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1 hr ago | www.bloomberg.com | JJFADS

Toyota getting further in the Hole

Orintal Toyota has a long road to travel. Reports suggest they will post the largest loss of all automakers for the fiscal year.

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Related Topix: Toyota Motor, Automakers

4 hrs ago | www.instantriverside.com | AutoPaul

General Motors says it will repay government loan in June

General Motors Co., which accepted $6.7 billion in government loans, says it expects to return the money to the government by the end of June.

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Related Topix: Automakers, General Motors

7 hrs ago | Detroit Free Press

GM finance chief to aid international unit

It's official: General Motors' Chief Financial Officer Ray Young is being reassigned.

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Related Topix: Detroit, MI, Detroit Metro

11 hrs ago | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Good News/Bad News/Good News For Disenfranchised Dealers

Last week, we told you about General Motors' "Comprehensive Plan to Address Dealer Concerns" , in which GM essentially said, "Okay, dealers: we'll explain our criteria for cutting you from our network, and if you think you were treated unfairly, we'll go to arbitration.

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Mon Dec 14, 2009

Consumer Reports

Coming soon: Toyota Prius Plug-in hybrids by the thousands

Toyota announced at the LA Auto Show that it would begin leasing 150 plug-in Priuses in California next year.

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Related Topix: Toyota Prius, Hybrid Vehicles, Toyota

NewsCenter 25

U Of M Reports On Teen Drug Abuse

President Barack Obama's drug czar is releasing results of the University of Michigan's annual report on teen drug abuse.

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Related Topix: Michigan

AutoWeek

Honda to offer second-gen ElementAlthough the Element has been a disappointing seller, Honda ...

A picture of the front view of an orange Honda Element. Honda Element: A second chance.

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Related Topix: Honda Element, Honda, Honda CR-V, Automakers, Honda Motor Co

Forbes Autos

The last, best chance: UN climate conference opens

The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the last, best chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, Activism, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought

Chicago Sun-Times

Prominent LA attorney fatally shot at his home

A prominent attorney died Tuesday after he was shot in the head outside his California home.

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Sun Dec 13, 2009

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Police arguing over security at Ravenstahl election party

George Trosky takes the oath administered by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl during a promotional ceremony.

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Related Topix: Pittsburgh, PA, Pittsburgh Metro

Chicago Sun-Times

Vehicle strikes Edgewater light pole, motorist dead

A 69-year-old man who died after the vehicle he was driving was rear-ended and crashed into a light pole Tuesday night in the North Side's Edgewater neighborhood has been identified.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Aides: Obama is pressing to ease credit again

President Barack Obama's economic advisers are talking tough about the banks ahead of his meeting with heads of financial institutions.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Houston voters elect 1st openly gay mayor

City Controller Annise Parker made history Saturday by being elected Houston's first openly gay mayor, seizing 53.6 percent of the vote in the hotly contested race.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Houston, TX, Transgendered

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Heisman Trophy: Tide's Ingram strikes a pose

Mark Ingram completed the trophy case at Alabama, delivering the first Heisman to a school that boasts one of the richest histories in college football.

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Related Topix: Mark Ingram, Sports, Stanford University NCAA, NCAA Sports, Stanford Cardinal NCAA Football, NCAA Football, Toby Gerhart

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Falcons DT Babineaux charged with drug possession

Atlanta Falcons coach Mike Smith says Jonathan Babineaux's arrest Thursday night for felony possession of marijuana will not affect his struggling team.

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Related Topix: Sports, NFL Football, Atlanta Falcons, Jonathan Babineaux, NFL Players

Sat Dec 12, 2009

AutoSpies.com

Volkswagen Tiguan Track Avenue breaks cover

Volkswagen is extending its Tiguan model range with a special edition: the Tiguan Track & Avenue.

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Forbes Autos

Accused terrorist bridged two different worlds

Part American and part Pakistani, the Chicago man accused of conspiring in the bloody terrorist attacks in Mumbai has followed a twisted trail through two different worlds.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, World News, India,

NewsCenter 25

Detroit mom charged in Ohio crash that killed 2 kids

ELYRIA, Ohio - Authorities in Ohio say a Detroit mother was driving 88 to 103 mph when she crashed her minivan this summer, killing two of her children.

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Related Topix: Cleveland Metro, Family, Elyria, OH, Kids

Forbes Autos

Al-Qaida denies killing civilians in Pakistan

Al-Qaida issued a new English-language video Saturday denying it was behind a series of bombings in Pakistan that have killed hundreds of civilians, calling such attacks un-Islamic. U.S.-born al-Qaida operative Adam Gadahn, who commonly delivers the organization's English messages, said the extremist network was being framed for the bloodshed by ...

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Related Topix: Pakistan, Asia,

Chicago Sun-Times

2002 fire at same Streeterville building killed one

This morning's fire at the Plaza on DeWitt condo building recalls a 2002 fire at the same building--a blaze that killed a woman and saw heroic acts by Chicago's firefighters.

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Related Topix: Fire

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