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.

A former California Highway Patrol officer is suspected of killing his wife in Southern California before he died in a shooting that left one other man wounded on Thursday, officials said on Friday.

A former California Highway Patrol officer is suspected of killing his wife in Southern California before he died in a shooting that left one other man wounded on Thursday, officials said on Friday.

A fire that began on a big rig spread to a hillside near the Altamont Pass early Friday and forced an hourslong closure to one direction of a freeway that lasted into the afternoon, the California Highway Patrol said.

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.