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Toyota was asked in 2007 to consider installing software to prevent sudden acceleration

Los Angeles Times U.S. News - March 14, 2010 - 4:00am
The automaker began installing the safety feature, known as brake override, only this January after a widely publicized accident involving a runaway Lexus ES that killed four people near San Diego.

Federal regulators in 2007 asked Toyota Motor Corp. to consider installing software to prevent sudden acceleration in its vehicles after receiving complaints that vehicles could race out of control, company documents show.


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Wind, rain knock out power to 450K in Northeast

AP U.S. News - 50 min 28 sec ago
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- Strong winds and heavy rain pounded parts of the Northeast on Saturday, knocking out power to more than 450,000 customers, diverting international flights and toppling a boom crane at an Atlantic City casino construction site, injuring one police officer....
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Obama promise: Brighter education futures for kids

AP U.S. News - 50 min 33 sec ago
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries....
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Thousands mourn death of Southern Calif. teen

AP U.S. News - 1 hour 7 min ago
POWAY, Calif. (AP) -- Thousands of teachers, classmates and neighbors filled a high school football stadium Saturday to honor a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered in a shallow, lakeside grave, allegedly killed by a registered sex offender....
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Despite brashness, Bunning a hero back home in Ky.

AP U.S. News - 1 hour 13 min ago
HEBRON, Ky. (AP) -- Irascible Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning has been a pariah among his congressional colleagues. Back in the conservative swath of northern Kentucky he calls home, though, he's being heralded as a hero....
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Utah GOP leader resigns after hot tub confession

AP U.S. News - 2 hours 54 min ago
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century ago when she was a teenager....
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Utah GOP leader resigns after hot tub confession

AP U.S. News - 2 hours 54 min ago
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century ago when she was a teenager....
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Thousands mourn death of Southern Calif. teen

AP U.S. News - 3 hours 6 min ago
POWAY, Calif. (AP) -- Thousands of teachers, classmates and neighbors filled a high school football stadium Saturday to honor a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered in a shallow, lakeside grave, allegedly killed by a registered sex offender....
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Sen. Reid's wife leaves hospital's intensive care

AP U.S. News - 3 hours 45 min ago
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife has been transferred out of a Virginia hospital's intensive care unit and is improving after she was seriously injured in an accident on an interstate highway near Washington....
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Sen. Reid's wife leaves hospital's intensive care

AP U.S. News - 3 hours 45 min ago
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife has been transferred out of a Virginia hospital's intensive care unit and is improving after she was seriously injured in an accident on an interstate highway near Washington....
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Obama promise: Focus on getting kids to college

AP U.S. News - 3 hours 58 min ago
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries....
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Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot

AP U.S. News - 4 hours 52 min ago
DENVER (AP) -- Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist....
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Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot

AP U.S. News - 4 hours 52 min ago
DENVER (AP) -- Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist....
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Native Hawaiian government may become reality

AP U.S. News - 5 hours 4 min ago
HONOLULU (AP) -- Their kingdom long ago overthrown, Native Hawaiians seeking redress are closer than they've ever been to reclaiming a piece of Hawaii....
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Native Hawaiian government may become reality

AP U.S. News - 5 hours 4 min ago
HONOLULU (AP) -- Their kingdom long ago overthrown, Native Hawaiians seeking redress are closer than they've ever been to reclaiming a piece of Hawaii....
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Native Hawaiian government may become reality

AP U.S. News - 5 hours 4 min ago
HONOLULU (AP) -- Their kingdom long ago overthrown, Native Hawaiians seeking redress are closer than they've ever been to reclaiming a piece of Hawaii....
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Native Hawaiian government may become reality

AP U.S. News - 5 hours 4 min ago
HONOLULU (AP) -- Their kingdom long ago overthrown, Native Hawaiians seeking redress are closer than they've ever been to reclaiming a piece of Hawaii....
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US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting

AP U.S. News - 5 hours 9 min ago
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme....
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US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting

AP U.S. News - 5 hours 9 min ago
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme....
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US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting

AP U.S. News - 5 hours 9 min ago
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme....
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