BRIEFS

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP):A couple that rode freight trains together was found dead last week in coal at a Florida power plant.

The bodies of 25 year-old Christopher Artes and his 22-year-old girlfriend, Medeana Hendershot, were found Sunday. They were heading to Florida to stay in the warmer weather for the winter. The couple was apparently in a coal car when it was dumped at a power plant in Lakeland, in the central part of the state.

Artes died from asphyxiation, meaning he was likely buried alive. Hendershot died from injuries due to blunt force trauma to the mid-section, so she could have been fatally wounded while falling.

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Pollution high in New Delhi

NEW DELHI (AP):A decade ago, plans for a metro and clean-fuel buses were hailed as New Delhi's answer to pollution. But air in the Indian capital is as dirty as ever - partly because breakneck development has brought skyrocketing use of cars.

Citywide pollution sensors routinely register levels of small airborne particles at two or sometimes three times its own sanctioned level for residential areas, putting New Delhi up with Beijing, Cairo and Mexico City at the top of indexes listing the world's most-polluted capitals.

Sunrises in India's capital filter through near-opaque haze, scenic panoramas feature ribbons of brown air and everywhere, it seems, someone is coughing.

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No more US Ford Ranger

DETROIT (AP):It's the end of the road for the Ranger in the United States.

Ford is ending production of the smallest pick-up it makes, a truck that helped the company battle more fuel-efficient Japanese imports when it was launched in 1982. The last American-made Ranger rolls off the assembly line in Minnesota on Friday.