WASHINGTON - Jim Shuker, who tests vehicles for Toyota, says he feels so strongly about quality that he believes he personally failed by not finding the company's acceleration problem.
HARRISBURG - A former state legislative aide testifying in a public-corruption trial was cross-examined about his sex life yesterday.
The testimony from former House Democratic chief of staff Mike Manzo was seemingly tangential to the case, in which former Democratic Whip Mike Veon and three aides are defending themselves against charges of diverting state government money for political gain.
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats yesterday circulated a jobs bill that's light on new initiatives on boosting hiring and heavy with provisions sought by lobbyists for business groups, doctors and the satellite-broadcasting industry.
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ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Gov. David Paterson, defying calls from even fellow Democrats to drop out of the race for a full term, said yesterday that he would leave only if the voters turned him out through the ballot box, or "in a box."
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TORONTO - Canadian authorities are looking into unsolved murder and rape cases after charging the commander of Canada's largest Air Force base with the murder of two women and the sexual assault of two others.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. - A California man acting as his own lawyer in a case charging him with five murders played a video clip in court yesterday showing him as a winning contestant on "The Dating Game" to prove his innocence in one of the killings.
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WASHINGTON - President Obama said yesterday that Iran remains on an "unacceptable" path to nuclear weapons, despite its denials, and that the U.S. and like-minded countries will soon produce a set of punishing sanctions against the Islamic republic.
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WASHINGTON - Michelle Obama yesterday unveiled "Let's Move" - her national public-awareness campaign against childhood obesity, a problem she says concerns her both as first lady and as a mom.
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HAVANA - Relatives in eastern Cuba claim to have held a 125th birthday party for a woman named Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez, but it is not clear if she is really that old.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The new attorney for 10 American Baptists charged with child kidnapping said yesterday he believes that they had paperwork to take 33 children out of the country after Haiti's devastating earthquake.
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JERUSALEM - The women tattooed his name and portrait on their bodies and gave their children his name - Savior.
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WASHINGTON - Could this turn into something more than political theater? President Barack Obama's televised dialogue with Republican lawmakers on health care, promised for later this month, has the makings of an entertaining exchange.
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TORONTO - The commander of Canada's largest Air Force base, who once flew dignitaries around the country, has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two women.
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