The San Jose Police Department said Mendoza was one of three passengers in a 2006 Ford pickup, driven by an adult male, who was doing doughnuts in a parking lot on the 14900 block of Camden Avenue in South San Jose just before midnight. The crash was called in by a witness, the police department told SFGATE in an email.

Police in San Jose arrested the driver of a pick-up truck who fatally struck a passenger after she was thrown from his vehicle as he did "donuts" in a parking lot Friday night.

A woman who was riding in a pickup truck doing donuts in a San Jose parking lot on Friday night was killed when the truck she fell out of struck her, police say.

Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve was ejected during the top of the ninth inning of Tuesday's game against the San Diego Padres for removing his cleat and sock in protest of a call. Altuve was attempting to demonstrate to plate umpire Brennan Miller that a ball that was deemed fair -- and that had been converted into a ground out to end the top half of the frame in what was a tied game -- had actually been fouled off his foot,

Houston 2B Jose Altuve got himself tossed from Tuesday's game for trying to show umpire Brennan Miller exactly where a batted ball hit him.