If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times: You don’t want your vehicle to catch on fire. For that reason, Mercedes-Benz is recalling more than 354,000 vehicles.

The mold assessor thought his efforts were competent. His assignment? An expansive home complemented with tasteful contents accumulated over five decades of Florida living.

Nolan Mullins was just trying to change lanes when the steering wheel of his mother’s Ford Flex locked up and aimed him right into the chilly waters of Lake St. Clair.

Authorities say a massive industrial fire has destroyed several vehicles and a building at a car dealership near Syracuse.

The company said an inspection of its brewery in Mills River, North Carolina, "detected a very limited number of bottles with a flaw that may cause a small piece of glass to break off and possibly fall into the bottle, creating a risk for injury."

A 150-pound pet tortoise is being blamed for a fire that caused heavy damage to the home of a neighbor on the city’s far Northwest Side.

A seven-mile stretch of Interstate 70 was closed in both directions on Monday morning after a chain-reaction crash led to a semitruck blocking the highway and a fully loaded tanker rolling over, the Greater Eagle Fire District said.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder declared a state of emergency Friday for Macomb County due to last month’s collapse of a massive sewage line that has caused a football field-sized sinkhole in one of its communities.

Twenty lawsuits later, the dust has finally settled from an explosion and fire at North Shore Marina nearly four years ago. “We’re happy to be done with it,” Marina Manager Jill Kinkema said last week. “We got to the point where we wanted to put that behind us.”

There are a lot of things you don’t want to happen to your car, but having it go up in flames for no apparent reason is likely close to the top of the list. Yet, that’s apparently occurred to eight Smart vehicles in the last two years.

Seven people were hurt — two seriously — when an escalator at the Atlantic Terminal Mall in Brooklyn malfunctioned Tuesday evening. According to store employees, people were walking down a non-working escalator when it began to move without warning just after 6 p.m.

The Food and Drug Administration announced a series of related recalls of products, including waffle mix, kettle chips and macaroni and cheese, because of possible salmonella contamination.

A 10-alarm blaze erupted Saturday afternoon in a dense Cambridge neighborhood, destroying or damaging at least 11 buildings, and displacing at least 60 people in a conflagration that Fire Chief Gerald Reardon described as looking like a “ball of fire” in war zones.

Toys R Us is pulling a toy off the shelves after a scary situation for a Bellingham family. The Hardens bought a Tonka truck from Toys R Us as a Christmas present for their grandson Friday night. On the drive home, they say it ignited in flames.

More details have been released regarding a multiple-vehicle crash that happened in Eau Claire Wednesday morning. It happened near the intersection of Clairemont Ave. and Menomonie Street. According to Eau Claire Police, a trailer fell off of the trailer hitch on a truck.