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Importer must recall tires from China

By TIMES WIRES
Published June 26, 2007

NEWARK, N.J. - Federal safety officials have ordered a New Jersey tire importer to recall as many as 450, 000 tires that it bought from a Chinese manufacturer and sold to U.S. distributors. Foreign Tire Sales Inc. of Union said an unknown number of the light truck radials it imported since 2002 from Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co., of Hangzhou, China, could suffer tread separation, a problem that led to the nation's largest tire recall in 2000. The tires at issue were sold under at least four brand names - Westlake, Compass, Telluride and YKS.

Cash bond offered to free teenager

ATLANTA - Eleven entrepreneurs who have never met Genarlow Wilson have offered a $1-million cash bond to free him while his conviction on child molestation charges is on appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court. The former high school football star, 21, is serving a 10-year sentence for engaging in consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. Two weeks ago, a county judge voided Wilson's sentence, describing it as a "grave miscarriage of justice." State Attorney General Thurbert Baker appealed the decision. A bond hearing has been set for July 5.

Elsewhere

Canton, Ohio: Police Officer Bobby Cutts Jr., 30, who is accused of killing pregnant girlfriend Jessie Davis and her nearly full-term fetus, was ordered held on $5-million bail on Monday.

Washington: Testifying at a congressional hearing Monday about the government's environmental response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman defended her statements assuring the public the air in Lower Manhattan was safe in the days immediately after the attack. She denied critics' assertions that there had been a deliberate attempt to play down health risks or that the White House had improperly influenced her statements.

Washington: A former U.S. Army Reserve officer, Lt. Col. Bruce D. Hopfengardner, 46, of Fredericksburg, Va., was sentenced to nearly two years in prison Monday for helping steer millions of dollars in Iraq-reconstruction contracts in exchange for jewelry, computers, cigars and sexual favors.

Atlanta: The number of uninsured adults increased by 2-million from 2005 to 2006, going to 43.6 million, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday.

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