A former California Highway Patrol officer from Lodi and his wife are dead, and a Stockton man is critically injured in what police are calling a murder-suicide.

The fatal crash took place about 6:50 p.m. Saturday on National Trails Highway, near Sharon Road, according to the CHP.

Three suspected burglars were killed and two others injured when fleeing police and crashing on the northbound 5 Freeway in Anaheim Wednesday morning, July 16, authorities said. R

A fire that began on a big rig spread to a hillside near the Altamont Pass early Friday and forced a closure in one direction of a freeway, the California Highway Patrol said. Fire crews were at the scene and working to extinguish the blaze.

A big rig fire on the Altamont Pass east of Livermore early Friday morning spread to the nearby hillside, prompting the closure of westbound Interstate 580, according to the California Highway Patrol.