PHOENIX (AP) — Three Arizona high school students enrolled in an automotive technology program were killed when a college van went off a highway on the way back from a professional drag racing...

BLUE SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — Toyota Mississippi has donated 10 new model Corollas to Itawamba Community College's automotive technology program to be used for hands-on training.

MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other state officials have issued a "mobility challenge" designed to attract new automotive technology for display and use during the 2020...

GREENWOOD, S.C. (AP) — Last July, in Frisco, Texas, Gerald Sartin realized the problem wasn't limited to Greenwood.

Sartin, the director of Piedmont Tech's automotive technology program, had gone to an annual conference organized by the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence.

Greenwood's auto shop owners are having a hard time finding qualified technicians. At the conference, some statistics were floated that brought home the magnitude of the problem.

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead has authorized a loan of up to $5 million to keep an automotive technology trade school operating in Laramie.

In signing off on the loan Monday for WyoTech, Mead followed the recommendation of Wyoming Business Council. The state Legislature appropriated money for the effort earlier this year.

Founded in 1966, WyoTech was established in Laramie and expanded during the next five decades to include seven campuses nationwide.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ride-hailing service Lyft is partnering with an automotive technology company to deploy a fleet of 30 self-driving cars to the streets of Las Vegas this summer.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and a British government official have signed a memorandum of understanding designed to strengthen the production of advancements in automotive technology and mobility.

Snyder, who is in Europe on an eight-day trade mission, signed the deal with Minister Richard Harrington of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama community college has been awarded a $1.5 million federal grant for its planned automotive technology training center in Decatur-annexed Limestone County.

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — A French automotive technology supplier plans to open a $60 million production facility and bring 300 jobs to the Kansas City area.

Faurecia Interior announced Thursday that it will open a plant in Blue Springs. The company develops and makes interior vehicle and emissions components.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Eric Preston, 36, attached brackets to the chassis of a 1966 C10 pickup in one of the auto shops belonging to Western Iowa Tech Community College.

For the past nine months, Preston and other WITCC automotive technology students have been rebuilding the 50-year-old truck with all-new, state-of-the-art accessories.

"(The customized vehicle) will still have a retro feel of a vintage truck," Preston told the Sioux City Journal. "But it won't drive like one."

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Eric Preston, 36, attached brackets to the chassis of a 1966 C10 pickup in one of the auto shops belonging to Western Iowa Tech Community College.

For the past nine months, Preston and other WITCC automotive technology students have been rebuilding the 50-year-old truck with all-new, state-of-the-art accessories.

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — With her long curly hair, dramatic but elegant makeup and perfect posture, Bianca Garcia appears every bit the beauty queen. Until she starts talking about running diagnostics on a faulty engine or scavenging the junkyard with her grandfather, Ambrose Garcia.