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Emergency responders bid farewell to boy who dreamed of being a - Blueridgenow.com
It was a river of lights streaming for what looked like a mile, yet the procession was silent save for the hum of the fire trucks, cars and ambulances joining the final journey of Garrett Sheehan. The six-year-old son of a firefighter died Monday

Illinois police sell old cars on e-Bay - News-Democrat
MATTOON, Ill. — A central Illinois police force is harnessing the power of e-Bay. The Mattoon Police Department recently put an out-of-service detective car and two squad cars up for sale on the online auction site. And Police Chief Dave Griffith

Car dealers try to survive as economy, sales drop - Lincoln Journal Star
NEW ORLEANS - At this year’s version of the National Automobile Dealers Association convention, survival has passed maximizing profits as the focus of the annual event. So as thousands of dealers from across the U.S. gathered Saturday in New Orleans

Suspect held after shots fired at cars - Raleigh News & Observer
RALEIGH — A man was arrested Friday and charged with shooting at two vehicles while driving on a highway. Charlie Moon Lytle, 27, of Darwin Court is charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, and two counts of

Detroit auto show’s electric promises belie internal combustion - Detroit News
Listening, watching and reading the international media’s reporting on the Detroit car show, you could be forgiven for thinking that we will soon all be zipping around noiselessly in environmentally neutral electric cars. Ford said it will have

Readers describe their first cars - Everything Alabama
Back in the late’50s when I was a kid, a friend of mine and I were cruising the backroads near Brewton in his World War II surplus jeep, returning from a dove shoot late one afternoon when we passed an old, dilapidated farmhouse with a new Cadillac

Chrysler eliminates jobs bank for now - Chicago Sun-Times
NEW ORLEANS—- Chrysler LLC has eliminated — at least temporarily — the controversial “jobs bank” program that gives union workers most of their pay and benefits while they are laid off, according to a union official. The jobs bank will end on

AEBTRI supplies mineral water to drivers blocked at Bulgarian - Focus Infomation
Kulata. The Association of Bulgarian Enterprises for International Road Transports and the Roads (AEBTRI) sends two vehicles loaded with bottles of mineral water for the drivers blocked at the Bulgarian – Greek border checkpoints, Association told

Tennis: Roddick confirms Williams preteen victory over him, says she - MSN UK News
Andy Roddick has laughed off a 16-year-old loss to Serena Williams, saying he was just a skinny 10-year-old while she was “bench-pressing dump trucks.” Williams says on her website her triumph over Roddick when they were preteens training together in

Background: The inside story of Gaza’s blighted border crossings - Jerusalem Post
How to help the Palestinians in Gaza has lately been reduced to the realm of simple slogans aimed at Israel, such as “end the blockade” or “open the crossings.” Karni Crossing has been closed since Hamas’s violent takeover of the Gaza Strip. When

Green garbage dumps? Mexico City vows to try - MSNBC
MEXICO CITY - Mexico City wants to turn one of the planet’s biggest and messiest waste management systems into the greenest in Latin America, if not the developing world. A newly formed Waste Commission is working to build four state-of-the-art

Flemington reborn to keep on rockin’ in the free world - Age
See some of the biggest names in music and who their unlikely twins are - it’s like looking into a mirror! See the strange pics. AS NEIL Young arrived in Melbourne — via private jet — staff were putting the finishing touches last night on the

Builder hopes to rack up sales with new invention - Charlotte Business Journal
Ben Collins couldn’t find the right storage rack to handle the needs of his construction business. So he invented his own. Ben Collins grew sick of hauling cargo too big to fit in today’s pickup trucks. And bigger, gas-guzzling trucks weren’t a

Pakistan reopens NATO supply route - Newsweek
Pakistan reopened a supply route for NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Wednesday after tribesmen ended a three-day blockade. The road through the frontier town of Chaman is one of two main routes into Afghanistan for trucks carrying fuel and

Canadian union riled at U.S. truck deal - United Press International
CHATHAM, Ontario, Jan. 15 (UPI) — The Canadian Auto Workers union is upset the federal government awarded a contract for military trucks to a U.S. manufacturer in Texas. Earlier this week, the Conservative government announced it had awarded a $274

Crackdown on trucks urged as cyclist crushed by cement mixer - Independent
The cordoned-off scene at Harold?s Cross Bridge in Dublin yesterday after a cyclist was killed following a collision with a cement truck CAMPAIGNERS last night called for city restrictions to be imposed on heavy goods lorries following the death of a

