Nov 8 - By Associated Press
A former Albuquerque auto dealer, faced with an ailing economy and difficulty getting credit for his dealership, says he turned to gambling last year in a bid to salvage the business.

Oct 27 - By Tom Krisher, AP Auto Writer
Chrysler has been sending its dealers back to class, reminding them about the importance of courtesy and communication: Always return phone calls. Limit wait times. Open doors for customers.
Aug 19 - By Associated Press
A former member of the Syrian military has pleaded innocent to conspiring to sell military-grade weapons to a U.S.-designated terrorist group in Colombia.
Aug 13 - By Associated Press
Brooklyn residents are riled over a performance artist who's been delivering bags of fake crack. The Daily News reported that Nate Hill makes the deliveries dressed in a white tuxedo and a dolphin headpiece. He shows up between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., like a real drug pusher.

Aug 11 - By Michael Casey, AP Environmental Writer
Thai prosecutors announced Thursday they plan to challenge a lower court ruling that rejected a U.S. request to extradite suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.

Aug 7 - By Todd Richmond, Associated Press Writer
An online weapons dealer who sold a gun or accessories to three mass killers, including a man who opened fire at a Pittsburgh-area health club this week, said Friday that any of the shooters could have just as easily found what they wanted at a Wal-Mart or another store.
Aug 7 - By Bree Fowler, AP Auto Writer
A group of car and truck dealers have banded together to offer their own sales incentives in hopes of getting drivers who don't qualify for the "cash-for-clunkers" program to buy vehicles.
Jul 4 - By Kelsey Abbruzzese, Associated Press Writer
A poster in Jim Tarbox's office at his North Kingstown Chrysler Jeep dealership declares: "Challenge: The harder the course, the more rewarding the triumph."
Jun 15 - By Associated Press
An 81-year-old man has drawn a five-year sentence for illegally selling the powerful prescription pain reliever OxyContin. Rayfield Dupree was sentenced Friday. Dupree, who turns 82 next month, originally was charged with five felony counts of drugs misconduct. He pleaded guilty to one consolidated count in a plea deal with prosecutors.

Jun 9 - By Dave Carpenter, AP Personal Finance Writer
The final day of business at Jim Samaras' second-generation Chrysler dealership brought a last bittersweet hint of the good old days of American car sales.
Jun 9 - By Tom Krisher, AP Auto Writer
Up to 20 General Motors Corp. dealerships have been spared the death penalty after the company reviewed their cases and reversed plans to end their franchise agreements, a top GM executive said Tuesday.

May 18 - By AllisonLinn
If General Motors follows Chrysler into bankruptcy court, as many are now expecting, it is likely to be far more painful for both the carmaker and the U.S. economy than its smaller rival’s bankruptcy filing of a few weeks ago.
Apr 8 - By Ron Todt, Associated Press Writer
A convicted drug kingpin and three other men were charged Wednesday with a dozen murders, including a row house arson that killed six people, four of them children, in retaliation for an informant's testimony.
Feb 1 - By The Associated Press
When a car buyer still owes money on a vehicle being traded in, the dealer promises to pay off the outstanding loan, then resells the vehicle. But as more auto dealerships go out of business, they are sticking consumers with the bill. Lenders then go after the previous owner who thought the debt was paid, or they repossess the car from the new owner who assumed it came with clear title.
Dec 17 - By Associated Press
Chrysler Financial warned its dealers that it may be forced to temporarily stop financing their vehicle inventories if dealers keep pulling large amounts of their money out of an account that helps fund those loans.

Dec 16 - By rolandjones
Amid the myriad problems facing the Big Three automakers, one is often overlooked — a costly, inefficient network of dealers.

Dec 3 - By Alex Johnson, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Perhaps no other place in America outside Detroit has more at stake in the debate over whether to bail out the auto industry than National City, Calif., sandwiched between San Diego and the Mexican border.
Nov 20 - By Associated Press
Law enforcement authorities arrested an 81-year-old man who illegally sold powerful prescription pain relievers. The arrest followed a raid on a home Monday by the Alaska Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Enforcement.
Nov 13 - By Associated Press
One of Minnesota's largest auto dealers is suing the financial arm of Chrysler LLC.
Nov 5 - By Tom Hays, Associated Press Writer
A wealthy arms dealer with a checkered past sought to make millions of dollars by selling heavy weaponry to Colombian militants whom the U.S. classifies as terrorists, a prosecutor said Wednesday at the start of the dealer's trial.

Oct 11 - By Patrick McGroarty, Associated Press Writers
Leonardo Patterson made his first archaeological find at age 7 in a yam field in his native Costa Rica — a piece of clay pottery his cousin said could be thousands of years old.
Sep 21 - By Ambika Ahuja, Associated Press Writer
An alleged arms smuggler's extradition hearing to the United States began Monday after a string of delays in the high-profile case because of complications with his defense team in Thailand.

Jul 27 - By Ambika Ahuja, Associated Press Writer
A Thai court delayed for the second time an extradition hearing for an alleged Russian arms smuggler after his new defense attorney failed to show up on Monday.
May 6 - By asdf, Associated Press Writer
Prosecutors announced an indictment Tuesday against a reputed Russian arms smuggler who they say tried to sell weapons to a U.S.-designated terrorist organization with the goal of killing Americans.
Apr 24 - By rolandjones
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