Manufacturing and Engineering

WASHINGTON (AP) — The prospect that thousands of drones could be patrolling U.S. skies by the end of this decade is raising the specter of a Big Brother government that peers into backyards and bedrooms. The worries began mostly on the political...

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY – A Central Indiana company announced its plan Friday to build plug-in hybrid work trucks at AM General. A vice president with the startup company, BRIGHT Automotive, says the plan is to bring 300 jobs to St. Joseph County by early...

Greg Gaver is sitting at his family's dining room table in Granger, speaking congenially about his high hopes for his future, when his attention abruptly shifts and his head swivels toward his mother. “Can I have dinner?” the 21-year-old asks...

WARSAW -- We know it's illegal to text and drive, but what about getting a ticket for your iPod? That's what one Warsaw man says happened to him. Michael Spangler says he was using his iPod Touch as a dash-cam mounted on his front windshield, much like a...

WACO, Texas (AP) — A federal jury has started deliberating in the trial of a Muslim soldier accused of planning to bomb a Texas restaurant filled with Fort Hood troops. Army Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo faces up to life in prison if convicted of...

For a long time Elkhart has been known as the RV capital of the world. But long before RV's made their debut, cars were made there. About a decade after the turn of the century, there were about 14 companies making cars in Elkhart --- it was by all...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Medical device maker Biomet Inc. has agreed to pay $22.7 million to settle U.S. criminal and civil allegations that it bribed government-employed doctors in Argentina, Brazil and China for eight years to win business with...

DETROIT (AP) — Car shoppers today are less likely to end up with a lemon. In the past five years, global competition has forced automakers to improve the quality and reliability of their vehicles — everything from inexpensive mini-cars to...

MISHAWAKA — Police and firefighters are investigating whether a man who was badly burned in a fire Sunday night at Lake Shore Estates mobile home neighborhood may have set the fire himself. The injured man, Randolph Banghart, 54, is listed in...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Jeffboat's Ohio River shipyard faces nine federal workplace safety violations and a $119,000 fine after its third worker fatality in just over 15 months, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said...

A commercial building in Edwardsburg was destroyed after an early morning fire Wednesday. Just after 2 a.m., fire crews were dispatched to a building at Section and Max streets in Edwardsburg, just south of Edwardsburg High School. Crews battled...

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford says it's recalling nearly half a million minivans and SUVs because of a pair of mechanical issues. The Dearborn, Mich.-based automaker is recalling 205,896 Freestar and Mercury Monterey minivans made during the 2004 and...