Platinum, a metal that helps craft aesthetically pleasing jewelry, also finds use in a car's exhaust for entirely non-aesthetic reasons. The catalytic converter is required on nearly every car to ...

Platinum has been considered a precious metal for a couple thousand years now, with folks in both hemispheres using it to show off their conspicuous consumption since about 700 BCE. This is partly ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- There was a surprising find early Friday inside a crashed car in the Longan Square neighborhood. The crash happened Friday morning near Kedzie and Belden avenues. Video shows what ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The catalytic converter is a non-serviceable part that can last well beyond 100,000 miles; or, in some cases, the entire life of the vehicle, ...

Clay Hayner tells Inside Edition he does not regret his decision to confront a thief attempting to steal his converter after hearing about the death of "General Hospital" star Johnny Wactor. More than ...

NPR’s Leila Fadel speaks with Benjamin Preston of Consumer Reports, about why catalytic converter thefts remain a nationwide problem. An actor who starred in the soap opera "General Hospital" was shot ...