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New Auto Defect Report Spells Gloom for Owners of GM and Chrysler Vehicles July 9, 2009. By Gordon Gibb Rehoboth, MA: The new era emerging in the automotive industry will have an impact on issues surrounding auto defects and those encumbered with a defective car. Thanks to a loophole built into the US auto industry rescue package, liability for the defective auto no longer appears to be a worry for the newly-reborn General Motors and Chrysler. Meanwhile, a new report forecasts that more than 3,400 Americans will be injured or killed by a defective GM, or Chrysler vehicle during the...

Gold, after rebounding rapidly from the Dubai selloff, crossed into the uncharted $1200 waters during the day today and is gapping-up to $1213 at this moment.

Students begin research project at Big Springs - By: Nancy Stidham, Special to The Independent PINETOP-LAKESIDE - Hiking the trails from Big Springs along Walnut Creek to Woodland Lake was the assignment in Connie Mayo's language arts class on Friday, Oct. 2. There were about 60 seventh and eighth grade Blue Ridge Junior High students who participated in the field trip. Before the hike students were asked to record their opinions about the possible sale of the park acreage. The students spent the morning hiking from Big Springs to Woodland Park where they ate sack lunches. After lunch, the students...

HOLBROOK - Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick abruptly walked out of a scheduled event Thursday morning in Holbrook after people became upset that she wasn't addressing the crowd as a whole. Kirkpatrick, a Democrat representing Arizona's District 1, announced she would be holding one of her new "Chat with Ann" events at the Safeway store at 10:45 a.m., which she said would make it "as convenient as possible for folks to talk about their concerns and issues." The congresswoman planned to speak to people one-on-one for a period of one hour, but the crowd of about 50 people expected her to address...

A robbery motivated shooting in the Walmart parking lot in Show Low at about 8:40 Monday morning left one person dead and one transported to Summit Health Care. Sgt. Roby with Show Low Police said that at about 8:40 Monday morning a lone shooter confronted two shoppers in the parking lot and then fled the scene in a light colored vehicle. Names of the victims have not been released pending notification of families. One witness who asked not to be identified said as she was exiting Walmart she heard four to six shots and then saw an individual laying on...

05/30/2008 The day McCain showed his colors By: Jo Baeza , The Independent WHITERIVER - It's been nearly 20 years since I sat next to Sen. John McCain in a helicopter flying over the White Mountains, but I remember my impression of the man: a steady gaze, keen intellect and a passion to do what is right. On March 29, 1989, the White Mountain Apache Tribe honored McCain as a warrior and as a United States senator. At the time, I was editor of the tribal newspaper, the Fort Apache Scout. Photographer Bennett Cosay, Stewart Nicholas and I were invited...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A special U.N. human rights investigator will visit the United States this month to probe racism, an issue that has forced its way into the race to secure the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. The United Nations said Doudou Diene would meet federal and local officials, as well as lawmakers and judicial authorities during the May 19-June 6 visit. "The special rapporteur will...gather first-hand information on issues related to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance," a U.N. statement said on Friday. His three-week visit, at U.S. government invitation, will cover eight cities -- Washington D.C., New York,...

Wrong-way driver killed in crash with Greyhound bus POSTED: 9:17 p.m. EDT, March 31, 2007 Story Highlights• Car going south in northbound lane of I-85 hits Greyhound bus • Car driver, a young woman, killed; 20 bus passengers receive minor injuries • Crash jams bus door; panicked passengers crawl out windows • Passenger says bus driver was doing everything possible to avoid collision Adjust font size: MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) -- A car going the wrong way on a divided highway collided head-on with a Greyhound bus early Saturday, killing the driver of the car and injuring 20 other people, police...

This is a letter I just got via email from Dem headquarters. I hope there will be many comments on here about what this says regarding Democrat jobs (if any) being rather non-essential -- not to mention the slack work ethic it expresses. Why do I get mail from them? You could, too, if you'd play a few games with the idiots. Here goes: Dear -------, Four weeks from today, what will you be doing? On November 7th, America will vote. All the polls say that people have had enough. We're poised to win historic victories up and down the...

Girl mauled, killed by pit bulls Breaking: Police make arrests By: Terence Corrigan, The Independent 12/17/2004 Email to a friend Voice your opinion Printer-friendly Annilee McKinnon SHOW LOW – A group of pit bull dogs that have been repeatedly reported for running the streets of a neighborhood west of downtown attacked and killed a 5-year-old girl Monday. The same dogs had attacked and nearly killed another neighbor’s dog two weeks earlier. The dogs’ owner was cited for attacking Stephanie Clark’s dog which was leashed inside her fenced yard. The attack resulted in nearly $600 in vet bills to heal Clark’s...