NATO supply route in SW Pakistan reopens - Tehran Times
CHAMAN, Pakistan (AFP) – A key route for NATO supply trucks through southwest Pakistan into Afghanistan reopened Wednesday five days after tribesmen blocked it over the killing of a man in a drugs raid, police said. Hundreds of trucks and tankers

Schools closed, traffic delayed around Minn. due to cold - Minnesota Public Radio
That’s the latest advice from the National Weather Service on Thursday, as Minnesota remains trapped in a bitter cold spell. Nearly all of the state is under a wind chill warning, and schools in nearly 200 communities statewide are closing or

The Indiana State Police is banning some large trucks from the Indiana Toll Road because of hazardous weather. Police say oversized steel-haulers and triple-trailer trucks will not be allowed on the highway that crosses northern Indiana until at FirstChoiceAutoFinder

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Dana Motors has added a new brand under its roof: Ford. “We are now Staten Island’s Ford dealership in addition to Lincoln Mercury — so now all the Ford brands are all under one roof,” said Jim Cognetta, owner and operator of FirstChoiceAutoFinder

That’s the latest advice from the National Weather Service on Thursday, as Minnesota remains trapped in a bitter cold spell. Nearly all of the state is under a wind chill warning, and schools in nearly 200 communities statewide are closing or FirstChoiceAutoFinder

CHAMAN, Pakistan (AFP) – A key route for NATO supply trucks through southwest Pakistan into Afghanistan reopened Wednesday five days after tribesmen blocked it over the killing of a man in a drugs raid, police said. Hundreds of trucks and tankers FirstChoiceAutoFinder

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CHATHAM, Ontario, Jan. 15 (UPI) — The Canadian Auto Workers union is upset the federal government awarded a contract for military trucks to a U.S. manufacturer in Texas. Earlier this week, the Conservative government announced it had awarded a $274 FirstChoiceAutoFinder

The National Weather Service has issued a wind chill warning, meaning the combination of very cold air and strong winds will create dangerously low wind chill values. The temperatures will result in frost bite and could lead to hypothermia or death FirstChoiceAutoFinder

The cordoned-off scene at Harold?s Cross Bridge in Dublin yesterday after a cyclist was killed following a collision with a cement truck CAMPAIGNERS last night called for city restrictions to be imposed on heavy goods lorries following the death of a FirstChoiceAutoFinder

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China raises ’07 economic growth, passing Germany - Tehran Times
China raises ’07 economic growth, passing Germany BEIJING (AP) – China surpassed Germany to become the world’s third-largest economy behind the United States and Japan after Beijing on Wednesday raised its estimate of economic growth in 2007

BYD sells 170,000 vehicles in ‘08, to double in ‘09 - HULIQ.com
In 2008, BYD Auto sold 170,000 vehicles, growing by 89% from 2007, and the company will seek bigger sales growth this year, said sina.com today. The company aims to more than double the car sales to 40,000 units this year by launching more new car

UPDATE 2-France will put “a lot of money” into car industry - Reuters
VESOUL, France, Jan 15 - France will put “a lot of money” into aid for the struggling car industry, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday. Sarkozy, speaking in the east of France after a visit to a PSA Peugeot Citroen ( PEUP.PA ) site, said the

European car sales drop the most in 15 years - Marketwatch
LONDON (MarketWatch) — Last year was the worst for European car sales in 15 years, with 2008 sales falling by 8%, a trade group said Thursday. The European Automobile Manufacturers Association, known by its French acronym ACEA, said new passenger

Continental AG Is Studying EU1 Billion Stock Sale (Update2) - Bloomberg
Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) — Continental AG , Europe’s second- largest car-component maker, is considering a stock sale of as much as 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) among options for covering an impairment charge on its takeover of a former Siemens AG

CNET News Image Galleries - CNET News
Want to see what the hot new technology looks like, and how people are using it? Check here for the latest photos and other images from the realms of high-tech and science. Here are CNET Reviews’ 10 favorite items from the past week, including the

France will put “a lot of money” into car industry - Guardian Unlimited
We can’t leave our automobile industry to founder because it would take with it half of the French industry,” he said, referring to electronics, glass, steel, plastics and other businesses supplying the auto industry. He said he was surprised France

Kokolakis & Associates, P.C. - PR.com
John Kokolakis emphasizes his practice in the area of Personal Injury. Specifically, people injured in serious automobile, tractor-trailer, train or motorcycle accidents. Also represented in the area of Personal Injury are clients who have been

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FAYETTEVILLE - A marksman and former Olympic rifleman who is now an Arkansas legislator wants to amend state law so holders of concealed-carry gun permits can stash weapons in their cars while parking on college campuses. Rep. Randy Stewart, a FirstChoiceAutoFinder