Amador County CHP Officer Murder-Suicide Leaves Community In Shock
A California Highway Patrol officer killed his wife in a shopping center, then himself, the Amador County Sheriff's Department said on Tuesday.
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A California Highway Patrol officer killed his wife in a shopping center, then himself, the Amador County Sheriff's Department said on Tuesday.
CBS13 has obtained police dispatch recordings from the CHP officer assigned the stolen squad car, the moment he watched it drive down Highway 50.
Authorities are investigating a fatal crash in Placer County along Interstate 80 late Thursday morning.
The CHP says one of its vehicles was rear-ended by a white Mitsubishi Mirage on eastbound I-80 near Fairfield at around 3:40 p.m.
Authorities say a sheriff's deputy was killed after losing control of his patrol car on a winding, two-lane road along the coast.
Interstate 80 near Chiles Road is back open at following an early morning crash on Tuesday.
A Modesto officer was injured in a crash involving a person suspected of DUI.
A California Highway Patrol rookie killed by a drunken driving suspect in the San Francisco Bay Area was remembered Saturday as a loving family man who also loved his job.
An injured off-road motorcycle rider was rescued by a California Highway Patrol helicopter on Monday.
Authorities say a rider among a group of motorcyclists doing stunts on a California highway died after falling to the pavement while trying to stand on his moving bike.
Authorities are investigating after a suspect allegedly assaulted a California Highway Patrol officer Saturday morning.
A 16-year-old has died and two other teenagers were hurt in a crash along Interstate 80 in Dixon Wednesday night.
A man has been arrested after he allegedly pointed a laser at a law enforcement plane.
Two 19-year-old women helped save the lives of three men whose vehicle crashed into a canal near Lemoore.
A Marine who stopped to help a driver in a rollover crash was struck and killed on Interstate 10 in Southern California.
Investigators say the woman was trying to pass another vehicle in a sedan when she crashed head-on into a big rig hauling tomatoes on Old Highway 99.
California Highway Patrol officers say they recently led "the world's slowest pursuit" on Interstate 80 near Oakland.
California Highway Patrol says the officer who was allegedly run over intentionally by a motorist has been upgraded to good condition.
Authorities say two women are in the hospital after an ATV accident along the Auburn Lake Trails.
California Highway Patrol's Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team is searching for answers after a CHP Officer was stuck and injured by a Fed-Ex truck on Eastbound US 50 at 16th St.
Investigators say Steven Smith-Nimmer, 25, was speeding and lost control of his vehicle. He struck a CHP car heading in the opposite direction and forced another car off the road.
The Northern California woman driving a car that crashed and killed five people last weekend was facing felony drunken driving charges and cruelty to a child stemming from a previous incident.
Officer Michael Ericson was allegedly struck by the motorist on Thursday in what investigators are calling an intentional act.
The California Highway Patrol identified the officer as Michael Ericson, a 17-year veteran with the CHP.
Taylor was finishing managing traffic on March 12 while crews cleared an accident when an SUV struck him.
