General Motors and LG Chem will invest a combined $2.3 billion to mass produce battery cells in northeast Ohio, near GM's former Lordstown assembly plant.

Former UAW Vice President Joe Ashton is the 11th person to plead guilty in the federal government's ongoing corruption probe. Ashton is expected to receive a prison sentence of 30 to 37 months and agreed to forfeit $250,000 he collected in kickbacks, according to his plea agreement.

The plant's UAW-represented hourly workers will be offered transfers, likely to locations in Michigan and Ohio, at least until production resumes.

Engineers who worked on the 2020 Corvette's engine, which is visible from the outside of the car, had to make sure its looks were as impressive as its performance.

A Chevrolet dealer who thrived on medium-duty commercial business a decade ago is setting himself up to reclaim that segment with an $8 million service center. But before his commercial business even ramps up, the service center has propelled double-digit sales gains on the retail side.

Federal Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Stafford released Vance Pearson on a $10,000 unsecured bond. A preliminary hearing was set for Jan. 6.

General Motors hired Alfonso Iacobelli in 2016. The automaker says it didn't know about the corruption at his previous employer that would eventually cost him his freedom.

GM, seeking billions of dollars in damages in a federal lawsuit, contends that Sergio Marchionne was "using the UAW as the hammer" to force a merger with FCA.

The $3 billion plan to save the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant with electric pickups, vans and SUVs, as well as the battery modules to power them, is far from a sure bet.

The investment in the 251,000-square-foot Brookville facility in Ohio will create 100 jobs. Construction will be completed by the end of 2020.

General Motors is recalling more than 640,000 pickups that could cause a fire when seat belt pretensioners deploy during a crash.

The crossover — a smaller version of the midsize SUV General Motors discontinued a decade ago — will have a starting price of "under $20,000" when it arrives at dealerships in the spring.

The lawsuit contends that the late FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne in 2015 "schemed to use the collective bargaining process to harm GM by becoming the lead in negotiations and attempting to force a merger of the companies."

GM said it has been substantially damaged because FCA "undermined the integrity of the collective bargaining process" over the past decade. Three former FCA executives who have pleaded guilty in the ongoing UAW corruption scandal were named as defendants.

The factory, with the help of a $3 billion GM investment, will build four EVs by 2023, according to LMC Automotive. The plant, which had been scheduled to close in January, will remain open under the automaker's new UAW contract.