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Many police departments around the U.S. impound the cars of drivers caught behind the wheel without a license.

But starting Sunday, San Francisco plans to abolish that policy, calling it unfair to illegal immigrants.

Mayor Gavin Newsom, police chief George Gascón, and supervisor David Campos (himself a former illegal immigrant) all agree that impounding cars is particularly punitive for undocumented aliens, who are unable get licenses under California law.

Instead, police will give any license-less driver time to call a friend or relative to come drive the car away. The driver will still be cited for driving without a license, however, and...

Call us crazy, but if someone took a mobile phone, a briefcase, or a handheld GPS navigation system out of our car--even if it were unlocked--we'd call that theft.

The police in London's Richmond neighborhood take a different view.

When they see valuables left in plain sight in unlocked cars, they've been removing them and leaving notes for drivers to retrieve them at Twickenham police station.

Police say it's a tactic to tackle thefts from cars, which have risen 40 percent in the last year. And they say just 25 cars were checked, with only a single item removed thus far.

Still, British legal experts say  the practice is dubious, and the...

When we hear "Subaru", we're more likely to think of world rallies than world records. But last Saturday, Subaru of America set a new Guinness World Record for the largest parade of Subaru cars in the world: 339 of them, to be precise.

The Guinness organization even sent an official adjudicator, who gave Guinness World Record certificates to Tom Gehrke, from Subaru of America, and Deputy Police Chief Bob O’Connor, representing the Village of Itasca, Illinois.

The company donated $15 for each car that showed up to PAWS Chicago, which takes in homeless pets, and Salute Inc., a nonprofit group that supports military personnel, veterans, and...