Prius

In Alexandria Monday, one thief may have met his match in a man who was looking out for his friend’s car.

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on a neighbor who took on a thief trying to steal a catalytic converter.

A man managed to drive safely out on top of a mudslide and to safety. Kim Baldonado reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018.

Desionne Franklin described the moment he and his girlfriend are inside a Toyota Prius, trying to escape a powerful river of mud, rocks and water as something out of a movie.

Toyota Motor Corp. recalled 340,000 gas-electric hybrid Prius cars around the world Wednesday, 212,000 of them in Japan and 94,000 in North America, for a defect in their parking brakes.

Toyota announced Wednesday it is recalling 1.43 million vehicles for defective air bags and another 2.87 million vehicles for faulty fuel emissions controls. Toyota Motor Corp. said it has not received any reports of injuries or fatalities related to either recall. Some 932,000 vehicles are involved in both recalls, so the total number of affected vehicles is 3.37 million.

Caitlyn Jenner will not be charged criminally in a chain-reaction crash on Pacific Coast Highway that killed a woman in February, prosecutors said Wednesday.