Thunderstorms packing strong winds and large hail blew through the Yankton, S.D., area Thursday afternoon, causing considerable damage. WNAX radio reports that the storm dropped 1.17 inches of rain in about 15 minutes in Yankton, and golf-ball-size hail in the …
Parents will be able to track the travels of their teenage drivers under a system being tested by General Motors’ OnStar system. The system, called “Family Link,” lets the owners of cars and trucks equipped with OnStar log onto a …
Volvo Cars, owned by China’s Geely, is recalling 8,406 S80 cars for a potential power steering fluid problem that could increase the risk of a crash, according to a federal safety regulator website. Volvo is recalling the 2007 model year …
A severe thunderstorm spawned funnel clouds and strafed southeast Wyoming with golfball-sized hail. In Cheyenne, the hail shredded trees, dented cars and damaged a handful of private planes at the airport. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports the hail also plugged …
Crews in Little River County are working to remove 31 rail cars loaded with coal that derailed south of Ashdown. The sheriff’s office said Wednesday that U.S. Highway 71 is open, but cleanup of the derailment is continuing. The Texarkana …
Nissan’s plant is busily rolling out the Leaf electric car and other models on a Saturday, having shifted production schedules for an aggressive nationwide effort to fight the power crunch created by a tsunami-crippled nuclear plant. “Setsuden,” or “save electricity,” …
Angry, drunken fans ran wild after the Vancouver Canucks’ 4-0 loss to Boston in the decisive Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, setting cars and garbage cans ablaze, smashing windows, showering giant TV screens with beer bottles and dancing …
Joplin residents trying to rebuild their lives after losing everything in last week’s devastating tornado are finding a lack of transportation to be one of the difficult obstacles they face. City officials estimate the tornado damaged or destroyed 18,000 vehicles. …
General Motors Co is recalling 154,112 of its top-selling Chevrolet Cruze compact cars to check that the steering shaft was properly installed, the automaker said Wednesday. These cars represent all of the Cruze cars built at its plant in Lordstown, …
The Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf got top safety ratings in some of the first-ever tests of electric cars by an insurer-funded research group. Both cars earned top scores for front, side and rear-impact crashes and for rollover crash protection, …