After innocent firefighter nearly loses job over bogus cheating accusation, Florida judge bans toll road photo tickets. A Florida judge fed up with the treatment of an innocent driver accused of "toll cheating" yesterday ordered Florida toll roads to stop issuing tickets to anyone with valid E-PASS or SunPass accounts. Circuit Judge John Galluzzo also ordered lower court judges in Seminol...

Straddling a motorcycle the color of a robin's egg, the girl in jeans and a T-shirt leaned forward to kiss her lover. Their bodies touched lightly, hands reaching for each other in the way of those who cannot bear to be parted. I remember that girl. Twenty-seven years ago, I was that girl. I fell in love with a man who has loved motorcycles much longer than he has loved me. He began riding bikes wh...

One  day in 1906, in Springfield, Mass., Oscar Hedstrom presented a gift to Harmon Elliott, the 16-year-old son of his friend (and fellow inventor) Sterling Elliott. The gift was a shiny black Indian motorcycle produced by the Hendee Manufacturing Company, which Hedstrom had co-founded.   The Indian, which sold for $210 at the time, was essentially a reinforced bicycle powered by a single-cylinde...

As the price to fill up your gas tank continues to get more and more painful, people all over the country are searching for ways to save on gas. One of the solutions is driving motorcycles instead of cars. At Virginia Western Community College, Faye Hedrick is learning to ride a motorcycle. "Save a little bit on gas because I'm furious about the gas prices. I'm furious," Hedrick said. She's taking...

If you are driving in Denver, Colorado, keep your eyes out for the men in blue. The commander of the traffic operations bureau for the city has publicly announced that their motorcycle officers are expected to write 2 tickets an hour, or 16 traffic tickets for their 8 hour shifts. This is so wrong on so many fronts. We know that ticket revenue is a big part of police budgets, but to mandate a certa...