Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) February 25, 2007 -- Ford Motor Company joins the 38th NAACP Image Awards program as a sponsor of the NAACP Hollywood Bureau (NHB) 3rd Annual Symposium, titled, "Who's Running the Show: Creating Heroes." The symposium, featuring some of the diverse cast of the popular television show, "Heroes," will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and is one of the key events leading up to the 38th Annual Image Awards presentation that will air live on Friday, March 2 on Fox Television Network.

Emmy-award winning broadcaster Ed Gordon, host of TV One's "Our World with Black Enterprise," will serve as moderator of this joint production of the television academy and the NAACP.

Woman Held On Drug Charges

EAST HARTFORD -- A local woman is being held on $250,000 bond after her arraignment in Superior Court in Manchester today on a litany of drug and motor vehicle charges.

Ronnette Perry, 38, was arrested Thursday, a week after police first visited her house on Colt Street on a domestic dispute call, officials said. During that visit, police noticed her Ford Explorer had license plates that didn't belong on it, told her that she had a suspended license and shouldn't be driving, officials said.

Welcome to the family: Ford Edge gets first rebate

The arrival of the Edge CUV is now complete with word that Ford has just put some cash on the hood of its golden child for the first time. In reality, the incentive is being offered only for base SE models and is paid to the dealer to use how he or she feels fit. So it's not like you'll be seeing this incentive advertised in your Sunday circular. It turns out that demand for more expensive versions of the Edge has been greater than Ford anticipated, and as a result these base SE models, which so far have comprised only 20% of Edge sales, have been sitting on lots longer than expected. That's the kind of good bad news we'd like to hear if most of our eggs are sitting shotgun in a single model. The base Edge SE starts at $25,995, while the mid-range SEL begins at $27,990 and the top-level SEL Plus at $29,745.

Top Rankin

For 30 years Ford has been the nation's favourite marque, selling more than 13 million cars and touching most of our lives. Now, to herald the new Mondeo, celebrity photographer Rankin has been let loose in the company's archive to select images that tell the tale of Ford in Britain, and he talks about his enduring relationship with the Blue Oval