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As GM and Chrysler struggle to survive, Michigan's jobless rate is the nation's highest at 15.2 per cent, its housing market is stagnant, Detroit and its public schools are on the brink of bankruptcy

We’ve heard a lot recently about possible legislation outlawing the use of cell phones and BlackBerrys while driving. That’s not the only time when cell phone use is a problem. Michael Wade of Execupundit has tips about cell phone use. He makes a list of when not to use a cell phone and asks for [...]

Even before the recession hit full force, people who earn low and middle incomes were tapping credit cards to cover basic living expenses, medical costs and other necessities - and driving up their balances in the process.

Caught on Tape: A dash cam video from a sheriff's deputy cruiser shows a 7-year-old boy from Weber County, Utah driving his father's car. He apparently took the car because he didn't want to go to church.

NEW YORK, July 30 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks kept climbing on Thursday after the Treasury Department's record $28 billion auction of 7-year notes attracted solid bidding. Thursday's rally has been driven...

Michigan is a tough place to live and work these days, says Stephanie Boyse, chief executive of Brazeway. The aluminium products supplier made a heart-wrenching decision last year to shut the company's manufacturing facility in Adrian, west of ...

Micron is gearing up its LRDIMM technology, which officials say will give data center servers a 57 percent increase in system bandwidth and three times the memory capacity as current servers using RDIMMs. Driving this need for more memory capacity is the growing use of multi-core processors and such technologies as virtualization, and will become even more important as cloud computing adoption grows. Micron is planning to start mass production of its 16GB LRDIMMs in 2010. - Micron Technology is developing technology designed to increase server memory capacity and improve performance. Micron officials July 30 announced it is producing DDR3 LRDIMMs (load-reduced, dual-inline memory modules) that they say will give servers using the technology up to 57 percent better ban...

States would be required to ban driving while texting or e-mailing under the ALERT Drivers' Act. States that refuse to comply would face the loss of highway funds under the proposed legislation. - Lawmakers unveiled proposed federal legislation July 29 that would mandate states ban the sending of text or e-mail messages while operating a car or truck. States would have two years to pass the ban or risk losing 25 percent of their annual federal highway finding per year that they fail to ...

When Carol Straubel&os;s 14-year-old son was re-building an old electric golf cart in 1989, she found herself driving the boy from town to town in Wisconsin, sometimes as far as 50 miles, in search of batteries, tires and electric motors. 'He was ...

The decline of America’s car industry has hurt the Canadian economy too. Revival depends on making it easier to cross the border—or on seeking markets elsewhereFOR almost a century the fate and fortune of Windsor, Ontario, have been intertwined with those of Detroit, Michigan. General Motors (GM), Ford and Chrysler made cars on both sides of the Detroit River, sending parts and vehicles back and forth at will. Windsorites worked in the car plants, loyally bought the cars, followed American sports teams, and thought nothing of driving over the Ambassador Bridge or popping through the Detroit-Windsor tunnel for a night on the town. So the collapse into bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler has brought Windsor down along with Detroit. A blue-collar city of 273,000 people, Windsor now has the highest jobless rate in Canada (14.4%) and faces an uncertain future. Its decline is visible on Ouellette Avenue, the main commercial artery. On some blocks, more shops have shut down than are sti