In a crime that shocked a California Delta community, a man and woman were charged with hate crimes Tuesday in connection with launching Molotov cocktails into the home of a black family in Antioch and spray-painting the residence with a swastika and racial slurs, police said. Roy Charles Sorvari, 27, of Antioch and Christyne Gail McDaniel, 25, of Brentwood face charges of arson and conspiracy to commit murder, mayhem, torture and assault with a deadly weapon, according to the Antioch Police Department. Sorvari and McDaniel were also charged with hate crime enhancements. They have each been ordered held on more than 1 million bail. The attack "sent shockwaves in the city of Antioch," Police Chief Allan Cantando said at news conference Tuesday.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the new autopilot software might have prevented the crash that killed a man in Florida in May. Model S dash displays what the car sees. SAN FRANCISCO - Tesla Motors is grappling with yet another fatal crash involving one of its electric Model S sedans, an incident in China that preceded the May death of a customer in Florida. Back in January, a Model S driven by 23-year-old Gao Yaning of Hebei province crashed into a street sweeper at highway speed. The news was first reported by Reuters Wednesday citing China's CCTV.

The Hobos gang came calling for Keith Daniels on an April evening three years ago. Daniels, a key witness in a drug trafficking case against the gang's feared leader, had been relocated by authorities to the southern Chicago suburb of Dolton for his safety. But when the 27-year-old father pulled into his driveway with his wife and her two young kids, a gunman walked up and opened fire through the windshield, according to court records. Daniels bailed out of the car and tried to run but was quickly cut down by more than two dozen bullets as the children, ages 6 and 4, screamed in the backseat. After the assailant jumped into a waiting SUV and sped off, Daniels' wife called 911 to report her husband had just been shot.

The Justice Department is investigating Wells Fargo & Co.'s improper sales tactics, according to a person familiar with the probe. Federal prosecutors in San Francisco and New York are in the early stages of an investigation that could lead to criminal or civil charges, the person said Wednesday. Last week, the San Francisco bank agreed to pay 185 million to settle investigations by Los Angeles City Atty. The sales tactics, first uncovered by the Los Angeles Times in 2013, involved thousands of bank employees opening as many as 2 million accounts that customers did not authorize in order to meet aggressive sales goals. The local and federal investigations described some of the steps employees took to open the accounts as fraudulent and illegal.

The teenage woman whose allegations of sexual abuse at the hands of several police officers rocked the Bay Area law enforcement community will return to California to testify against them, her attorney said Wednesday. Jasmine Abuslin, 19, of Richmond, was freed from the Martin County Jail in Florida on Wednesday morning after accepting a plea deal to settle allegations that she bit a security guard during a violent clash at a drug rehabilitation facility last month. Pamela Price, an Oakland civil rights attorney who is representing Abuslin, said Abuslin now plans to return home where she will serve as the key witness in the prosecution of at least seven current and former East Bay law enforcement officers. "We're going home as soon as we can," Price said at a news conference in Stuart, Fla. Abuslin, who has previously used the pseudonym Celeste Guap, claimed during a television news interview earlier this year that she had sex with at least a dozen Oakland police officers, and that some of the encounters occurred while she was underage. She also accused officers of leaking information to her about planned prostitution raids in exchange for sex.

Authorities say they have made an arrest in the arson fire that heavily damaged the Florida mosque Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen occasionally attended. St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office spokesman Bryan Beaty confirmed in an email Wednesday that an arrest had been made but wouldn't disclose any details until a news conference scheduled for later that evening. The Islamic Center of Fort Pierce sustained extensive damage in a fire set late Sunday on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. The blaze also coincided with the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha. The fire burned a 10-by-10-foot hole in the roof at the back of the mosque's main building and blackened its eaves with soot.

As cars become more computerized, they're also facing a greater risk of being hacked. That's why Volkswagen is founding a new cyber security company devoted to protecting next-generation vehicles. On Wednesday, the automaker said it would partner with a former Israeli intelligence agency director to jointly establish a new company, called Cymotive Technologies. It's unclear how much Volkswagen is investing in the new firm, but security experts have been warning that internet-connected cars and self-driving vehicles could one day be a major target for hackers. Even older cars from Volkswagen are vulnerable.

Earlier this month, tens of millions of Indian workers staged a one-day general strike that unions billed as the biggest work stoppage in human history. By the unions' count, 180 million workers stayed home to demand a slew of changes to labor laws, including establishing a 270 monthly minimum wage for unskilled laborers and ensuring social security for every worker. The 24-hour strike cost the Indian economy up to 2.7 billion, by one estimate, and affected electricity, mining, telecommunications, banking and insurance operations in several states. It was the latest salvo in an escalating battle between India's leading public-sector trade unions and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, which they accuse of pursuing a pro-business agenda while ignoring workers' rights. The unions represent several million workers in a country of 1.25 billion people.

Former Israeli President Shimon Peres' condition was showing slight improvements after he suffered a major stroke, with his physicians saying Wednesday that he had regained consciousness and squeezed his doctor's hand, while the nation rallied in prayer and support for the 93-year-old elder statesman and Nobel Peace laureate. Dr. Yitzhak Kreiss, director of the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv, said Peres' condition remained serious Wednesday afternoon, 24 hours after the stroke. But he said Peres' neurological signs were improving. He said that Peres, who had been placed in and out of a medically induced coma, was regaining consciousness from time to time and reacting to stimulation. Peres remained on mild sedatives and a respirator, Kreiss said.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department acknowledged force was used to restrain a carjacking suspect who lost consciousness and died Tuesday inside a McDonald's restaurant in East San Gabriel. The man was identified as 38-year-old Timothy Shannon McMillan, who was a transient, according to Ed Winter, spokesman of the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner. McMillan's cause of death has not been determined, and an autopsy is pending. Deputies confronted McMillan after a violent carjacking in the 8700 block of Garvey Avenue in Rosemead. In that incident, McMillan approached a parking enforcement officer as she was writing a ticket at 5:25 a.m., yelled at her and punched her in the head, the Sheriff's Department said.