Street takeovers aren’t new. But the flavor we’re seeing now – brazen, viral, and defended in some corners of the internet – feels different. Automotive creator Alex Martini says the phenomenon has ...

A wild street takeover in Southern California ended with a car erupting in flames over the weekend. Video showed a large crowd gathered to watch several vehicles doing burnouts near Lakewood Boulevard ...

In 2023, Eduardo Erik Martínez drove onto the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles. A row of drivers slammed on their brakes near the 9th Street exit, stopping traffic completely. Then other drivers began doing ...

Just before 2 a.m. on Sept. 14, engines roared in a Landover, Maryland, shopping center parking lot as a crowd gathered to watch souped-up cars spin in tight circles under the glow of streetlights.

Illegal street takeovers — often organized on social media — have surged nationwide, prompting new task forces and tougher state laws in Maryland, Connecticut, Virginia and elsewhere to curb ...

State Rep. Steven Xiarhos spent decades as a cop on Cape Cod. And when he looks at the “street takeovers” that hit four communities across Massachusetts last weekend, he doesn’t mince words. “You need ...

A Connecticut teen has been arrested and charged with lighting a Boston police cruiser on fire nearly two months after a ...

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz on Tuesday released photos of two men wanted “in connection to an assault” that took ...