One last New Year's resolution that would be a great help to hundreds of boaters around the Bay area would be to make 2008 the year when they finally get around to taking one of the excellent boating safety courses offered by the Coast Guard Auxiliary and the U.S. Power Squadron organizations. ...more

January 6, 2008

A 2.3-liter inline-4 cylinder engine offers 156 horsepower at 6500 rpm and 154 pounds-feet of torque at 4000 rpm. ...more

January 5, 2008

A 2.0-liter V-4 engine develops 143 horsepower at 5800 rpm and 136 pounds-feet of torque at 3500 rpm. ...more

December 22, 2007

As soon as you press the start button, you will hear the menacing rumble from the all-new 6.2-liter V-8 engine (up from 6.0 liter). ...more

December 8, 2007

A central Florida man was charged with vehicular homicide after DNA evidence showed he was driving a car that ran a red light and struck another vehicle, killing four family members, authorities said. ...more

November 4, 2007

SEBRING — Playing Beefo Bingo at Ag-Venture at Firemen's Field Tuesday, third-graders learned that cattle provide a lot more than the beef that is for dinner. Using marshmallows for markers, the students filled in their Bingo cards as Ag-Venture volunteer Wayne Godwin named off things that had a component from beef byproducts: luggage, paints, pet food, bandages, insulin, mayonnaise, crayons, soap and candy. ...more

October 31, 2007

The SUV boasts plenty of power to merge quickly into peak-hour traffic or cruise the highway at leisure and in comfort. Performance-oriented enthusiasts will enjoy revving up its six-cylinder engine. ...more

October 27, 2007

TALLAHASSEE (AP) — The final chapter in one of Highlands County's most notorious murders may have come to an end Thursday. DNA testing cannot be done in the contract killing of citrus and cattle baron Charles Von Maxcy because evidence from the sensational 1966 case apparently no longer exists, the Florida Supreme Court ruled. The justices unanimously affirmed a trial judge's decision denying DNA testing sought by death row inmate William H. Kelley. He was convicted of killing Von Maxcy in 1984 — 18 years after the 41-year-old victim was stabbed and shot to death at his Sebring home. Von Maxcy's wife, Irene, had arranged through her lover, John Sweet, to have Kelley, 64, of Brockton, Mass., kill her husband. Sweet, the state's chief witness, testified the wife was afraid of being left out of Von Maxcy's $1.7 million estate. ...more

October 26, 2007

The 528i is equipped with a 3.0-liter inline six-cylinder engine, which produces 230 horsepower at 6500 rpm and 200 pounds-feet of torque at 2750 rpm. ...more

October 20, 2007

Several students were hailed as heroes Friday after taking control of a school bus when the driver suffered a seizure and lost control. ...more

October 13, 2007