We're always told not to dwell on the past, but sometimes it can be kind of fun. Paying tribute to the Checker Motor Cars cab is one of those times. New vehicles from Checker could soon be on the road ...

Bernard Madoff seemed the height of respectability in 2008, but he was secretly scamming his investors. Among them was the ...

KALAMAZOO -- A Canadian automotive supplier may buy Checker Motors Corp. for $1.6 million, according to documents filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court late this week. Checker Motors, which has been ...

New York City may have the Taxi of Tomorrow these days, but a new take on the classic Checker cab could soon be on the road. Checker Motor Cars of Haverhill, Mass., is planning to manufacture two ...

You know the economy must be in good shape when auto companies that were formerly left for dead begin to rise like Lazarus. Last week it was the boutique automaker formerly known as Fisker that was ...

Q: Greg, I remember fondly going to Horn & Hardart food luncheonettes with my parents many times in New York in the 1960s and we always took a Checker Cab to get there. I also remember seeing those ...

New York City nostalgists and retrophiles rejoice: Checker, the brand behind the city’s most iconic fleet of taxi cabs, plans on rolling out new cars for the first time in more than three decades.

David Markin, an avid tennis player who had played earlier this year, died Thursday morning in Florida at age 82 after complications from an illness that set in about five weeks earlier. Markin was an ...