John Niles sometimes puts a simple sign — white background, black letters — outside his house in a woodsy subdivision in the St. Augustine suburbs. SEWING MACHINES, it reads. No kidding: Inside his ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Vending machines have been around for quite some time. Dating back to first century A.D. during the Roman Empire, when the Greek mathematician Heron of Alexandria invented a ...

ST. CLOUD — Picture that machine in your office break room: The one with a tantalizing Snickers lit from behind and straining against that shiny metal coil, or with that hit of fizz and caffeine ...