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  • A Lime Squeeze Metallic 2012 Ford Fiesta SE (above left) and an Ingot Silver Metallic 2012 Ford Focus Titanium 5-Door Hatchback are among Ford's current lineup of vehicles. (Associated Press)

    Automakers accelerate into new year

    After hitting a 30-year low in 2009, U.S. auto sales are poised for a second straight year of growth in 2012 - the result of easier credit, low interest rates and pent-up demand for cars and trucks created by the Great Recession.


  • **FILE** A Lime Squeeze Metallic 2012 Ford Fiesta SE (left) and an Ingot Silver Metallic 2012 Ford Focus Titanium 5-door hatchback are seen Aug. 31, 2011, at the Maroone Ford of Miami dealership in Miami. (Associated Press)

    U.S. auto sales poised for another year of growth

    After hitting a 30-year low in 2009, U.S. auto sales are poised for a second straight year of growth in 2012 — the result of easier credit, low interest rates and pent-up demand for cars and trucks created by the Great Recession.


  • California to stop towing vehicles by unlicensed drivers; checkpoints nabbed illegals

    Delfino Aldama was fixing a customer's brakes this month when his smartphone chimed with a text message that tipped him to a police checkpoint more than an hour before officers began stopping motorists. The self-employed auto mechanic frantically called friends with the location and drove an alternate route home.


  • IndyCar announces 15-race schedule, may add 2 more

    The IndyCar schedule will have a different look in 2012.


  • Economy Briefs

    The Federal Reserve on Tuesday moved to toughen capital requirements for the country's largest banks, saying their size and stretch could threaten the overall financial system.


  • Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez

    Bail denied to suspect in Obama shooting try

    A U.S. District judge on Monday ordered the man charged with attempting to assassinate President Obama to remain behind bars until his trial.


  • Inside the Beltway

    It's colossal, it's stupendous: The official "Obama for America" campaign store far exceeds any merchandising efforts among Republican presidential hopefuls.


  • Bill Atkinson, an agribusiness owner, asks a question during a meeting between state agriculture officials and farmers on Tuesday in Mobile, Ala. At the meeting, farmers discussed their concerns that the state's tough new immigration law has driven off the laborers they will need to plant their crops in the spring. (Associated Press)

    GOP leaders hit by backlash on immigration law

    Alabama Republicans who pushed through the nation's toughest law against illegal immigrants are having second thoughts amid a backlash from big business, fueled by the embarrassing traffic stops of two foreign employees tied to the state's prized Honda and Mercedes plants.


  • France's Pagenaud to drive for Schmidt in IndyCar

    Sam Schmidt Motorsports has hired Simon Pagenaud to drive in the 2012 IndyCar season.


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