Archive for June, 2010

Toyota says 270,000 vehicles have faulty engines (AP)

FILE - In this file photo made June 27, 2010, unsold 2010 Toyota Highlanders are seen at a dealership in the west Denver suburb of Lakewood, Colo. Forecasters expect U.S. sales of cars and light trucks to slow in June after months of improvement. It's another sign that people are beginning to doubt the economic recovery with unemployment still high. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)AP – Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday about 270,000 cars sold worldwide — including luxury Lexus sedans — have faulty engines, the latest quality lapse to hit the automaker following massive global recalls.


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Alex hits Mexico’s Gulf coast as Cat 2 hurricane (AP)

Children evacuees look out from a convention center being used as a shelter several hours before the expected arrival of Hurricane Alex, the first Atlantic hurricane of the year, in Matamoros, northeastern Mexico, on the border with Texas, Wednesday June 30, 2010. Currently a Category 1 hurricane, Alex could upgrade to Category 2, with winds of at least 96 mph (154 kph), when it makes landfall south of Matamoros and Brownsville, Texas, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP – Hurricane Alex crashed into Mexico’s Gulf coast as a powerful Category 2 storm Wednesday, spawning tornadoes in nearby Texas, forcing evacuations in both countries and whipping up high waves that frustrated oil-spill cleanup efforts and pushed crude onto beaches.


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Portland police re-open Al Gore sex case

Portland police have decided to re-open a sexual assault case from 2006 involving the former Vice President and a massage therapist.

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Yankees endure two-hit shutout, fall to Mariners

Forget about King James. King Felix earned his share of local headlines last night, too.

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Hurricane Alex makes landfall along Mexican coast (AP)

Sand blows across a tiger dam on a beach as the outer edges of Tropical Storm Alex approach the Louisiana coast in Grand Isle, La., Tuesday, June 29, 2010. The dam is expected to protect the island's beaches from oil that washes ashore from April's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP – Forecasters say the first Atlantic hurricane of the season has made landfall in northeastern Mexico.


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Portland police reopen case involving Al Gore and message therapist Molly Hagerty

It?s heating up for Al Gore.

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World’s largest oil skimmer heads to Gulf spill (AP)

Crews aboard vessels around the drillship Discoverer Enterprise continue operations to minimize the impact from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in this June 28, 2010 handout photograph. Thousands of volunteers and vessels are working together on largest oil spill response in U.S. History. REUTERS/Walter Shinn/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENERGY ENVIRONMENT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSAP – With hurricane-whipped waves pushing more oil onto the Gulf of Mexico’s once-white beaches, the government pinned its latest cleanup hopes Wednesday on a huge new piece of equipment: the world’s largest oil-skimming vessel.


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