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Gas Cans, a Stolen Ambulance, and a DHS Building: How Idaho Investigators Pieced Together an Alleged Arson Plot
Hours before a stolen ambulance was driven into a federal building in Meridian, Idaho, surveillance cameras at a nearby Walmart allegedly captured the woman accused of the crash buying the gasoline cans investigators say she later used in an attempt to set the building on fire. A Night Documented Almost Entirely on Camera Authorities say…
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VW’s Own Dealers Are Suing to Stop Scout From Selling Cars the Tesla Way
Volkswagen’s answer to Tesla-style direct sales is running straight into resistance from the one group it needs on its side: its own dealer network. Who Filed the Suit and Why It Covers Every VW Dealer Two East Coast dealerships — Sunrise Imports, which operates Volkswagen of West Islip in New York, and Curran Volkswagen in…
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Inside the 4-Year Scheme That Used a Virginia Dealership’s Name to Fake $2 Million in Car Loans
None of the cars ever existed in the dealership’s inventory. That didn’t stop banks from wiring the money anyway — and it took federal investigators tracking losses across two dozen financial institutions to unwind exactly how. A Dealership Used as Paper, Not a Sales Floor Adrian Knight, 41, of Virginia Beach, owned Ace Auto Sales…
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A Trooper PIT’d a Parent Rushing a Sick Child to the Hospital. Now Arkansas Is Reviewing What Went Wrong.
A state trooper trying to stop what looked like a fleeing vehicle on I-630 in Little Rock instead ended up disabling a car carrying a parent racing a child in medical crisis to the hospital. Charges against the driver have now been dropped, but the more consequential question — whether the trooper’s use of a…
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E-Bike Accidents Jumped 18.6x in Five Years. California’s Answer: License Plates.
184 incidents in 2018. 3,429 by 2023. That 18.6-fold jump in reported e-bike accidents, according to data from the American College of Surgeons, is the number driving California lawmakers toward a solution that sounds more like something you’d expect for a motorcycle than a bicycle. From Speed Limits to License Plates California already passed SB-1271…
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44 Handguns, 79 Magazines, One C8 Corvette: Inside a Failed Border Gun-Smuggling Attempt
A mid-engine Corvette built to hit nearly 200 mph on a track met its match at a border checkpoint that doesn’t care how fast a car can go. According to federal authorities, what agents found stashed inside wasn’t luggage — it was 44 handguns and 79 magazines. An Outbound Stop That Looked Routine — At…
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Beyond the Crash: The Legal Theory Behind This $1M Cybertruck Autopilot Lawsuit
A Texas woman’s Cybertruck lawsuit isn’t just a story about one crash on a Houston overpass — it’s built on a legal argument that Tesla’s entire approach to driver-assistance technology is fundamentally flawed, and it’s landing in a courtroom environment that’s grown considerably less friendly to Tesla’s marketing claims. What the Complaint Actually Argues According…
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Aston Martin’s Second Round of Layoffs This Year Is Betting Everything on One Car
Aston Martin is cutting 20% of its 3,000-person workforce — its second round of job cuts this year — after a £493 million loss in 2025 that’s forcing the British supercar maker to lean almost entirely on a single new model to turn things around. The Financial Picture Behind the Cuts The numbers explain the…
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A Chrysler 300 Outran Georgia State Patrol’s Mustangs for 7 Minutes. Here’s How.
A white Chrysler 300 that looked like nothing special turned a routine traffic stop into a seven-minute pursuit that ended with troopers losing the car entirely — Mustangs included. A Routine Stop That Went Sideways in Seconds Dashcam footage that recently surfaced through a records request shows a Georgia State Patrol trooper, identified as Trooper…
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A Honk Allegedly Triggered an Orlando Road Rage Attack on a Pregnant Driver and an Officer
Police say the confrontation started with nothing more than a car horn — and ended with two drivers allegedly attacked, an officer allegedly bitten, and a $20,000 bond. What Investigators Say Happened The incident unfolded on Conroy Road near Millenia Boulevard, where authorities say a 35-year-old pregnant woman was driving a van with her baby…
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Seven Seconds: How Fast an Omaha Intersection Swallowed Two Vehicles Whole
Security cameras caught the entire sequence: two vehicles roll to a stop at a red light, and seven seconds later the pavement beneath them is simply gone. What the Footage Actually Shows The collapse happened around 3:30 p.m. at the intersection of 67th Street and Pacific Street in Omaha, Nebraska, where a maroon sinkhole opened…
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TVR Only Built One ‘White Elephant’ — And It Doubled as a Gun Dog Hauler
Somewhere between a flagship prototype and a company owner’s personal daily driver sits the 1988 TVR White Elephant — the only one ever built, and it’s now for sale in Leicester, England, after spending years forgotten in a factory. A Prototype Built as TVR’s Potential Flagship Then-managing director Peter Wheeler commissioned the White Elephant as…
