WASHINGTON DC - The US Department of Transportation has received numerous complaints from Toyoda owners claiming sudden deceleration concerns. The majority of the complaints state that the car stalls without warning when its fuel gauge shows empty.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Next week the Obama administration plans to vote on a radical bill aimed at reducing the unemployment statistic which is hovering around 9.8 percent.
The proposal will eliminate Friday and create a 6-day a week calendar. Each da...
NEW ORLEANS, LA - For a spill now nearly half the size of Exxon Valdez, the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster is pretty hard find.
Satellite images show an estimated 4.6 million gallons of oil has pooled in a floating, shape-shifting blob o...
Four of Paris's most renowned fashion houses are previewing designs reflecting the dangerous world that we live in today. Each couture house has added its own interpretations for their upcoming fall collections based on the bomb or blast suit look n...
CHICAGO, IL -- A Forest Lakes accountant, Mortimer Schwartz, is suing a plastic surgeon for medical malpractice claiming the doctor caused him a permanent condition of erectile maximus syndrome (PMS).
After seeking medical assistance for his ere...
NEW YORK, NY -- After marathon negotiations throughout the week with Mayor Bloomberg's office, the Port Authority and New Jersey's Governor Christie, Attorney General Erica Holder's office is expected to make a major announcement on Monday. Sources c...
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - A Utah woman has been sentenced to 30 days at home with an ankle monitor for blindfolding her husband and promising him a surprise before hitting him in the head with a hammer three years ago.
Her defense - practicing for her...
LONDON -- A British woman is now suffering from persistent sexual arousal syndrome after accidentally falling from her Nintendo Wii Fit board. The condition sexually arouses her whenever she feels slight vibrations from a cell phone or other mechanic...
MIAMI, FL. -- A female TSA supervisor has been suspended without pay for misusing the recently installed airport body scanner. Sources say the as yet unnamed supervisor digitally photographed most of her male employees with its new high-tech security...
Abu Dhabi - In a first of its kind marketing scheme, Peppy Cola the American cola company has installed a vending machine that actually returns gold when it receives a deposit of any competitor's soft drink. By depositing the competitor's bottled dri...
LOUISVILLE, KY -- The world's most popular chicken restaurant chain, Kenny's Fried Chicken, more widely known as KFC, has finally succumbed to the seven years of pressure from animal rights groups to change its chicken menus. The negative publicity g...
AUSTIN, TX -- Texas Governor Rick Perry, is expected to sign the bill voted on by the legislature to outsource border security when it reaches his desk this week. In the first of its kind in the nation, the controversial bill is expected to be a doub...
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND - Immortalized in lyrics and verse, the "White Cliffs of Dover" are an icon of English patriotism and nostalgia - a familiar landmark for returning travelers akin to the Statue of Liberty for Americans.
That is why there is cons...
JERUSALEM - The appearance of a grey whale off the coast of Israel has stunned scientists, in what was thought to be the first time the giant mammal has been seen outside the Pacific in several hundred years.
The whale, which was first sighted off...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- The Sierra Club, reputedly America's oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization has begun a major campaign today to lobby Congress to ban traditional in ground burials.
Their presser states tha...
WASHINGTON, DC - Economic incentives to provide inexpensive healthy food and better educational performance of 70 immediate steps that can reduce U.S. childhood obesity and provide better grades, a White House task force recommended in a report on Tu...
KANSAS CITY, KS -- It's the largest-ever study of tornadoes. More than 100 researchers involved with the VORTEX2 (Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 2) project will deploy a flotilla of instruments across the Great Plains...
NORMAN, OK -- At least five people have died and around 50 injured eight of them seriously, as a result of a series tornadoes that devastated several areas of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, according to local authorities. The tornado destroyed a large n...