WASHINGTON [AP] — Toyota Motor Corp. recalled 2.17 million vehicles in the United States on Thursday to address accelerator pedals that could become entrapped in floor mats or jammed in driver’s side carpeting, prompting federal regulators to close its investigation into the embattled automaker.
Credit card holders are facing fewer interest rate hikes and forking over sharply less in late fees.
Developers are courting a new class of upscale condo buyers in Crown Heights, as gentrification marches east from what has been traditionally known as “Brownstone Brooklyn,” as The Journal reported Friday.
In a short and terse statement the Coca Cola company called the ‘revelation‘ of its secret ingredients containing alcohol, false.
For 125 years, Coke’s secret recipe has remained one of the most heavily guarded trade secrets in the world. Now a group of accidental soda sleuths say they’ve stumbled across a list of its ingredients.
Hundreds of woman turned out to support the annual KSCVK auction.
POSTVILLE, IA — A federal judge who participated in controversial court hearings after the huge immigration raid in Postville says the 2008 legal proceedings were “a travesty.”
We were just informed by a Head Judge at one of the TVB offices that cell phone convictions in NY would carry 2 points starting later this month.
We live just two short blocks from the old New York State National Guard Armory, in Brooklyn. One hardly sees any activity near the Armory. When you do see something, you say something, as suspicion inclines you to call the authorities.
A spate of shooting attacks on law enforcement officers has authorities concerned about a war on cops.
At least 31 people were killed and more than 100 injured on Monday in a suicide bombing at Russia’s biggest airport, Russian news agencies reported.
NEW YORK [AP] — It was a miserable morning in New York, rain falling heavily and a 30 mph wind that made holding an umbrella difficult. Yet a man walked briskly up Fifth Avenue, balancing his umbrella and dodging pedestrians as he texted from his smart phone.
Yisroel Dovid and Malky (nee Reizes) Osdoba (Crown Heights)
The number of U.S. homes receiving a foreclosure filing will climb about 20 percent in 2011, reaching a peak for the housing crisis, as unemployment remains high and banks resume seizures after a slowdown, RealtyTrac Inc. said.
An 8-year-old boy in Oklahoma has been rescued after getting his tongue stuck to a metal pole after he licked it as part of a dare.
As thousands of Brisbane residents pack up and evacuate in the face of waters from Australia’s worst flood in three decades barreling down on the Queensland state capital, Jewish leaders in the coastal city are cautiously optimistic that their historic synagogue might be spared.
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