Motorists across the U.S. are increasingly being met with a roaring noise when they turn on the ignition due to surging thefts of catalytic converters, law enforcement officials say. The devices look ...

Catalytic converters are integrated into the exhaust systems of cars to convert, or turn, the harmful gasses and pollutants from the engine exhaust system into a less toxic state. Catalytic converters ...

It took only a few minutes, late at night, as Harvey Briggs was asleep in his suburban Madison, Wisconsin home. Without a garage, he had a brand new Toyota Land Cruiser parked in his driveway, ...

In the middle of the night, thieves crawl under a row of vans. One by one, they saw off the bulbous metal pollution control devices called catalytic converters. They wrap up in minutes and leave with ...

Law enforcement agencies across Minnesota say they are ready to tap into a new resource meant to help victims of stolen cars and stolen car parts — a centralized database that records sales at scrap ...

Junk dealers will now have to collect information from catalytic converter sellers, if they weren't already, under an amended Kansas scrap metal law signed Monday by Gov. Laura Kelly. Kelly signed ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The owner of a scrap metal business on Dixie Highway wants to make it harder for people who steal catalytic converters to be able to sell them for scrap. In January alone, ...

When Mike Harrop got a call from a West Bridgewater woman whose car had a dangling tail pipe that looked sawed off, he figured she had parked in a state car-pooling lot in that town recently. Harrop, ...

2:02 With metal prices on the rise, thieves target catalytic converters The vice-president of a scrap recycling facility in Moncton says the value of items that get turned in to his business is rising ...