A Queen Creek auto repair business plans to branch into production of biodiesel fuel - an alternative energy source derived from vegetable oil.

With diesel fuel approaching $4 a gallon in the East Valley, some motorists with diesel engines are converting their vehicles to run on vegetable oil. Charlie Anderson, president of Golden Fuel Systems, said interest in his company's waste vegetable oil conversion kits has soared.

 A new study brought out by JD Power and Associates predicts sales of hybrids electric vehicles and high mileage diesels are expected to triple by 2015. With gas prices nearing the $4 a gallon range, many new car purchasers are leaving behind the gas guzzlers of the ‘90s in favor of the greener, meaner, high mileage hybrid vehicles. It just makes sense.

April 20, 2005

The Phoenix office of the U.S. Marshals Service is asking for the public’s help in locating a man they described as a violent sexual predator last seen at a Chandler area truck stop on Wednesday.

Starting a business in a down economy is probably not at the top of any budding entrepreneur’s to-do list.

Texas Department of Public Safety officers on Friday arrested a man agents described as a violent sexual predator who was seen at a Chandler area truck stop last week.

All Nicolaus Otto wanted to do was make enough money to marry his wife, settle down and begin a career. He was 26 and a seemingly happy young man who was content to sell sugar, rice, coffee or tea while traveling through the countryside of western Germany in the 1850s.

TUCSON - Sun Tran buses running their routes through Tucson are jammed with riders.

PHOENIX - Relatives of an Army private who grew up in northern Arizona received word that she was among a group of soldiers listed as missing in action in Iraq, her brother said.

REARDAN, Wash. - Mom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: Thousands of old-fashioned pumps can't register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dials.

Today’s FJ Cruiser attempts to capture the grit of the company’s post Second World War workhorse that became one of the most durable and desirable off-roaders of all time.

After Chandler resident Mark McCoin lost his job in November, he created what he believes is a revolutionary engine.

Plumbers know they're going to get calls on Thanksgiving. In fact, for most it's the busiest time of the year. While preparing a big family feast, many cooks abuse the garbage disposal.

WASHINGTON - Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman said Wednesday the Bush administration has decided to release oil from federal petroleum reserves to help refiners affected by Hurricane Katrina.

WASHINGTON - Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman said Wednesday the Bush administration has decided to release oil from federal petroleum reserves to help refiners affected by Hurricane Katrina.

EL PASO, Texas - Joining the 507th Maintenance Company was not supposed to be terribly risky. The Army company is made up mostly of mechanics and isn’t considered a combat unit.

It takes a lot to run a car dealership successfully in today’s very competitive new car market. Until you get behind the scenes of a car dealership do you come to appreciate all the hard work every single employee has to perform each and every day to make the dealership a profitable success.

DALLAS - The company whose bus caught fire last week, killing 23 nursing-home patients fleeing Hurricane Rita, was the subject of complaints by three people in 2002 who said its vehicles reeked of fuel and were in disrepair, according to state records.

INDIANAPOLIS - Standing beside a computer-controlled machine nearly two stories high, auto worker Ron Fuller glances at the computer display before him, then taps the pressure-sensitive screen with a forefinger.

Sustainability, medical, mechanical engineering and military problems don’t have to be solved solely by private corporations or government agencies.

A Mesa man is marking a milestone, and it should come as no surprise that his wife said he’s more than a little cranky about it.

What kind of car dealership does it take to attract new car customers from towns as far away from the East Valley as Florence, Superior, and Johnson Ranch? It takes the kind of car dealership that makes a customer feel like they are dealing with a hometown neighbor. It takes a business customers know they can trust.

A last-minute, last-ditch effort to build a Jeep clone led to the modern-day sport-utility movement.