(AP) — The owner of a new western Massachusetts ice cream shop says his delicious dishes are "a taste to die for." Mirisis, who already owns a restaurant in town, tells westernmassnews.com (http://bit.ly/22TjvIg ) he loves taking his three daughters out for ice cream, but it's always been hard to find a place.
Volkswagen took a $18.28 billion charge related to the diesel emissions cheating scandal, forcing it to slash its 2015 dividends and post a deep loss.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — China's Ministry of Justice has sent back a lawsuit in which thousands of U.S. homeowners in six states say a Cabinet-level agency should pay for damage to their homes from defective drywall made in China. The ministry says it won't serve the legal papers because the agency is immune to such lawsuits and the legal service would infringe on China's sovereignty.
BERLIN - Five German automakers have agreed to recall a total of 630,000 diesel vehicles in Europe following an investigation into their emissions levels, officials said Friday.
BERLIN (AP) — Five German automakers have agreed to recall a total of 630,000 diesel vehicles in Europe following an investigation into their emissions levels, officials said Friday.
VW has acknowledged using special software to rig U.S. emissions tests and offered to pay substantial fines and compensations to American owners of affected diesel vehicles. While such technology is legal, investigators found that the temperatures at which the emissions treatment systems were throttled didn't appear to be justified in all cases, so the five manufacturers agreed to voluntarily recall those vehicles.
The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/1VpMd4d ) reports that 24-year-old Michelle Lee Harris, of Topeka, admitted Thursday to reduced charges of attempted kidnapping and aiding a felon. Prosecutors said he removed a sleeping girl from her mother's Topeka home in 2014 and transported her in a car trunk.
Emilia Clarke walks the red carpet at the opening of the Refugee Exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography on Thursday (April 21) in Century City, Calif. The 29-year-old actress was joined at the event by Mindy Kaling, James Marsden, and celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels and her fiancee Heidi Rhoades. PHOTOS: Check out the latest [...]
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Gun bills would help vets publicly challenge FBI background checks
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) on April 19 introduced the Senate companion of the Protecting Gun Rights and Due Process Act, noting it would help nearly 200,000 veterans from potentially losing their right to keep and bear arms.
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BEIRUT - The Latest on Syria's civil war (all times local):
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With low oil prices driving massive layoffs across America’s oil fields, workers in Texas are looking to greener pastures. Rig hands, pipe fitters and equipment haulers are increasingly finding jobs within the Lone Star State’s solar power sector, the Wall Street Journal reported this week. “People joke about how it is the new boom,” Servando Sendejo, an oil field engineer, told the newspaper.
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Carnival said Cuba-born passengers will be able to travel on its cruise ships sailing to the country from the U.S., with a first voyage expected to take place May 1.
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NEW YORK, April 22 (UPI) -- Sentiments about an emerging balance in energy markets helped add positive pressure to the continuing rebound in crude oil prices.