Watch: Allegedly Stolen Mercedes Flies Into an Ashtonfield Front Yard, Then a 14-Year-Old Gets Bail Days After NSW Extended Its Youth Bail Law
Police say a Mercedes stolen an hour earlier went airborne on South Seas Drive in Ashtonfield, NSW. A 14-year-old was charged and bailed as the state renewed its youth bail test.
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Volkswagen Cut a Shift on the Line That Builds Its Best-Selling U.S. Model. Puebla’s Strike Deadline Is Friday.
Volkswagen cut a shift on the Puebla line that builds its best-selling U.S. model. Workers rejected a 10.04% offer tied to a longer wage cycle, and the strike deadline is Friday.
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Troopers Say He Blew Kisses at the Driver Filming Him on I-75, Brake-Checked Him, and Drove Off. They Found Him at Home That Night.
FHP says a pickup driver blew kisses at a man recording him on I-75 in Riverview, brake-checked him into a crash, then left. Troopers arrested him at home.
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Acura Just Benched Its Fastest SUV. The Reason Isn’t Sales. It’s a Rule the EPA Hasn’t Finished Writing.
Acura’s quickest three-row SUV is taking an unpaid leave of absence. The MDX Type S won’t be built as a 2027 model, and Acura hasn’t said when, or whether, it comes back. The reason Acura gives isn’t slow sales or a recall. It’s paperwork: uncertainty over which federal emissions rules a 2027 vehicle will have…
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Tesla Owes NHTSA 21 Cybercab Answers Today. Zoox’s Version Took Three Years.
NHTSA’s Special Order asks how a car with no wheel, pedals or mirrors meets driver-era safety rules, and whether removable controls figured in its certification. Zoox’s file shows where the answers may lead: an exemption capped at 2,500 cars a year.
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Dodge Said Its Free Anti-Theft Update Would Prevent Police Chases of Stolen Muscle Cars. One Ran From a Georgia Trooper on Three Wheels.
Dodge once said its free anti-theft software would help keep stolen muscle cars out of police chases. The list of cars that got it skipped the 2018 Scat Pack. At about 2:29 a.m. on July 2, 2023, Georgia State Patrol Trooper Mathews spotted a blue 2018 Dodge Challenger Scat Pack that Atlanta police had reported…
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Hyundai Outsold Ford on Hybrids by 10,000 in August. Now Cox Forecasts Hyundai Takes Ford’s No. 3 Spot in U.S. Sales This Quarter.
Cox Automotive forecasts Hyundai Motor Group will outsell Ford in the third quarter. Hyundai’s hybrid lineup, and Ford’s lack of a compact hybrid crossover, explain most of the swing.
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Researcher Shut Off a Moving BYD’s Headlights From the Roadside, Then Used Its Speakers to Get Siri to Read Out the Driver’s Home Address
A researcher sat on the shoulder of a road outside Canberra with a laptop and switched off the headlights of a moving BYD Shark 6. There was a reporter at the wheel. The stunt was staged for Australia’s ABC and its investigative program Four Corners, which handed the plug-in hybrid ute to Dan Hreszczuk, co-founder…
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Minnesota Cops Declined to Chase a Stolen Car Seen Going Over 70 MPH, Then It Crossed a Moorhead Golf Course and Stopped in a Pond
Moorhead, Minnesota, police let a stolen car go in May, and it ended in a golf course pond. In 2014, they chased a pickup across the city’s other course.
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Police Spent Weeks Identifying Riders From Street Takeover. 18 Are Charged, and 15 Charge Sheets Say ‘Breach of Peach.’
Police say about 200 riders took over part of Newington’s Berlin Turnpike in July, with some cutting across store property. Eighteen arrests later, the charge sheet has a fruit problem.
