Word: pickup
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...spring Joseph Bales and Helene Lemay, a French-Canadian couple, found their 10-week-old daughter Muguet dead in her crib. Convinced that they might be accused of killing her, they disposed of the child's body in a wooded area 100 miles from home, then proceeded in their pickup truck to New York City, where they told police that their daughter had disappeared in Central Park. In the two-day search that followed, helicopters, bloodhounds and scuba divers scoured the park and its waterways until the couple broke down and confessed. They had thought it would be enough...
After a two-year federal investigation of 4.5 million pickup trucks, Transportation Secretary Federico Pena accused General Motors of knowingly manufacturing defective trucks with exposed fuel tanks that can explode and burn in side-impact crashes. The Department of Transportation has scheduled a public hearing in December to decide whether the nation's No. 1 automaker should recall its line of pickups built between 1973 and 1987. In a 1988 redesign, GM moved the fuel tanks inside the trucks' protective body frames...
...feds came down hard against the nation's top automaker, targeting General Motors' controversial full-size pickup. Transportation Secretary Federico Pena announced today that C and K series models of that truck made from 1973 to 1987 pose an unreasonable safety risk. The location of the gas tank outside of the main-body rails makes the vehicles vulnerable to fires in side-impact collisions, officials say. The finding could lead to a government-ordered recall later this year of the 4.5 to 6.3 million such vehicles that are on the road, which could cost $1 billion. The government action...
There would be little time for that. Two months after receiving his Pulitzer, Carter would be dead of carbon-monoxide poisoning in Johannesburg, a suicide at 33. His red pickup truck was parked near a small river where he used to play as a child; a green garden hose attached to the vehicle's exhaust funneled the fumes inside. "I'm really, really sorry," he explained in a note left on the passenger seat beneath a knapsack. "The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist...
...Braamfonteinspruit is a small river that cuts southward through Johannesburg's northern suburbs -- and through Parkmore, where the Carters once lived. At around 9 p.m., Kevin Carter backed his red Nissan pickup truck against a blue gum tree at the Field and Study Center. He had played there often as a little boy. The Sandton Bird Club was having its monthly meeting there, but nobody saw Carter as he used silver gaffer tape to attach a garden hose to the exhaust pipe and run it to the passenger-side window. Wearing unwashed Lee jeans and an Esquire T shirt...