A crime wave that swept across Minnesota and the nation suddenly looks more like a ripple. To the relief of car owners and police, catalytic converter thefts are trending down for the first time in ...

Cars making loud noises are never a good sign and are a particular hassle when the cause of the noise is a missing catalytic converter. Catalytic converters are regularly targeted car parts, sometimes ...

In 2022, thefts nationwide were 540% higher than all of 2020, public data company BeenVerified found. Thieves are slipping under cars to swipe catalytic converters, those pollution-control gadgets ...

JEFFERSON CITY - The Emerging Issues committee held a hearing Wednesday evening on three bills that change regulations on catalytic converters. House bills 532, 555, and 751 all aim to make it more ...

Catalytic converter thieves prefer raised trucks and the cover of darkness to do their work. A recent report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), a non-profit organization dedicated to ...

More than 150,000 catalytic converters were stolen between 2020 and 2022. A nationwide crime trend plaguing car owners has gained renewed focus amid the unsolved killing of "General Hospital" actor ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Catalytic converters play a vital role in reducing the amount of harmful emissions a car produces, and most modern combustion vehicles are legally required to have one. However, they contain various ...

Catalytic converters are essential parts of a vehicle’s exhaust system, stopping harmful emissions from being released into the air. These components contain precious metals like platinum, palladium, ...

For more than 30 years the vast majority of vehicles sold in Britain have included an expensive component in the exhaust system — the catalytic converter. This emissions-reducing device has now become ...