Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin indicted for corruption Jan 18th 2013, 18:20 NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A federal grand jury on Friday charged former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin with 21 counts of public corruption, including bribery and fraud related to his dealings with city vendors following the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster. Nagin, who served as mayor from 2002-2010, stirred national controversy after the powerful hurricane broke local flood walls and inundated most of the city, killing some 1,500 people and wrecking tens of thousands of homes. ... | Honda recalls 777,000 Odyssey, Pilot vehicles in North America Jan 18th 2013, 17:53 DETROIT (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co said it is recalling 777,000 late-model Pilot and Odyssey vehicles in the United States and Canada due to a problem with the deployment of driver's side airbags, American Honda said on Friday. No crashes or injuries have been reported in relation to the issue, Honda said. Honda said some driver's side airbags were may have been installed without some of the rivets that secure the airbag's plastic cover. If the rivets are missing, the airbag may not deploy properly, increasing the risk of injury in a crash, Honda said. ... | Family of children allegedly slain by nanny returns home to NYC Jan 18th 2013, 17:44 NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York City family, whose two young children were murdered allegedly by their nanny, has returned home from a cross-country road trip that helped them to "live in the present," they said in a Facebook posting on Friday. The 11-day journey was part of an effort to heal, following the deaths of Leo Krim, 1, and Lulu Krim, 6, who were fatally stabbed on October 25 in their Manhattan apartment, the family said on Facebook. Yoselyn Ortega, the children's nanny, is accused of the murders. ... | Boeing, Sikorsky team up for new US military helicopter Jan 18th 2013, 17:14 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co and Sikorsky Aircraft, a unit of United Technologies Corp, said they were teaming up to develop a next-generation multi-role helicopter for the U.S. military. The strategic teaming agreement, signed January 13 and announced on Friday, reunites two of the biggest U.S. helicopter manufacturers, who often compete for orders but joined forces to build the Comanche, a U.S. Army helicopter program that was canceled in 2004. ... | Alfa Romeo brand to return to U.S. market in late 2013: CEO Jan 18th 2013, 16:11 DETROIT (Reuters) - An Alfa Romeo 4C sports car will be introduced in the U.S. market late this year, the chief executive of Fiat SpA and Chrysler Group LLC said on Friday, adding that further details would come in the next two to three months. "For sure it's coming back this year with the 4C. With the Alfa Romeo 4C," CEO Sergio Marchionne said after a speech to a Detroit businesswomen's group. "We are finalizing the car now, so it should be here this year." Increasing Alfa's sales is a cornerstone of Marchionne's plan to offset Fiat's losses in Europe by 2015. The U.S. ... | Facing challenge from reality TV family, Utah defends bigamy law Jan 18th 2013, 15:58 SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Utah attorneys defended a state bigamy law on Thursday in federal court as necessary to protect women and children from abuse as they sought to fend off a challenge by a polygamist family made famous in the reality TV show "Sister Wives." U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups is poised to decide whether Utah's law is unconstitutionally broad because it bars consenting adults from living together and criminalizes their intimate sexual relationships. That's the contention of Kody Brown and the four women he publicly lives with on the TLC show "Sister Wives. ... | |
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