Patrick and Michele Mowrey are stuck in Chesapeake. The couple has been traveling the country for the last six years in their RV, but after a tornado touched down in the Edinburgh area November 1, they have been unable to travel.

Kristin Bevilacqua-Nowell was asleep on her couch when she was awakened by the sound of her kitchen window blowing out and a wind tunnel of shattered glass pummeling through the first floor of her home.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched an investigation into the possibility that battery defects in Tesla vehicles may have caused the cars to burst into flames.

Slick roads made for a scary Halloween drive. One car spun around on Eastbound I-70 3rd St. at the Polk-Quincy viaduct. Other vehicles were left in the ditch or off the road. One vehicle rolled on I-70 near West Union Road. Not too far away a military style truck collided with a tow truck.

Satisfaction with auto insurance claims is at an all time high, according to J.D. Power & Associates’ U.S. Auto Claims Satisfaction Study. However, policyholders are still eager to talk to live reps for assurance that their claim will be handled in the best manner.

Subaru is recalling more than 400,000 Impreza and Crosstrek models that may short circuit or unexpectedly lose power while driving. The auto manufacturer announced the two recalls this week.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety rated the pedestrian crash prevention systems of 16 midsize cars in the lead-up to Halloween, a holiday that consistently ranks among the deadliest days for pedestrians in the United States.

A local man is in jail for allegedly filing a false insurance claim after losing his truck while intoxicated. Joseph Michael Harrington, 41, of Washington City, faces one second-degree felony count of filing a false or fraudulent insurance claim, along with two misdemeanor charges for providing a written false statement and for reporting a fraudulent emergency to police, fire or medical, according to the probable cause statement filed in support of the arrest.

Powerful new winds could bring more devastation to parts of California already ravaged by wildfires. Crews battling the massive Kincade Fire in Northern California’s wine country fear the wind could fan the flames.

Insurance experts estimated on Wednesday that the tornadoes which slammed North Texas on Sunday night caused $2 billion in damage, making it the costliest tornado event in Texas history.

A man and a woman died Wednesday morning when the vehicle they were in fell from the fourth floor of a parking garage near City Market, officials say.

A fire that destroyed a waterfront home was likely caused by a generator used to power the residence following the gale that darkened much of Knox County.

There were an estimated 748,841 vehicle thefts in the United States in 2018, or about 229 per 100,000 Americans. The vehicles stolen were worth, according to the FBI, an estimated total of over $6 billion.

A two-vehicle crash in southern Crawford County sent one pickup truck into a home Monday morning, knocking the house partly off its foundation. "I’m waiting for the (insurance) adjuster to look at it," said Lisa Peterson, the home’s owner told the Tribune on Monday.

U.S. traffic deaths fell 2.4% in 2018 to 36,560 although the number of pedestrians killed rose to its highest level in nearly three decades, the U.S. auto safety agency said Tuesday.