By Derek Price
CNHI News Service

From the very beginning, size has been the ultimate automotive luxury.
Even in the olden days, when Duesenbergs wafted the world's rich and powerful down the road, it wasn't just technology and performance that made people notice luxury cars. It was their sheer size.

By Andy Rieger
CNHI News Service

William Least Heat-Moon didn’t have a satellite-guided Global Positioning System in his beat-up Ford van. If he had one, he could never have written, “Blue Highways,” the 1980s tale of re-discovering America and his own Native American heritage.
With a failed marriage and lost job as a college professor, Heat-Moon traveled the nation’s backroads. He drove 13,000 miles through 38 states and visited places like Nameless, Tenn., and Globe, Ariz.

By Kristin Harty
CNHI News Service

OLDTOWN, Md. -- The dog treat fell out of Chance’s mouth twice before he got a firm hold and chomped it to bits, tail wagging wildly.
A shotgun blast to his face five months ago took teeth and chunks of flesh from his upper and lower lips, and the hole in the right side of his mouth makes eating a little tricky.

Says Cindy Allen, Enid News & Eagle editor in Oklahoma:

On a recent Wednesday about noon, the scenery in Enid was absolutely beautiful. We had had a freezing morning fog that put a glaze of ice on trees, grass and rooftops. That was then followed by some heavy flurries.
What resulted were beautiful winter landscapes.

We put out a quick call online at 1 p.m. asking readers to send us photos of their winter landscapes. We got response immediately and had a slide show up by 5 p.m. Wednesday.

By Dave Zuchowski
CNHI News Service

GETTSBURG, Pa. -- I endured the cold, just like those who came before me.
On a chilly but sunny November day, I joined a throng of people who braved the cold — similar to those who met on the same spot 145 years before — and paid homage to our nation’s military. The ceremonies marked Dedication Day at the National Cemetery in Gettysburg.