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  • Automakers Finding Many Customers Now Appreciate Simplicity

    DEARBORN, MI (WWJ) – After years of putting more and more features on computer screens, car companies are finding out that customers like to ';keep it simple.'; Ford says it will soon start adding old fashioned buttons and knobs to its audio systems. This comes as the company takes a closer look at some of the customer complaints involving ';MyFord Touch.'; The word ...

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  • Road Test 2013 Toyota Avalon

    PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – It looks like Toyota may have finally figured out a way to make the Avalon, well, cool. In previous incarnations of Toyota’s take on the big American family car, Toyota put in a lot of functionality, a lot of value and a lot of reliability — and that’s all well and good — but you gotta bring style and soul to the table if you want to go up ...

  • Man Charged With Sex Trafficking For Second Time In Cook County

    CHICAGO (STMW) – A man previously convicted of sex trafficking in Cook County has been charged again, this time for allegedly kidnapping a Minnesota woman and bringing her to Chicago to work in the sex trade. Myrelle Lockett, 20, is charged with felony counts of aggravated trafficking in persons, involuntary servitude and kidnapping, according to a statement from the Cook County ...

  • Bernstein Wade’s Selfishness Nearly Sinks Heat

    (CBS) The worst possible reason to take a shot is because you think it's about time you did. The NBA is full of such "my turn" guys, who are usually found on teams somewhere between middling and miserable. They fill up the regular-season box scores, make a more-than-comfortable living, and are often the ones in the postgame locker room looking at the stat sheet while others ...


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Movie Review

The Burning [DVD]

The Burning [DVD]

Everybody has to start somewhere, and for Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the independent producer/distributors who founded Miramax Pictures and helped reignite the fire of American independent cinema in the early 1990s, it was a cheap Friday the 13th-knockoff called The Burning. Pro ... ...

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  • VIDEO The LeBron James Headband Game

    James lost his signature accessory with just over 9 minutes left in the fourth quarter, got a dunk on that very play and never replaced the headband the rest of the way. He finished with 32 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, and the Heat rallied from a 13-point second-half deficit to beat the San Antonio Spurs 103-100 in overtime in Game 6 of the NBA ...

  • The Good Ol’ Days When Gas Was 93 Cents Per Gallon

    ATLANTA (WAOK) – When I started driving, gas was 93 cents per gallon. I could fill my tank with $10 and have change for chips and a drink. Today, $10 will get you to the next gas station. The national average for a gallon of gas today is $3.62 per gallon. Help is on the way…or is it? Automobile manufacturers and our government are looking for ways to make the automobile more fuel ...

  • Coach Q Quiet On Hossa Injury

    BOSTON (AP) -- Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville didn’t want to talk about the injury that forced him to scratch forward Marian Hossa from the Stanley Cup finals against the Boston Bruins. And why not? ';I think that’s self-explanatory,'; Quenneville said, once again declining to explain the secrecy that is as much a part of the NHL culture as playoff beards and ...

  • Sporty New Corolla Aimed At Youthful Buyers

    DETROIT (AP) – Toyota is giving the Corolla a sportier look and more gadgets, a recognition by the world’s biggest automaker that the under-50 crowd wants more than just reliability in a compact car. The world’s largest automaker rolled out the 2014 version of America’s top-selling compact Thursday night at a splashy event in Santa Monica, Calif., hoping to shed the old ...

  • Police Search Home Of Patriots’ Aaron Hernandez In Possible Homicide

    NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- State and local police spent hours at the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Tuesday night as another group of officers searched an industrial park about a mile away where a body was discovered the day before. Police at the scene and prosecutors would not comment on the actions while Sports Illustrated, citing an unidentified source, ...

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