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Toyota ‘knew of gas pedal fault in 2007,’ but firm says...
TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp., currently in the midst of a massive recall of vehicles in the United States, Europe...
Tensions simmer in Nebraska meatpacking town
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — Hawa Farah was living in Minneapolis three years ago making $8 an hour at a bakery when her fiance, Hussein Hussein, got a call about good jobs that paid better...
Family link is found between Obama and Scott Brown
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has found another long-lost cousin: Scott Brown, the Republican state senator from Massachusetts who won the Senate seat long held by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy...
U.S. increases military presence near Iran
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has increased the U.S. military presence near Iran and is accelerating installations of anti-missile systems in nearby countries, officials said Saturday, as the White House builds pressure for stern new sanctions against Iran...
South Florida hospitals still accepting new Haiti patients, doctors say
MIAMI — South Florida hospitals are not refusing to accept new trauma patients from earthquake-ravaged Haiti, as U.S. military spokesmen have suggested, prominent doctors said Saturday...
Roeder found guilty of murdering abortion doctor
WICHITA, Kan. — After 37 minutes of deliberation, a jury Friday found Scott Roeder guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller...
White House considering moving terrorism trial out of New York
WASHINGTON — In the face of mounting opposition to the planned New York City trial of several men accused in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Obama administration is considering moving the proceedings...
Longmont’s Habitat for Humanity store robbed
Employees of Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore Home Improvement Outlet in Longmont discovered on Jan. 26 that the store’s safe, containing almost $3,000 in cash and checks, had been stolen. The money in the safe included cash for the store register as well as deposits ...
