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The California Highway Patrol says a man remains hospitalized with serious injuries after he plunged a vehicle off a treacherous cliff, injuring his two young children and his wife in the 250-foot drop. Dharmesh A. Patel of Pasadena will face charges of attempted murder and child abuse after he's released from a hospital. He was in serious but stable condition on Wednesday and has not yet been cleared by doctors to leave. His 41-year-old wife, 7-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son are also in the hospital. It was not immediately clear whether Patel has an attorney who could speak on his behalf.

The U.S. government's highway safety agency says it's sending teams to investigate November crashes in California and Ohio involving Teslas that may have been operating on automated driving systems. The probes bring to 35 the number of crashes investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration since 2016 in which either Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" or "Autopilot" systems likely were in use. The California crash occurred on Thanksgiving Day involving eight vehicles on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The Ohio crash happened Nov. 18 near Toledo, when a Tesla Model 3 crashed into an Highway Patrol SUV. A message was left Thursday seeking comment from Tesla.