SAN ANTONIO — Washing machines are not the quietest appliances, but Sue Ann Brooks' machine is so loud you can't stay in the same room with it. What makes that even worse is that it's less than ...

Thanks to Maytag, doing laundry is practically effortless these days compared to the washing, rinsing, wringing and line-drying of 74 years ago. Jorgensen: Getting my pigtail stuck in the washer's ...