Princeton News

Toyota Motor Corp. will replace gas pedals on 3.8 million recalled vehicles in the United States to address problems with sudden acceleration or the pedal becoming stuck in the floor mat, The Associated Press has learned.

Basil Rynestead, 17, and his mother, Renee. Renee worries about her teenage son getting into a car accident.

Dallas police say a waiter at Kona Grill in Dallas' NorthPark Center stole credit cards from several customers during happy hour Friday night.

The fastest growing group on Facebook is the 35-54-year-old set. Here's an orientation guide so you don't act like an idiot.

Thousands of travelers and consumers can fall victim to electronic pickpocketing and never even know it because they carry new credit cards and U.S. passports.

Dallas police say women should be on the lookout for purse thieves. Police said purse-snatching picks up during the holiday shopping season, as women carry more cash and thieves get more desperate.

The number of hate crimes against religious groups in the U.S. jumped more than 8 percent during 2008 - the most notable increase in a variety of hate crime statistics reported in data released Monday by the FBI.

An Amazon.com employee works at a Fernley, Nev., warehouse last December. This year, the online retailer is hiring hundreds of temporary staff at fulfillment centers across the country to help meet holiday demand.

Home sales surged for the second month in a row in October, climbing to the highest level in 2 1/2 years as first-time buyers rushed to take advantage of an expiring tax credit.

Last night Zero Hedge obtained some interesting documents from the CDC web site. They contain blank 'forced quarantine' orders from Iowa and Florida regarding novel H1N1 -- including quarantine to a 'secure detention center'-- which appear to be recent -- dated April 2009.

In fact, senior hunger is even growing right here in Texas . The findings indicate that Texas ranks Fourth out of America 's 50 senior hunger states.

The Texas economy threw off mixed signals in October, with expanding payrolls but a rising unemployment rate.

A head-on collision Friday morning south of Lavon Lake killed three people and left a 4-year-old girl, among others, injured.

The Dallas County health department received 22,900 doses of swine flu vaccine Friday and plans to distribute them all before Thanksgiving.

Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its newly-launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand -- a pre-holiday miscalculation that analysts said could boost sales of rival Amazon.com Inc's market leading Kindle.

Scientists in Norway have identified a mutated form of the swine flu virus that is raising concern because it was found in two patients who died of the flu and a third who was severely ill with the disease, officials announced Friday. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health said the mutation "could possibly make the virus more prone to infect deeper in the airways and thus cause more severe disease," such as pneumonia.

Kroger is holding the first in a series of job fairs Friday to hire workers for its new Marketplace concept store in Frisco.

Texas employers expanded payrolls by 41,700 jobs in October, the Texas Workforce Commission said Friday - a significant piece of good economic news after a year of nearly uninterrupted monthly job losses.