A bus with an unlicensed driver spun out of control near New Orleans on Sunday, killing two people and injuring 41, while taking volunteers to help with Louisiana flood relief, officials said.

A small plane lost control while taking off at Fullerton Airport on Wednesday evening and crashed into three parked planes.

There’s no question that driver fatigue poses a serious threat to safety on our nation’s roadways. But just how bad is the threat?

There are few things worse than having your relatively new car stall on you without warning. That’s why Ford is recalling nearly 90,000 vehicles with a defect that could leave your car dead — and unable to restart — in the middle of the road.

The Tyler Police Department is investigating the theft of more than $250,000 worth of wheels and tires from a local business. According to Tyler Police, on Sunday at around 3 p.m., officers were called to Peltier Chevrolet on a report of a theft of a large number of wheels and tires from their new vehicles.

The investigation continues into a school bus crash in Midland Monday morning, where seven children were injured and the bus driver has died.

Authorities say three people are critically injured Tuesday after a taxi jumped a curb and plowed into an advertising kiosk and a shoeshine stand at a busy corner in downtown San Francisco.

The Basics: Mitsubishi is recalling 82,436 vehicles from the 2015 and 2016 model year. The recall affects the continuously variable transmissions, or CVTs, in 2015-16 Outlander Sports, 2016 Outlanders, and 2016 Lancers.

Uber is putting self-driving on the fast track of its business model. The on-demand car pioneer recently bought a company that’s designing autonomous big rigs and it’ll soon be testing self-driving passenger cars in the race among transportation rivals.

Four people were killed, including a 3-month-old baby, in an extra-alarm fire early Tuesday in the South Chicago neighborhood. The fire started around 1:40 a.m. in a three-story apartment building in the 8100 block of South Essex Avenue.

Officials say no one was injured when a train hauling coal derailed in rural North Texas, sending some cars into a creek.
Union Pacific spokesman Jeff DeGraff says 26 cars derailed off the end of a southbound train around 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the city of Roanoke, about 30 miles north of Fort Worth.

Two NJ Transit buses collided in a "T-bone" crash Friday in New Jersey, killing two people and injuring 17 others. Shortly after 6 a.m. Friday, a NJ Transit bus - the 59 line to Westfield - collided with the 13 bus that was traveling from Irvington to Belleville, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.

Heavy downpours, lightning and strong winds caused power outages and damage to homes and buildings throughout the D.C. area Wednesday night.

It was like the scene out of a movie, an out of control bus slams into cars, houses, a church and a dumpster before coming to rest on a porch, with it all unfolding in real life in Lebanon late Wednesday night.

Toyota is recalling 337,000 cars and SUVs for the third time for the same problem, except this time dealers will use a different repair procedure on the vehicles. The 2006-2011 Toyota RAV4 and 2010 Lexus HS 250h vehicles were first recalled in 2012 after a federal investigation into rear suspension arm assembly failures on both the left and right sides.