January 29, 2010 – Toyota Motor Corp. has told employees that it has figured out how to fix a problem with sticking accelerator pedals. The company said in an e-mail to employees obtained by The Associated Press that it presented the remedy to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The memo did not say when […]
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January 27, 2010 – The City of San Diego will begin a rotation next week that will reduce the number of fire crews at about a quarter of its stations. a move that is expected to save $11.5 million annually but leave some neighborhoods without units capable of extinguishing a fire. The brown-out plan —
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January 19, 2010 – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Dorel Asia SRL, of Barbados, is announcing a voluntary recall to replace drop side and non-drop side cribs that pose suffocation and strangulation hazards to infants and toddlers. The drop side hardware can fail causing the drop side to detach from
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January 19, 2010 – Robert Frank Stonebreaker, 53, a prominent Del Mar veterinarian, who walked away from a single-car accident, was found dead several hours later Sunday morning in the driveway of a Rancho Santa Fe home, according to the San Diego Dounty Medical Examiner’s Office. Stonebreaker was the owner and CEO of Animal and
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January 14, 2010 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recommending that the public not consume any varieties of HAPPYTOT Stage 4 and certain varieties of HAPPYBABY Stage 1 and Stage 2 baby foods in pouches distributed by Nurture Inc. The firm is recalling these products because some pouches are leaking or swollen.
January 12, 2010 – Is it possible your self-serve soda could be harboring some unwanted guests? You may want to reconsider filling your own glass at a fast food restaurant – a recent study published in the January print issue of the International Journal of Food Microbiology shows that drinks from soda foundation machines in
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January 12, 2010 – Ford’s Fusion Hybrid midsize sedan took top car honors and its versatile Transit Connect compact van snagged truck of the year at the Detroit auto show. It was only the third time in 17 years that an automaker has won both awards, selected by 49 auto journalists and given annually since
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January 11, 2010 – Pure cadmium is a soft, silver-white metal found naturally in small quantities in air, water and soil. It does not have a definite taste or odor. Cadmium is not mined, but it is a byproduct of the smelting of other metals such as zinc, lead and copper. It is best know
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January 4, 2010 – 14 people died and 21 others were injured early Saturday when a bus carrying agricultural workers and their families plunged more than 300 feet down an embankment off a curving mountain road about 70 miles east of Tijuana. The fatalities were 11 adults, 2 children and an infant, according to the
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