China's energy, transport shortages to worsen (Updated at 1925 PST) SHANGHAI: Drastic power shortages in China are set to worsen as the creaking rail network struggles to deliver coal to plants scrambling to meet the country's insatiable appetite for energy, officials said Wednesday. "We still see no change in sight or things getting better in this regard," Ma Liqiang, a ranking official of the National Development and Reform Commission, told the China Daily. "The supply is still tight," Ma said. China is in the midst of an electricity crisis as its booming economy creates massive demand that could result in...

PAKISTANI POLICEMAN KILLS CHRISTIAN PRISONER ISTANBUL, June 1 (Compass) -- A Pakistani police constable bludgeoned to death a Christian jailed on blasphemy charges, declaring he “wanted to earn a place in paradise” by killing the alleged “blasphemer.” Samuel Masih died last Friday from severe head injuries inflicted several days earlier by Faryad Ali, a Muslim policeman in his late 20s. In the early morning hours of May 24, the constable entered a Lahore hospital ward where the guarded Christian prisoner was being treated for advanced tuberculosis. Swinging a brick-cutter hammer, Ali hit Masih on the head, despite a policeman posted...

Rewriting 'History' Chinese authorities have angered Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York by censoring her memoir, Living History. China often censors political content in MEDIA newspapers, television broadcasts, films, books and on the Internet, and routinely bans foreign books or films that depict it in a negative light. Recently, however, as part of an effort to show that it is becoming more open, China has been allowing the publication of more foreign books and the distribution of more imported films. But old censoring habits apparently die hard. Clinton says she was "amazed and outraged" to learn that the government-owned...

Informant tips police to potential mass killer By Phillip Swift, Staff Writer A 16-year-old Wickenburg youth with a desire to exceed the numbers killed in the Columbine High School massacre four years ago is in custody after police learned of his intent through a phone call from a concerned citizen. Authorities identified the youth as Mylan Lee Skaggs of Wickenburg. He is currently in custody at the Durango Juvenile Facility in Phoenix. "We dodged a major bullet here," said Chief of Police Tony Melendez, speaking of the informant who called Wickenburg police headquarters this weekend. That person, whose identity is...

Sun May 25, 2:52 PM ET Miss Trinidad and Tobago Faye Alibocus (Left) admires Miss Colombia's Diana Lucia Mantilla's watch at a swimsuit photo session in Panama City ahead of the Miss Universe (news - web sites) beauty pageant, May 25, 2003. Panama is hosting the 2003 Miss Universe pagent, which has a television audience of 600 million viewers from 176 countries. REUTERS/Alberto Lowe a:href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030525/170/46j7c.html"

Dixie Chicks Pose Nude to Answer Critics Reuters to Yahoo! NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dixie Chicks appear nude on the cover of a weekly showbiz magazine in a defiant answer to a backlash over their opposition to the war in Iraq. Thursday's New York Post newspaper carried a reproduction of the Entertainment Weekly magazine picture in which the Grammy-award winning women wore only contradictory slogans painted on their bodies, including "Opinionated," "Traitors," "Saddam's Angels," "Dixie Sluts," and "Proud Americans." "It's not about the nakedness," the Post quotes band member Martie Maguire as saying. "It's about clothes getting in the...

Jang Online Poll Should Saddam Hussein comply with the US ultimatum? Yes No Don't know

<p>SALT LAKE CITY - Sarah Hughes of the U.S. won the gold medal in women's figure skating after a nearly flawless long program vaulted her from fourth place.</p> <p>Irina Slutskaya of Russia won the silver medal and Michelle Kwan of the U.S took the bronze in a close decision.</p>

LONDON: Osama bin Laden, prime suspect behind the September 11 attacks on America, is probably dead and his recent video broadcast looked like the farewell message of a doomed man, a former friend and journalist said on Thursday. "I 99 percent believe he's been killed in the caves of Afghanistan by the very hard bombing," Essam Darez, an Egyptian freelance writer who spent time with bin Laden in Afghanistan between 1986 and 1990, told Reuters in an interview. During four years as a photojournalist covering the Afghan mujahideen's struggle against occupying Soviet troops, Darez said he got to know bin ...

Anger and resentment among some in the Muslim world has been growing at the US military campaign in Afghanistan aimed at toppling the Taleban regime and rooting out Osama Bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda fighters. To these Muslims, the American attacks are an attack on themselves and their religion, something President Bush and other American leaders have tried hard to deny. As a supporter of the US campaign in Afghanistan, I was recently surrounded by fellow Muslims in my office and grilled as if I were George W. Bush’s personal envoy. Out of this experience I have decided to go ...