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Police Say an Arizona Chop Shop Suspect Hired an Excavator to Bury a Stolen Truck. The Operation Paid Just $500 a Vehicle An excavator bucket digging a deep hole in dirt

Police Say an Arizona Chop Shop Suspect Hired an Excavator to Bury a Stolen Truck. The Operation Paid Just $500 a Vehicle

EL Puckett September 28, 2026 0
Wickenburg police say a couple stripped stolen Phoenix-area vehicles under a slab-mounted engine hoist, then buried a...
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Police Say a Naked Man Took a Ford Taurus the Wrong Way Down a Colorado Springs Boulevard. Cops Backed Off, and It Crashed Anyway Multi-lane Academy Boulevard in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Police Say a Naked Man Took a Ford Taurus the Wrong Way Down a Colorado Springs Boulevard. Cops Backed Off, and It Crashed Anyway

EL Puckett September 28, 2026 0
A CSPD drone tracked a stolen company Ford Taurus going the wrong way on Academy Boulevard. Police...
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A Fleeing Sedan Lost a Wheel Near Mannheim Road and Kept Going. Here’s Why That Was Never Going to Work a close up of a tire on a road

A Fleeing Sedan Lost a Wheel Near Mannheim Road and Kept Going. Here’s Why That Was Never Going to Work

John Lloyd September 25, 2026 0
A Berkeley police stop became a west-suburban chase that kept going after the car lost a wheel...
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One Lane Change, Five Totaled Cars: What a State Street Crash Into a Salt Lake City Audi Lot Will Really Cost Traffic on State Street heading toward downtown Salt Lake City

One Lane Change, Five Totaled Cars: What a State Street Crash Into a Salt Lake City Audi Lot Will Really Cost

Shawn Henry September 24, 2026 0
Two drivers were cited after a State Street crash sent cars into a Salt Lake City Audi...
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A $400,000 GTO Judge Rode Off in a Stolen Trailer in Dayton. Detectives Had It Back Before Lunch. White 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge with Judge stripes and Ram Air hood parked at a car show

A $400,000 GTO Judge Rode Off in a Stolen Trailer in Dayton. Detectives Had It Back Before Lunch.

Shawn Henry September 24, 2026 0
Thieves took a GMC Sierra Denali and the trailer behind it, along with a one-family 1970 GTO...
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Sandy Springs Police Joked About Their ‘Slowest PIT.’ That’s Exactly How a PIT Should Look A patrol car uses a PIT maneuver to spin a fleeing vehicle on a highway

Sandy Springs Police Joked About Their ‘Slowest PIT.’ That’s Exactly How a PIT Should Look

John Lloyd September 24, 2026 0
Sandy Springs police joked about their "slowest PIT." Here’s why low speed matters, and what the driver’s...
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Nashville’s Second Attempt to Kill Racing at Fairgrounds Speedway Comes With a $116 Million Catch A Pro Late Model race car navigates a turn during weekly short-track racing action at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway.

Nashville’s Second Attempt to Kill Racing at Fairgrounds Speedway Comes With a $116 Million Catch

John Lloyd September 23, 2026 0
Nashville’s Fairgrounds Speedway has now survived one lawsuit and absorbed a second signature drive aimed at shutting...
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The 2026 Tesla Model 3 Just Swept NHTSA’s Five Stars — Here’s Every Test That Rating Skips 2025 Tesla Model 3 Long Range on display at a Tesla store

The 2026 Tesla Model 3 Just Swept NHTSA’s Five Stars — Here’s Every Test That Rating Skips

EL Puckett September 20, 2026 0
Every NHTSA subscore came back five stars. The IIHS results, the carryover testing and the delayed NCAP...
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