Residents of contaminated town wary of government efforts
By MARTHA WAGGONER In the little town of Navassa, work has always been hard and dirty. From antebellum rice plantations to Jim Crow-era fertilizer factories and more recently, a massive…
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Tragedies befall American heroes since French train attack
By DON THOMPSON and JULIE WATSON Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, who helped stop a terror attack on a French train over the summer, was stabbed and seriously wounded Thursday…
Greek town glimpses mass transit future: driverless buses
By DEREK GATOPOULOS There’ll be no arguing with the driver on this bus: the rides are free and there’s no driver anyway. Trikala, a rural town in northern Greece, has…
Auto experts: Top managers probably knew of VW cheating
By TOM KRISHER and MICHAEL BIESECKER Auto industry insiders strongly suspect the emissions cheating scandal at Volkswagen is much wider and reaches higher up the corporate ladder than the company…
Strong support for guns in town shocked by college shooting
By JEFF BARNARD Hunting deer, elk and bear in the surrounding hills and fishing for salmon and steelhead have strong followings in southern Oregon’s timber country, made famous by Western…
VW: ‘Nothing has changed’ at Tennessee plant despite scandal
By ERIK SCHELZIG Inside Volkswagen’s only U.S. assembly plant in Chattanooga there’s little hint of the diesel emissions cheating scandal embroiling the German automaker around the world. Sparks fly off…
Google’s driverless car drivers ride a career less traveled
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Fresh out of college, Brian Torcellini dreamed about getting a job writing about surfing. Instead, he wound up in a dusty, dimly lit garage near Google’s Silicon…
Shell to cease Alaska offshore Arctic drilling
By DAN JOLING Royal Dutch Shell will stop drilling for oil and gas in Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast following disappointing results from an exploratory well backed by billions in…