(Corrects to reflect that 2008 Prius was part of one of Toyota's recalls)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The driver of a 2008 Toyota Prius said his car uncontrollably accelerated to over 90 miles per hour on a San Diego County freeway before a California Highway Patrol officer helped him stop ...More
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - The number of U.S. households with a net worth of at least $1 million jumped 16 percent last year after dipping sharply during the financial crisis, an industry consulting group said on Tuesday.
Households with a net worth of $1 million or more, excluding their ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A senior executive with a major Atlanta-based energy services company has been reported missing during a business trip to New Orleans, and police said on Monday they are searching for him.
Douglas Schantz, the president of AGL Resources' wholesale energy-trading unit Sequent Energy Management, was last seen ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The judge overseeing the liquidation of Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff's investment firm has allowed victims unhappy with his ruling on how to calculate their losses to appeal directly to a federal appeals court.
Monday's ruling by Bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland means shorter waits for victims ...More
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Police expect to interview Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in the next few days over a sexual assault allegation made by a Georgia woman, a local police chief said on Monday.
The announcement followed a report by a 20-year-old college student that she was sexually assaulted early on ...More
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers estimate that an 18 percent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults' calorie intake enough to lower their average weight by 5 pounds (2 kg) per year.
The researchers, writing in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine on Monday, suggested taxing ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man U.S. prosecutors say received bombmaking training in Somalia from the Islamist militant group Al Shabaab has been brought to New York to face charges, the U.S. Attorney's office said on Monday.
Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, who was arrested in Nigeria and brought to ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether constitutional free-speech rights protected anti-gay protests by members of a Kansas church at funerals for U.S. military members killed in Iraq.
The high court agreed to consider whether the protesters' message and picketing was protected by the ...More
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Rains and warmer weather this week could trigger flooding in portions of the Midwest grain belt, prompting concerns of delays to field work ahead of seeding the corn and soy crops, a forecaster said on Monday.
Farmers in top grain states like Iowa and Illinois normally begin planting ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A California man angry about a denied insurance claim was arrested and charged with extortion after he sent an email to New York Life threatening to damage its business, federal prosecutors and a company spokesman said on Monday.
Anthony Digati, 52, of Chino, California, also threatened to ...More
