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Representing an important landmark in Buick history, the Rainier is the first full-frame SUV to wear the Buick name. Based on GM's award-winning midsize SUV architecture, the new Rainier offers a level of style, ride comfort and performance that sets it apart from other midsize SUVs. Built at the automaker's Moraine, Ohio, assembly plant, the Buick Rainier is available in CXL and CXL Plus trim levels as a four-door wagon. Offered in two- or four-wheel drive configurations, the midsize SUV is powered by a state-of-the-art Vortec 4200 4.2L inline six-cylinder aluminum engine bolted to a smooth shifting Hydra-Matic four-speed electronically controlled automatic with overdrive and torque converter clutch.

A Harpers Ferry, W.Va., man died following a head-on accident Sunday morning near the intersection of W.Va. 9 and Bloomery Road, according to West Virginia State Police. The crash was reported at 4:11 a.m., according to a news release. Police said a 1994 Buick four-door sedan driven by Steven Michael Bernath, 53, of Harpers Ferry was traveling on W.Va. 9 when it crossed the center line and collided with a 2008 work van. Bernath, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was later pronounced dead by Jefferson County Medical Examiner Donald Shirley, the release said.

Buick has set a goal of becoming a more upscale, luxury-oriented General Motors brand and the first fruit of this new vision is the 2005 LaCrosse. To be released this fall, it will replace both the long-running Century and Regal. While not exactly ground-breaking, the LaCrosse is a definite step in the right direction for Buick. It's evolutionary rather than revolutionary. The style is clearly evocative of the current pair of Buicks it replaces and the greasy bits beneath that familiar skin continue to be old tech.

A Buick that can really move is always welcome, especially if it can move plenty of passengers and a boxcar load of cargo in all sorts of weather and driving conditions. That's the essence of the 2008 Enclave, a meaty and mighty four-door wagon that's one of a trio of new vehicles being introduced by General Motors that includes the platform-shared Saturn Outlook and GMC Acadia. The Enclave, however, stakes out the luxury-class end of the spectrum, replacing the minivan-based Buick Rendezvous and eventually the Rainier sport-ute.

GOLF ORLANDO, Fla. - The Black Rock quintet led by club pro Dirk Schultz finished in a fifth-place tie following the opening round of the 20th annual Buick Scramble National Finals on Wednesday. Schultz and his amateur partners - Rich Moyer, Denny Lowery, Scott Matheny and Larry Henry - carded a 15-under par 57, three shots behind the leaders from Plum Brook Country Club in Sandusky, Ohio in the gross division, in which 130 teams are competing. "We played the par 5s in 7-under and went 8-under over the last six holes with two eagles," Schultz said.

Most golfers would not interrupt their game to make a phone call home except for a believable situation, one that had never yet been experienced. Hagerstown's Doug South had a hard time convincing his wife, Wanda, and son, Cory, that he had just won a new car while playing in the Buick Scramble golf tournament Saturday at Black Rock Golf Course. South, 52, made his first hole-in-one count on the seventh hole as he watched the flight of his ball travel 171 yards off a six iron to win a 2004 Rainier CXL. "I tried on and off for three holes to call home and finally my son, Cory, answered and he didn't believe me at first," said South.

This 1956 Buick Special comes with a new hood ornament. The car and cat can be seen on Appletown Road in Boonsboro.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- Two people were flown to Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia following a two-vehicle accident Tuesday about 4 p.m. in the 3400 block of Sulphur Springs Road, according to a Berkeley County Sheriff's Department press release. The cause of the accident, which involved a GMC Yukon and a Buick Century, was being investigated, deputies said. The driver and the back seat passenger of the Buick had to be freed from the vehicle before they were flown to the hospital, deputies said.

Five people were taken to the hospital after a four-vehicle chain-reaction accident Friday morning on Mapleville Road, (Md. 66) at Wilderness Run Road, Trooper Andrew Smith of the Maryland State Police said. A Buick heading northbound on Mapleville Road collided with the back of a Honda, causing it to collide with the back of a Subaru Legacy which then collided with the back of an Odyssey minivan, Smith said. The minivan was turning left from Mapleville Road northbound onto Wilderness Run Road.

One person was killed Wednesday morning and four others were taken to hospitals as the result of a two-vehicle crash on northbound Interstate 81 near the 18-mile marker about two miles north of Martinsburg, according to West Virginia State Police. The accident, which was reported at 11:13 a.m., involved a Toyota SUV and a Buick station wagon, according to a state police news release, which said Trooper Z.L. Nine investigated the crash. The driver of the SUV was taken to Martinsburg City Hospital and three passengers from the SUV were flown to Fairfax Inova Hospital, state police said.