Posts From King World News
– General Motors will settle with 124 families over deaths resulting from faulty ignition switches that were installed in the 2.6 million small cars recalled last year, including the Chevrolet Cobalt and HHR, Pontiac G5 and Sky, and Saturn Ion and Solstice. This marks a somber end to a yearlong review of fatality and injury claims stemming from defects the automaker hid for 13 years. – The settlement fund was set up in June 2014 weeks
– Operating the sort of test fleet we do, it is with fair regularity that we encounter the occasional cracked windshield, bent wheel rim, or chipped hood. If Michigan’s deteriorating infrastructure isn’t crumbling and subsequently being launched by other motorists at the fronts of our test cars, it’s blowing apart other folks’ tires, pieces of which are then launched at our test cars. (Our Cadillac CTS Vsport found this out the
-The trade calls it a “funeral coach” but everyone else just calls it a hearse, the last car you’ll ever ride in. Those who take that ride tend not to buy any more cars, though, so the nostalgic impulse that fuels much of the collector car scene rarely takes hold. Little wonder, then, that the Concours d’Elegance of America at Saint John’s in Plymouth, Michigan, could boast that it was
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At least seven people were killed and about 20 others were kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants in an overnight raid on a village near Cameroon’s northern border, a senior military officer said on Tuesday. Tchakarmari, the village targeted early on Tuesday, lies north of Maroua, where dozens of people were killed in a series of suicide bombings by the Nigerian Islamist group last month. The officer, deployed as part
Greece expects to conclude a multi-billion-euro deal with international lenders within two weeks, with the drafting of an accord set to start on Wednesday. A bailout worth up to 86 billion euros ($94.5 billion), needs to be settled by Aug. 20 if Greece is to pay off debt of 3.5 billion euros to the European Central Bank that matures on that day. “The first phase of negotiations ends today and
The family of Sandra Bland filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday against a Texas trooper, a sheriff’s office and her jailers, accusing them of being responsible for the woman’s apparent suicide in a county jail.
Fourteen of the 17 Republican candidates show up, but they’re hamstrung by the format.
A circus tent collapses as a severe storm rakes a northern New Hampshire fairground.
Three U.S. airlines have banned the transport of lion, leopard, elephant, rhino or buffalo killed by trophy hunters, in the latest fallout from the killing of Zimbabwe’s Cecil the lion last month. American Airlines said on Tuesday it would join Delta Airlines and United Airlines in banning the transport of animals known in Africa as the “big five”, coined by hunters because they are the hardest to kill on foot.
