There are still a few remnants at Country Classic Cars from the fire that lit up the sky in this rural Illinois town the night of Aug. 8.
Concrete floors in the classic car business off old Route 66 remain warped and blackened in spots.

Debris from Monday’s “devastating” storm littered the state Tuesday as Mainers cleaned up and attempted to get back to their daily routines in the face of widespread power outages and property damage.

Flooded vehicles have finally stopped arriving at the Royal Purple Raceway east of Houston. That is just one of several insurance industry salvage locations where more than 422,000 insured vehicles damaged by Harvey have been taken for processing.

How do you remove hundreds of thousands of damaged cars from a massive city still mired in water and muck? Tow-truck driver Alex Toll will tell you: one vehicle at a time.

The Chevy Malibu produced a putrid cloud of must and steam as Troy Rondeno peered beneath the steering wheel. The saturated carpet reeked of mildew and hot plastic, and white spots of mold climbed the sedan’s black leather seats as it languished in a North Houston salvage yard.

Salvage efforts continued on Monday to remove a sunken drydock in an industrial portion of the Houston Ship Channel, home to major oil refineries and petrochemical plants, officials said.

Officials say driver error caused a tractor-trailer to go over the side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Thursday afternoon. According to police, 47-year-old Joseph Chen had just passed another tractor-trailer and as he re-entered the lane, he drove over a curb and went airborne.

Two men pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court Wednesday to conspiring to sink their 57-foot sportfishing charter boat in an insurance scam.

The August downpours that dumped more than 30 inches of rain in two days on parts on Louisiana have left as many as 100,000 insured cars and trucks damaged, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) in the United States said on Thursday.

Bogus insurance. Fraudulent registrations. Stolen cars disguised and resold to unsuspecting customers. Those were some of the tactics prosecutors say were used by dozens of people and three corporations in what they described as an auto-theft and insurance-fraud ring that operated in Philadelphia for years.

A Jefferson Parish grand jury indicted 13 men accused of running a large-scale auto theft ring with the help of an unnamed former elected official. The group operated for seven years, targeting mostly the East and West Banks of Jefferson Parish and was responsible for about 32 percent of the vehicle thefts in the parish, according to court records.