Southfield, Michigan: US sales of luxury auto brands including Toyota Motor Corp’s Lexus and Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz fell in April, adding to evidence that the economic slowdown is causing even wealthy buyers to curb spending.

FAYETTEVILLE — More supercomputers are showing up at Arkansas’ four-year universities, helping researchers tackle increasingly complex scientific problems. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)

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A dramatic "V" of brown pelicans flew overhead as Chrysler's Senior Marketing Manager Jim Yetter was introducing the 2009 Dodge Ram lineup on a secluded beach north of Santa Barbara, California.

KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Ten homes in Kissimmee's historic district are being demolished to make room for a new four-building shopping mall. The homes were built back in the 1950s. The area is considered a "historic" district in Kissimmee and they were consi