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Gary Matranga is 86 years old, closing in on his 87th birthday, and this summer he drove a highly modified 1966 Barracuda across Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats fast enough to set two speed records. Now the Sacramento driver and his crew say they want more: a run at 400 mph in a rocket-shaped streamliner, a car built with its wheels lying on its side rather than standing upright.

A Staten Island mother and daughter face charges in a Medicaid fraud case involving more than $530,000 in payments prosecutors say their adult day care ... Read More

Four people were hospitalized as a result of the crash, which took place around 10 a.m. on Oct. 20

A Brook Park police officer is in the Lorain County Jail, charged with several felonies and multiple misdemeanors following an incident Wednesday morning in Columbia Township. Frankie Smith, 28, of Brook Park, was being held on $242,500 bond on charges of burglary, improper handling of firearms in a motor vehicle and theft, all felonies, plus misdemeanor charges of DUI, criminal damaging and unlawful restraint, according to the Lorain County Sheriff's Office.

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Two separate traffic stops are raising questions about possible preferential treatment by the Fort Myers Police Department. In August, a Fort Myers city employee called Chief Jason Fields after she was pulled over for speeding in a school zone. The chief then asked the officer to void a $300 speeding ticket.

A Virginia cop allegedly walked into Target in full uniform, tampered with a barcode, and left with Magic: The Gathering cards he had not fully paid for. That alone would have been a bizarre end to Scott Abram's 20-plus-year law enforcement career, but investigators say the 44-year-old then surfaced at another Target just four hours later in connection with a second suspected theft.

A Missouri tow truck company owner has been sentenced to nearly 13 years in federal prison for using forged paperwork to sell or scrap stolen vehicles, leading to several million dollars in proceeds. According to ... Read more

Ryan O'Donnell's parking problem added up to about $524: two tickets for an expired meter and one for overstaying a time limit. Chicago's answer was to tow his car, impound it, and sell it at scrap value, $273, to URT United Road Towing, the private company that tows for the city. According to the federal appeals court that upheld the arrangement, the city did not use any of that money to pay down his tickets.

A new report indicates that a team deployed by Pete Hegseth's staff dropped a priceless globe believed to be owned by former president Dwight D. Eisenhower in an attempt to relocate it to Hegseht's office

Federal agents executed early morning SWAT raids in Tarzana to arrest chiropractor Dr. Hany Malek and cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Harold Tabaie in an alleged $135 million Medicare fraud scheme. The duo co-owned two Los Angeles-based clinics where they lured patients with illegal kickbacks to perform medically unnecessary, invasive atherectomy leg...