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Firefighters have contained a vegetation fire on Altamont Pass in far eastern Alameda County Saturday night to less than two acres, Cal Fire reported in social media.

A Florida school bus plowed through a fence and into a backyard pool after a collision, but no one on board was hurt.

A driver died after slamming into a Caltrans car on Interstate 880 in Hayward, the California Highway Patrol said.

One of four large trees that toppled Monday in Pasadena fell on the car of a woman who had just left home and was driving to work. The oak crushed the car’s roof. The driver ducked down and was able to escape unharmed through the driver’s side window.

Two men accused of robbing a Northern California armored car are also suspected of carrying out a similar heist in Southern California.

The first U.S. self-driving car fatality took place in May when the driver of a Tesla S sports car using the vehicle’s “autopilot” automated driving system died in a collision with a truck in Florida, federal officials said Thursday. The government is investigating the design and performance of Tesla’s system. Preliminary reports indicate the crash occurred when a tractor-trailer rig...

Sprint car driver James Campbell Jr. died Friday night in a crash at Williams Grove Speedway.