FROM SAN GABRIEL TRIBUNE:  Seventeen-year-old Steven Ortiz is fairly sure he is the only student at Charter Oak High School who drives a convertible Porsche to school.

And, to the surprise of some of his friends, it doesn’t belong to his parents.

Steven started with an old cell phone and eventually traded up to his impressive ride.

It [...]

FROM THE AP:  Germany’s autobahns are renowned for average speeds well in excess of 80 miles (130 kilometers) an hour. But the average dropped near zero Sunday as tens of thousands of people sat at a 37-mile table for a cultural celebration titled, appropriately enough, “Still Life.”

Cars were strictly verboten.

“Attention on the A40,” a radio [...]

FROM THE AP:  Harold Voelker tucked away the ownership title and memories of his prized 1956 Ford F-100 pickup after it was stolen in 1972 in Los Angeles.

  Both were dusted off when authorities told Voelker they had found the vehicle in Modesto — 38 years after it went missing.

“I go to car shows all [...]

FROM THE DAILY NEWS:  A man whose truck was stolen just followed the noise, grateful he didn’t fix the muffler.

“I heard what I thought was my truck start up” at 5 a.m. Tuesday, said Alex Hansen, 27, who lives in the 600 block of 24th Avenue in Longview. Clad only in shorts, barefoot, he ran [...]

The Body shop estimate for the 2010 Porsche Turbo was $11,000 plus taxes. Porsche’s deductible on the car was $10,000. THE GLOBE AND MAIL

FROM THE GLOBE AND MAIL:  Some moments are lived backwards. The great ones run through your mind like a favourite movie. Then there are the [...]

FROM THE AP:  A man who crashed his Mercedes through the gates of a California jail while driving drunk will spend some serious time behind bars.

Matthew Van McDaniel, 25, of Los Alamitos was sentenced in a Newport Beach courtroom Friday to nine years in state prison for driving recklessly while under the influence of alcohol [...]

 FROM DAILYMAIL:  Police today unveiled what appeared to be their latest weapon in the fight against crime – a pedal-powered patrol car complete with siren and blue flashing light.

The new five-gear vehicle, which has a top speed of 20mph, cost over £1,000, has full Hampshire Constabulary livery and a roll bar to protect the driver [...]

 FROM THE SEATTLE TIMES:  With a recent spike in thefts of older Honda passenger cars, local police in South King County are giving away the auto-theft prevention tool, the Club.

The Clubs are available to owners of 1991-1998 Honda Accords and Civics. It’s part of a state initiative to reduce to motor vehicle thefts.

The Washington Auto [...]

 FROM AFP:  An outraged German Porsche driver hand-delivered an eight-year-old boy to the police after he and a friend pelted his beloved car with dandelions, authorities said Tuesday.

The 47-year-old man from Hittfeld in northern Germany has been charged with false imprisonment, police said, after he bundled the terrified prankster into his car, furious at what [...]