Saturn VUE News

General Motors , the bankrupt US auto giant, yesterday signed an agreement with the world's second largest car dealership chain, Penske Automotive Group, to sell its Saturn brand.

Benita Jackson, 41, of Detroit poses with her 2004 Saturn Vue she recently financed with the help of a low-interest loan program that helps people buy and repair used cars to get to work.

A few weeks ago the automotive world was all a-flutter with the news that, as part of the first step toward finding ways to solve its financial problems in Europe, General Motors was taking a 7 percent stake in France's Peugeot Citroen.

Authorities are looking for two people who escaped early Thursday morning after leading officers on a high-speed chase that started in Castro Valley, continued on the freeway and ended on surface streets in Oakland, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.