General Motors Co.'s board begins a two-day meeting in Detroit on Tuesday with European labor organizations pressing for a decision on the fate of its European unit Opel, where thousands of German jobs are on the line.

A small aircraft plummeted into an Oklahoma park and burst into flames on Saturday after hitting a guide wire from a communications tower, killing all five people on board, investigators said.

A man shot his estranged wife, son and 2-year-old grandson to death and critically wounded his pregnant daughter-in-law at their rural Louisiana home, then killed himself as police tried to pull over his car 20 minutes later, authorities said.

Ford Motor Co. launched production of its new model Transit Connect in Romania on Tuesday, two years after it took over a state auto maker in the country.

Last night we brought you first photos of the McLaren MP4-12C , the super car successor to the vaunted McLaren F1 .

Well over half of nearly 1,400 Palestinians killed in Israel's Gaza war were civilians, including 252 children younger than 16, a leading Israeli human rights groups said Wednesday, challenging Israel's claim that most of the dead were militants.

For those with beer budgets and champagne tastes, Fiat's performance tuner, Abarth, and Ferrari have reportedly paired up on a special version of Fiat's 500 hatchback - the 695 Tributo Ferrari.

At the same time, Afghan officials released new returns that give President Hamid Karzai 54 percent of the vote with nearly all ballots tallied, enough to avoid a run-off unless large numbers of tainted ballots are ultimately thrown out.

There's a lot of competition to be seen as the world's greenest automaker a ' just look at the branding efforts surrounding the Toyota Prius or the Chevrolet Volt for examples a ' but if you look at the way an automaker designs, builds and recycles its products, then BMW is the top dog.

Since its introduction in 2006, the Volvo C30 has been known for that rear end. Now the 2010 model gets a new front fascia designed to match that "unique" ass-end. Also, "Orange Flame Metallic" body paint and white wheels.

"Buy American" resonates strongly with new car shoppers - 81 percent of respondents looking to buy a new car are likely to consider a domestic brand, according to a nationally representative survey by Consumer Reports .

Despite the tough economy, officials with the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon say contributions and pledges from this year's Labor Day event totaled nearly $60.5 million.

Milwaukee police said Monday that they arrested a man connected to the slayings of nine women dating back to 1986 by using a DNA sample he provided just last week.

Wednesday, September 02, 2009 at 12:19 a.m. S aginaw A P olice are investigating a shooting where two people were shot.

Three people, including at least two females, were shot on a Woodlawn porch early Friday on the South Side.

Gunmen killed a state congressional candidate and his wife and two sons in their home Saturday in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco, in southern Mexico.

How did so many regulators get so much wrong? A new government watchdog report says the Securities and Exchange Commission should have discovered Bernard Madoff's billion-dollar Ponzi scheme.

Police say a driver of a prisoner van has been killed and several others were injured, three critically, after the van carrying 12 people drove off an interstate embankment.

An airstrike by U.S. fighter jets that appears to have killed Afghan civilians could turn into a major dispute for NATO allies Germany and the United States, as tensions began rising between them Sunday over Germany's role in ordering the attack.

Sales are booming. Inventory is thin. All good, except for one thing: Many dealers still aren't getting paid.

General Motors Co. will no longer include the silver "GM" corporate logo on its vehicles in a move to emphasize the four core brands that survived the automaker's bankruptcy.

After what seems like an eternity, the launch of the 2010 Audi RS5 is almost upon us.

General Motors Co. advisers are recommending the board consider spurning a German-backed sale of its Opel unit to retain a bigger presence in Europe and Russia, a person familiar with the discussions said.

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Despite Toyota 's image as the world's greenest automaker, the company that brought us the Prius - totem of the environmentally conscious - has fallen behind in the race for the all- electric car .

A few weeks ago, we brought you sketches of a new small Chevrolet car for the South American market known as the Agile .

It's been eight months since last we spied the updated Ford C-Max, and my, how things have changed.

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BERLIN -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that General Motors Corp. needs to make a decision soon on the future of its Opel unit, and that she hoped for progress in the coming week.