Thieves Stole an Australian Mom’s Truck With Her Baby Inside — Then Drove Back to Return Her
Sarah Hill, 32, was standing in the driveway of her Garbutt home in Townsville, Australia,...
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Milwaukee’s Alleged Street Takeover Ringleader Is Headed to Trial Over a Hellcat 300 Built From Stolen Parts
A Milwaukee street-takeover case that first made headlines after investigators zeroed in on a supercharged...
A $6.5 Million Classic Car Theft Ring Got Two 74-Year-Olds a Suspended Sentence
Two men behind a sprawling classic car theft ring pleaded guilty this week and walked...
Two Drivers Stopped Traffic on I-70 to Fight, and One Grabbed a Tire Iron
There are bad places to settle a disagreement, and then there’s stopping your car in...
Spike Strips Meant for a Stolen Jeep Killed a Mom on I-64. Now It’s a Federal Lawsuit.
Here’s a question nobody wants to be the test case for: how fast does a...
The Wire Rundown: Corvette Heist, Honda Recall, and Porsche Kills the Electric 911
The Auto Wire’s morning roundup of the stories actually worth your time, recapped fast, with...
The Viral Mustang ‘Fleeing’ Case Isn’t About Lights and Sirens at All
When the arrest of 19-year-old Tara Ashley Palmieri spread across social media late last year,...
The Classic Car Fraudster Sentenced to 60 Years Just Filed an Appeal
The Galveston County classic-car restorer who was handed a 60-year prison sentence earlier this year...
Thieves Tracked Power Tour Owners to Their Hotels and Stripped the Lot Overnight
The people driving in this year’s Hot Rod Power Tour spent Monday showing off some...
A McLaren and a Bentley Were Seized in a $30 Million Kids’ Medicaid Fraud Case
Federal prosecutors say four people in Ohio turned a children’s health program into a personal...
A Fully Equipped Cop SUV Was Stolen From an Oakland Garage, and It’s Still Missing
Stealing a cop car is the kind of thing that usually only happens in a...
Oakland’s License Plate Cameras Generated So Many Alerts, It Muted the Stolen-Car Ones
The pitch behind automated license plate readers is seductively simple: give an understaffed department a...
He Blew Zeros on the Breathalyzer and Got Arrested for DUI Anyway
A driver who insisted he was stone-cold sober has been vindicated in federal court, walking...
The ‘Stolen’ Koenigsegg One:1 Was Actually Just Repossessed, and It’s Heading to Auction
For months, the supercar world had itself convinced that one of the rarest Koenigseggs on...
A Drunk Driver’s Mustang Ended Up in a Pond, and a Ladder Rescue Made It Viral
A late-night drive on a California highway turned into one of the more bizarre crash...