The Michigan International Speedway has offered its track-which is known for hosting NASCAR races-for testing technology that will enable cars to communicate with another, effectively rendering them incapable of crashing into each other.

In a press conference held earlier this week, Michigan Department of Transportation officials said the initiative, “Connected Vehicles”, will provide automakers and research [...]

WASHINGTON – Chief Warrant Officer James Brad Smith broke five ribs, punctured a lung and shattered bones in his hand and thigh after falling more than 20 feet from a Black Hawk helicopter in Baghdad last month.
While he was recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, his doctor suggested he add acupuncture to [...]

WASHINGTON – Responding to reports of shoddy sanitation practices and inspections, federal health officials have opened a criminal investigation into the Georgia peanut-processing plant at the center of the national salmonella outbreak.
The Obama administration on Friday pledged stricter oversight of food safety to prevent breakdowns in inspections.
Officials say Peanut Corp. of America sold tainted peanut [...]

DAVOS, Switzerland – The CEO of megascreen producer Imax Corp. said he was confident the movie business would remain “fairly recession-proof” and that his company would benefit this year from the release of the new “Star Trek” film and the latest “Harry Potter” epic.
Richard Gelfond said the Canadian company planned to release as many 10 [...]

WASHINGTON – The Republican Party chose the first black national chairman in its history Friday, just shy of three months after the nation elected a Democrat as the first African-American president. The choice marked no less than “the dawn of a new party,” declared the new GOP chairman, former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele. Republicans [...]

WASHINGTON – Another of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet nominees has run into tax problems.
This time it’s former Sen. Tom Daschle, chosen to lead the new president’s health reform efforts. Daschle recently filed amended tax returns to report $128,203 in back taxes and $11,964 in interest, according to a Senate document obtained by The Associated Press.
Previously, [...]

PHILADELPHIA – The former sales manager for the Philadelphia Soul arena football team is suing club owner Jon Bon Jovi and his partners for nearly $125,000 he says he’s owed.
Joseph Krause of Jenkintown alleges that rock singer Bon Jovi and other team officials told employees they would receive two weeks of severance pay. The Arena [...]

NEW YORK – Kelly Rowland says she will always be a part of Beyonce’s family, but she no longer will be managed by the superstar’s father.
Rowland and Matthew Knowles announced Wednesday that he is bowing out as her manager. He’s guided her career since she was kid, when he put her in Destiny’s Child along [...]

WASHINGTON – Massive deficits could force the post office to cut out one day of mail delivery, the postmaster general told Congress on Wednesday, in asking lawmakers to lift the requirement that the agency deliver mail six days a week. If the change happens, that doesn’t necessarily mean an end to Saturday mail delivery. Previous [...]

WASHINGTON – Mass layoffs involving 50 or more workers increased sharply last year, and large job cuts appear to be accelerating in 2009 at a furious pace.
Boeing, Pfizer, Home Depot and other U.S. corporate titans have announced tens of thousands of job cuts this week alone.
The economy is likely to continue to shed jobs for [...]