A Colorado company said it created 4,231 jobs with the help of President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan. The real number: fewer than 1,000. ...more

October 29, 2009

"Paranormal Activity" has won a weekend battle of fright films over part six of the "Saw" franchise. ...more

October 25, 2009

Falling ad revenue and a big one-time charge pushed newspaper and TV station owner Media General Inc. to a third-quarter loss, the company said Wednesday. ...more

October 22, 2009

Falling ad revenue and a big one-time charge pushed newspaper and TV station owner Media General Inc. to a third-quarter loss. ...more

October 21, 2009

Three Academy of the Holy Names students, Alexandra Sarau, Jennifer Caldwell and Sara Ku, were among 34,000 students from around the nation to receive recognition from the National Merit Scholarship program. ...more

October 21, 2009

MIAMI (AP) — The Florida Power & Light Company must pay a $25 million penalty for a massive outage that left nearly one million homes and businesses without power last year. ...more

October 8, 2009

A 74-year-old woman is in custody in Pinellas County, accused of killing her granddaughter's estranged husband nearly a year ago in Illinois. ...more

October 6, 2009

$754 million: proposed fiscal year 2010 budget $5.73: property tax rate per $1,000 of assessed value ...more

September 24, 2009

Facebook is closing an uncomfortable chapter in its 5-year history. The social network says it will shut down Beacon, a program that tracks users' activities on other Web sites. When it launched in 2007, Beacon was immediately attacked by users as a privacy violation. ...more

September 22, 2009

Hillsborough County...$775.6 million Pasco County...$209.2 million Pinellas County...$552.9 million ...more

September 20, 2009