A.J. Allmendinger will drive the No. 44 Dodge for Richard Petty Motorsports in the season-opening Budweiser Shootout and at least the first eight NASCAR Sprint Cup races this season.

David Stuart Dodge, the former head of American University of Beirut who was kidnapped by extremists during Lebanon’s civil war, has died. He was 86.

The chief executive of Chrysler LLC said Monday that his company hasn’t reached any new deals with other automakers but has spoken with outside parties interested in working with the Dodge and Jeep maker.

Patrick Carpentier was released from Gillett Evernham Motorsports on Tuesday, and Mike Wallace and AJ Allmendinger will finish the season in the No. 10 Dodge.

Steven Garcia pulled into a Houston gas station recently to fill up the old Dodge van his punk band uses on summer tours.For months, the 23-year-old singer-guitarist had been budgeting money and booking show dates for Something Fierce’s third tour _ but..

Blake Icenhower got a one-ton wakeup call, courtesy of his co-worker behind the wheel of his pickup truck. As the 19-year-old laid in bed Friday morning at a Magnolia hotel, co-worker Hoby Armstrong went outside to start his Dodge diesel truck. Armstrong.

The Dodge pickup has rust on the tailgate and a Harley-Davidson sticker on its back windshield. Beside it sits a Honda Accord with a big, white butterfly on the windshield and American flag butterflies on each side of the trunk.There’s the minivan...