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DETROIT, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ - General Motors will introduce several vehicles among its Cadillac, Saab and Saturn brands at the 2008 North American International Show. GM's NAIAS portfolio emphasizes design and technology that deliver capability and performance while reducing environmental impact. The show opens to the public on Jan. 19.

Northcentral Wisconsin is filled with tons of small towns and a few larger ones here and there, and while many people think an advantage to living outside of a big city is living without drug problems, it may be time to reconsider.

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BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) _ A Burlington woman has pleaded guilty to writing a bad check for a plasma screen television that she later traded for $400 worth of crack cocaine.

REDDITCH residents concerned about their health can take advantage of a cheap health check being offered by Tesco Pharmacy.

Adam Levine, lead singer of Maroon 5, summed up the reason his hitmaking pop group agreed to appear at the GM Style event Saturday night: "They said: `There will be hot girls and cars,' and we said `Yes!'"

The Columbus Museum of Art has a large collection of American and European art. Paintings from the Impressionism, German Expressionism and Cubism are displayed in the galleries. Special exhibits change frequently.

The Statesman Journal reported that Keizer, once again, is considering establishing a complete public library.

Most of the phone calls, letters and e-mail that came my way last week sounded a theme similar to that of Don Beck from Ledyard.

Forest Anderson couldn't believe that his next-door neighbors were wanted by federal agents on cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking charges.

Such are the unpredictable moments of political history, and they serve as a reminder that politics is not mere science, but human. And New Hampshire, returning to its contrarian nature, proved that again in a grand and potentially consequential way.

I'm having some trouble with my pc, around lunch time today it blue screened so I thought I'd turn it down to stock settings for a bit, it booted up fine but after about 15 minutes it blue screened again, and this has been going on since, and at one stage I wasn't even able to load vista before it crashed, so I reset the bios this worked and I was able to get into vista, for about half an hour then it blue screened again...

When you dare to open up a TV set or a computer monitor, you may just see a maze of wires, circuits and components.

The New York Times list of "The 10 Best Books of 2007" came out a few weeks ago. As usual, no science books made the cut. In fact, since the list's inception in 2004, no science book has been included. This year, the Times introduced another list, "100 Notable Books of 2007." Even with a 10-fold increase in number, only one science book - Jerome Groopman's "How Doctors Think" (Houghton Mifflin, 320 pages) - made the list.

Giorgi Targamadze, an anchor and head of the Imedi TV’s political programs, said he was quitting the television stations and suggested he might make a political comeback.

If any dominant theme emerges from the North American International Auto Show in Detroit this year it will be that all automakers will have a fleet of environmentally friendly cars on display, say industry observers.

WOBURN - From an unmarked cruiser in a quiet corner of the parking lot, Woburn police Detective Lieutenant Bob Rufo trained his binoculars on a man who had just parked a luxury car near the entrance to one of this city's chain hotels. The man, clad in a blazer, carried a cellphone but no luggage and walked swiftly to the door.