AAA Urges Removal of Gas Pump Octane Labels
AAA calls for tearing off yellow and black octane labels after a GAO report found cheating at many stations in Detroit and St Louis. The group says car owners have only a 50 50 chance of getting the octane promised and warns the labels are misleading. A merchant group rep counters the claim as an exaggeration.
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Trial set Sept 21 for Ohio pilot Root
Thomas Root, a Washington lawyer born in Ohio, has a Sept 21 trial date on 20 counts of wire and mail fraud seven counts of filing false documents with the FCC four counts of using counterfeit documents and one count each of forgery and obstruction. Root, 37, faces up to 200 years in prison and $8 million in fines if convicted. His plane ran out of fuel and crashed into the Atlantic near the Bahamas last July during a flight from the Washington area. authorities dispute his claim of unconsciousness and bullet wound.
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