Former U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas, hired by GM in March to investigate the switch problems, told a congressional subcommittee last month that GM wanted each small-car ignition to "feel like it ...

General Motors CEO Mary Barra and David Friedman, acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, testified at a hearing on the automaker's ignition switch recall. The ...

Five years before Brooke Melton died, General Motors issued a service bulletin to its dealers about faulty ignition switches. When Brooke Melton took her car to a GM dealership, the service report ...

The Result. If the ignition were switched off while the car was in motion, as could happen in the faulty Chevy Cobalts, the main computer controlling the airbags would stop working after one or ...

The switches, though, were too loose, touching off events that led to at least 13 deaths, more than 50 crashes and a raft of legal trouble for the Detroit automaker.

How GM's ignition switch redesign went wrong. July 7, 2014 at 3:39 p.m. | Updated July 7, 2014 at 3:45 p.m. by Associated Press ...