Finally there's a part of the government's stimulus plan that benefits cheapskates. It's the so-called "Cash for Clunkers" program, better known as the Car Allowance and Rebate System.

I was driving home last Sunday from a trip out of town when a huge gator showed me his teeth and then put the bite on me.

Whew! Raising children was a big job. This was my first Father's Day in 26 years when I didn't officially have a kid.

The black-and-white images were grainy -- in fact, downright lousy -- and the sound quality wasn't much better.

After what seemed like a long interval, the news has been full of aviation accidents. In January, we saw video of a U.S. Airways jet landing in the Hudson River in New York after it ran into a flock of geese.

For Bob McDonnell, Tuesday night's Democratic gubernatorial primary must have seemed like the best steak dinner he never got to eat.

Somewhere last week, my Uncle Bill was looking down and shaking his head. On some level, I'm glad Bill didn't live long enough to see General Motors go into bankruptcy. He would not have been very happy about it.

At first glance, the Overlord Arch seems out of place on the outskirts of Bedford. Looming into the sky, with the Blue Ridge Mountains behind it in the west, the arch looks like a piece of architecture from another world -- nothing like the quaint buildings in the city's downtown area or its quiet residential neighborhoods.