DETROIT - General Motors' (GM) deadly ignition switch flaws emerged from an effort to improve its cars. As the company began developing new small cars in the late 1990s, it listened to customers who ...

GM’s ignition-switch recall may have reached new heights Thursday, with one auto-safety group declaring that 303 people have died as a result of airbags failing to deploy in two of the six cars ...

General Motors recently issued a recall for several different models due to an ignition switch issue similar to the one that plagued 2.7 million of its small cars and resulted in the deaths of 13 ...

General Motors Co is grappling with a crisis over its decade-long failure to recall cars equipped with faulty ignition switches. The flaw could cause engines to shut off, leading to a sudden loss of ...

For several weeks, CBS News has been reporting on its investigation into a General Motors recall. At least 13 people have died in accidents linked to an ignition-switch defect. CBS News' reporting ...

General Motors (GM) has settled two so-called "bellwether" cases of defective ignition switches involved in accidents. Both of the lawsuits claimed injuries caused by accidents linked to faulty ...

In his report, Feinberg also linked the ignition switches to 275 injuries, the vast majority of which were minor injuries requiring hospitalization or outpatient treatment within 48 hours of an ...

Newly released internal GM documents reveal that the company in 2001 considered -- and rejected – an ignition switch design that two prominent safety advocates say could have avoided the problem that ...

Earlier this month, General Motors decided to recall more than 600,000 Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 cars built for the 2005-2007 model years to fix a faulty ignition switch. Today, the ...

A pervading atmosphere of incompetence and neglect at General Motors led the company to allow a deadly problem to fester for 11 years before anyone acted to correct it. So says a report Thursday ...

The new head of General Motors, Mary Barra, goes to Capitol Hill Tuesday to begin two days of testimony. It's the first time she'll be questioned about a safety defect that's been linked to at least ...

WASHINGTON — A Senate panel pummeled General Motors CEO Mary Barra on Wednesday with accusations including an illegal cover-up by GM and an engineer lying under oath. It was Barra's second day of ...