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WHEELWRIGHT — Brenda Mullins said no one paid attention to her complaints a month ago when a crack 50 feet long indicated the hillside below her rented Wheelwright home was sliding downhill, and now she thinks city, county, state and federal offices are "passing the buck" while she and her husband are homeless.

As Toyota's Georgetown plant resumed full production Monday after a weeklong shutdown to fix a problem with accelerator pedals, the nation's largest auto insurer revealed it had alerted federal safety regulators on numerous occasions starting in 2007 about reports of unexpected acceleration in the vehicles.

Authorities say a drunken man stole an ambulance from a Wisconsin ski area with the patient and paramedics still inside. The Dane County Sheriff's Department says emergency responders were treating a patient in the back of the ambulance at the Tyrol Basin Ski and Snowboard Area in Mount Horeb on Monday night. They say a 24-year-old Illinois man got into the vehicle and drove it around the parking lot.