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A racing safety manufacturer who endured criticism over the role his former company’s seat belt may have played in Dale Earnhardt’s death now faces accusations his new company used counterfeit certification labels on some of its products.
SFI Foundation Inc. has filed a lawsuit and sought a restraining order against Bill Simpson’s Impact Racing LLC to ban the sale of fire suits, seat belts and other uncertified Impact gear it says bear counterfeit SFI labels or patches … Details
Formula One has the kind of glitz and glamour that most other sports can only dream of, with pretty faces a fixture of the paddock. Here’s the WAGS (wives and girlfriends) grid for 2010: Jenson Button: WAG factor: Last year Button split with longtime girlfriend Florence Brudenell-Bruce. “Flee (her nickname) is gorgeous but Jenson couldn’t be tamed,” a ‘friend’ said. Before Brudenell-Bruce, Button had a two-year relationship with 2003 Fame Academy singer Louise Griffiths. Now he is dating model Jessica Michibata who, speaks fluent English, has a Japanese mother and a half-Spanish, half-Italian father. Lewis Hamilton: WAG factor: The defending world dates pop star Nicole Scherzinger, lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls who  … Details & Pictures
HONOLULU – Their kingdom long ago overthrown, Native Hawaiians seeking redress are closer than they’ve ever been to reclaiming a piece of Hawaii.
Native Hawaiians are the last remaining indigenous group in the United States that hasn’t been allowed to establish their own government, a right already extended to Alaska Natives and 564 Native American tribes.
With a final vote pending in the U.S. Senate and Hawaii-born President Barack Obama on their side, the nation’s 400,000 Native Hawaiians could earn federal recognition as soon as …Â Details