The family of an Oakland teenager is suing the city one year after a fallen tree limb killed their son at Lake Merritt near Fairyland.

What was supposed to be the start of one family’s Christmas celebration ended in tragedy early Monday morning when a Marine driving his family to the airport was struck and killed on the 10 Freeway after stopping to help a driver in a rollover crash.

Interstate 85 in Concord reopened early Tuesday morning after a BMW smashed into a fire truck responding to a wreck.
It happened just before 1:30 a.m. on I-85 northbound near Exit 49, Concord Mills Boulevard. Troopers say the fire truck was on the scene of a crash and was blocking two lanes to help redirect traffic when the wreck happened.

Families of the victims of the Orlando gay nightclub shooting on Monday filed a federal civil suit against Twitter, Facebook and Google for allegedly providing “material support” to the Islamic State and helping to radicalize shooter Omar Mateen.

Virginia State Police continue to investigate the multi-vehicle crash Saturday in the northbound lanes of Interstate 495 at the 50 mile marker. The chain-reaction crash occurred around 5:12 a.m., Saturday (Dec. 17), just as road conditions became slick and treacherous, police said.

Two people are dead and dozens are injured after a pileup early Saturday morning on Interstate 95 in Baltimore, and a third person was killed in a separate crash.

The driver killed in a six-car accident on Rogers Lane yesterday has been identified as Steven Ronio. Two other people were also hospitalized following the crash, one of which was transported to Oklahoma City for further treatment.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation says 59 vehicles crashed in a snowy pileup along a western Pennsylvania highway, and three people were hurt.

Driving during winter is dangerous. Tires don’t grip on wet, icy roads, and all too often drivers get unwanted lessons in Newtonian physics.

More than 260 people have been sickened by a Thanksgiving dinner at a popular Greece restaurant and party house, which is quite likely the largest recent outbreak of foodborne illness in Monroe County.

Police in Central California say a driver’s split-second decision to avoid hitting a woman in the street ended in the death of a man on the sidewalk.

Police in southwest Missouri say a woman outraged at a doctor was arrested after driving her pickup truck through a health center’s glass doors.

One person is dead and another 12 people are in the hospital following a collision between a multi-passenger van and a car in Fort Pierce.

An engineer has invented a device that he believes could eliminate distracted driving. He also says at least one mobile phone provider appears close to rolling out the gadget to its users and that another provider has shown an interest in the technology.

The Minnesota State Patrol recorded 600 crashes statewide from Saturday to Sunday morning as wintry weather hit --- and was expected to tear across several states.