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  TOKYO -- Toyota plan to resume production at all of its 14 plants as of Wednesday, after they were idled for a day due to a cyberattack on a domestic supplier. The supplier, Kojima Industries Corp., said Tuesday it had found a virus in its computer server. Details were under  investigation , it said. The two companies had worked out alternative ways to carry on with manufacturing even though the server problem was not yet resolved, said Toyota Motor Corp. spokeswoman Shiori Hashimoto. Kojima supplies Toyota with many items including air-conditioning, steering wheel components and other parts for vehicles’ interiors and exteriors. The physical mechanics of production were not affected by the virus, according to the company, which like many parts suppliers is based in Toyota city in central  Japan . The Japanese business daily Nikkei reported Tuesday the problem was ransomware. Kojima said “a threatening message” was confirmed Saturday along with a virus in a computer fil...

INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indianapolis police officer was shot and seriously wounded and a suspect was critically wounded in a shootout after officers responded to the scene of an automobile  crash , police said. The officer was hospitalized in serious but stable condition following the Sunday night shooting, while the male suspect was initially hospitalized in critical condition before being upgraded to serious condition, police said Monday. Indianapolis police said the wounded officer is a “one-year officer who was in field training.” That officer and a second officer were dispatched about 10 p.m. to the scene of a reported accident. As the officers were traveling to the scene, dispatchers were told that a male wearing a red jacket was exposing himself and that a male in a red vehicle was “acting strange,” was intoxicated and driving away from the reported crash scene. Police said witnesses directed the officers to the red vehicle and the officers soon found it and also saw a male in a ...

  NEW ORLEANS -- People are out to party as New Orleans’ first full-dress Mardi Gras since 2020 dawns Tuesday, with a day of back-to-back parades through the city and masks against COVID-19 required only in indoor public spaces. Parade routes are shorter than usual, because there aren't enough police for the standard ones, even with officers working 12-hour shifts as they always do on Mardi Gras and the end of the Carnival season leading up to it. But with COVID-19 hospitalizations and case numbers falling worldwide and 92% of the city's adults at least partly vaccinated, parades are back on after a season without them. And people are out and ready to let the good times roll. The crowd Sunday, when the huge Krewe of Bacchus paraded, “was a record for us in the 10 years we've been open,” said Thomas Houston, bar manager at Superior Seafood and Oyster Bar, located at the start of the truncated parade route. He expected similar crowds on Fat Tuesday — a state holiday — if the ...