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Toyota Recalls Prius, Hybrids To Fix Brake Problems
Toyota says it is recalling about 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems. It's the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker.
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Kicked Out of 2006 Winter Olympics, Lund Returns To Skeleton
U.S. skeleton racer Zach Lund was barred from the last winter Olympic games in Italy, after testing positive for a banned, allegedly steroid-masking hair restoration drug. Now, he's hoping for redemption in Vancouver.
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Sen. Ben Nelson To Help Thwart Labor Nominee
The Nebraska Democrat says he will join with Republicans to oppose the nomination of Craig Becker to serve on the National Labor Relations Board. Nelson is the first Democrat to come out against the nomination. His decision likely means that Democrats cannot find the 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP filibuster of the nominee.
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Rep. Murtha Remembered As Military Advocate
Democratic Congressman John Murtha died Monday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., after complications from gallbladder surgery. He was 77. Murtha represented southwestern Pennsylvania for 36 years. Most of that time he was the top Democrat on defense appropriations — moving billions of dollars and sending as much as he could to his home district.
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Super Bowl Beer Ad Benefits Chicago Business
Miller High Life used its Super Bowl ad-buy this past Sunday to shine a light on some small businesses across the U.S. Tim's Baseball Card Shop on Chicago's North Side was one of them. The response has been overwhelming.
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Toyota Squandered Its Reputation For Quality
Toyota has stumbled badly in managing its current recall crisis. The company has been accused of withholding information, changing its story and was less than aggressive in dealing with the various problems. Assuming the company can solve the technology and safety problems, how does Toyota regain public trust?
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For Telecommuters, It's Not About Going To Work
Some companies have no traditional office at all — and they like it that way. At one multimillion-dollar company, all 40 employees telecommute. The firm weeds out job applicants who look down on working from home.
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Safety Risks At Regional Airlines Detailed By PBS
The crash of Continental Flight 3407 last February — in which 50 deaths were attributed to pilot error — sparked an inquiry that found safety problems. Among them: long hours and low pay at regional carriers, where some pilots become captains with less than a year of experience.
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Criminal Probe Is Launched In Conn. Plant Blast
Authorities looking for the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a Middletown power plant under construction launched a criminal investigation, saying they could not rule out criminal negligence as the cause. The powerful explosion blew apart large swaths of the nearly completed 620-megawatt Kleen Energy plant Sunday.
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Expectations Low For Obama's Health Care Summit
Critics call the president's plan to hold a summit between Democrats and Republicans on Feb. 25 a purely political gambit designed to give the appearance of momentum for the health bill. Even supporters of the summit see room for common ground with Republicans on only a few narrow issues.
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Boeing Engineer Gets 15 Years In Economic Espionage
A Chinese-born engineer convicted in the United States' first economic espionage trial was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for stealing sensitive information on the U.S. space program with the intent of passing it to China.
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Digital Tears: Breakups And Social Networks
Separations are hard enough. But then there's the question of what to do when it comes to the social networking ties you share with your former significant other. To break or not to break? It's a question many people are grappling with as they examine their digital personas.
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Ill. Democrats Seek Lieutenant Governor Candidate
Democrat Scott Lee Cohen dropped out of the Illinois lieutenant governor race after facing accusations that he had abused his ex-wife and held a knife to the throat of a former girlfriend. The governor, who would have been his running mate, and one of the state's senators had called on Cohen to step aside. The party will try to fix the damage to its statewide ticket.
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Texas Nurse On Trial After Reporting Doctor
A nurse in Texas is standing trial for reporting a doctor she thought was practicing bad medicine. Prosecutors have charged 52-year-old Anne Mitchell with making inflammatory statements about a doctor at a rural hospital in Kermit, Texas. She faces up to 10 years in prison. Mitchell says she was just trying to protect her patients. Kevin Sack of <em>The New York Times</em> says much of the case stems from local politics.
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After Saints Win, Trash Piles Up
Thousands of ecstatic fans packed New Orleans' French Quarter on Sunday to watch the Saints win their first Super Bowl. One measure of just how happy Saints fans were is the garbage. Calvin Jones, French Quarter Supervisor for SDT Waste and Debris, says it was like a small Mardi Gras.
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Magdelena, Sonora is an hour south of Nogales, Arizona and far removed from many of the problems found along the U.S./Mexico border. But the final resting place of Spanish missionary Father Kino is beginning to face its own challenges. Click 'Listen' to hear the first of many KJZZ reports from the border.
