Shareholders of Walter Industries today approved a spinoff of the company's financing business, allowing the Tampa-based company to focus solely on coal production. ...more

April 23, 2009

Late-night talk shows have had a lot of fun at the expense of the Tampa Bay Rays. ...more

October 24, 2008

Kwesi Osei Ofori wants to feed a building boom in his native Ghana - and turn a little profit in the process. ...more

February 20, 2008

SEBRING – Bob Mullins didn't receive his business sense from a book because he only spent one year at the University of Virginia. The Lake Placid man, contrary to what experts believe about the importance of business plans, doesn't put much stock in them. Mullins ascribes to the approach of one of America's great retailers – F.W. Woolworth. "The Woolworth theory was that no matter what the problem is, you give the customer their money back," he said. "It is satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. That is the only reason that this has ever succeeded from Day One. I never stick anybody with something they don't want. "It's absolute," he added. "That's something I do not argue with it one little bit. It works." ...more

February 17, 2008

The lure of quick money - and lots of it - in the home building business was too tempting for Michael Dizzine to pass up, even when his heart told him to become a firefighter. ...more

September 4, 2007