Capping off a troubled year that included the Firestone tire controversy, the departure of CEO Jacques Nasser and declining earnings, Ford Motor Co. reported Thursday its sales dropped 6 percent in 2001 from a year earlier.
The bodies of seven more firefighters pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center have been identified, including three from the same company who were found together in a buried lobby.
Three men replacing guy wires on a cellular telephone tower plunged 100 feet to their deaths after a rope used to hoist them to the top of the structure broke.
The FBI has reversed its advice for computer users trying to protect themselves against serious flaws in the latest version of Windows: Applying the free fix from Microsoft Corp. is adequate, after all.
Afghanistan's new government on Thursday released more than 300 Taliban prisoners, some of whom have spent as long as five years locked up by the northern alliance.
Government regulators have announced that the cost of a round-trip ticket will rise as much as $10 next month as airline passengers begin paying for security improvements.
Swedish automaker Saab announced Thursday it is recalling 6,351 of its 2002 model 9-5 cars to inspect the front-wheel suspension because of a defect that could affect the steering.
The parents of four students killed in the Columbine High School shootings on Wednesday called for a federal investigation of whether a police officer accidentally shot one victim and authorities tried to conceal it.
