If late-night television commercials are to be believed, America’s soft-bodied sofa dwellers dream primarily of three things: owning a knife that can cut through a penny; obtaining cash for gold; and ...

If doing an addition or building a new house using traditional wood-stud walls seems a little too wimpy in this bold new millennium, there’s a muscular new option from a surprising source.

Jerry Lee Wilson thought he had figured out the perfect way to motivate employees: He brought a shotgun to work. It was the late 1970s, and Wilson was overseeing a factory in Hillsboro, Oregon, that ...

Back in 1984, Steve Ockerman was a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, stationed at Quantico, Va., when he noticed an ad campaign for Soloflex, the resistance-based home exercise machines. The ads ...

HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2004--The makers of the Soloflex Muscle Machine, the world's first home weightlifting system, made statements today to distance themselves publicly from ...

Jerry Wilson, who made millions of dollars starting the Soloflex exercise machine business, sent out a press release Monday morning saying he intended to run for Oregon governor as a Republican. But ...

To his fans, former Soloflex model Scott Madsen is an Adonis whose muscular frame remains popular viewing on and Web sites such as But in the eyes of the law, he's an embezzler. U.S. District Judge ...