WASHINGTON — The IRS says Lois Lerner's computer hard drive was destroyed three years ago, ending any chance of retrieving her lost e-mails.

The IRS says in court papers filed Friday the hard drive was destroyed in 2011 after two sets of trained technicians tried to retrieve the data. The tax agency says it was standard procedure to destroy old data storage equipment that may have contained confidential taxpayer information.

The IRS says Lerner's computer crashed that year, destroying an untold number of e-mails. At the time, Lerner headed the division that handles applications for tax-exempt status.

Lerner is a central figure in congressional investigations into the handling of applications by tea party groups.

DETROIT — Toyota wants to help you scream at your unruly children.The latest version of the company's Sienna minivan has a feature called “Driver Easy Speak.” It uses a built-in microphone to amplify a parent's voice through speakers in the back seats.Toyota says it added Easy Speak “so parents don't have to shout to passengers in the back.” But chances are many parents will yell into the microphone anyway.And the feature only works one way, so the children can't talk back. At least not with amplified voices.The feature is an option on the 2015 Sienna, which is being refreshed with a totally new interior.

SEATTLE — A judge has granted Casey Kasem's daughter a temporary restraining order preventing the famous radio host's wife from cremating his remains, but it's unclear where those remains are or whether they've already been disposed of.A lawyer for Kasem's daughter Kerri Kasem said Friday when he went to give a Tacoma funeral home a copy of the restraining order, he was informed it no longer had the remains.“They said they could not disclose where he had gone or where he would end up,” said the lawyer.