Shareholders of Walter Industries on Thursday gave the company a new identity to better reflect its core business: coal production. ...more

April 25, 2009

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

State Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer is asking fellow party officials to lay off the criticism of the party's new national chairman, Michael Steele, who has taken flak from the conservative side of the party during his brief tenure. ...more

March 14, 2009

State Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer is asking fellow party officials to lay off the criticism of the party's new national Chairman Michael Steele, who has taken flak from the conservative side of the party during his brief tenure. ...more

March 13, 2009

Twenty clients of the University Area Community Resource Center will be part of a pilot program to help people achieve self-sufficiency. ...more

February 25, 2009

So much for the savior-based economy. Tim Geithner, the learned and laconic civil servant and financial engineer, did not sweep in and infuse our shaky psyches with confidence. For starters, the 47-year-old's voice kept cracking. ...more

February 12, 2009

After years of losing money and an unsuccessful bid to find a buyer, a long-time Tampa home building company is calling it quits. ...more

January 7, 2009

Tampa-based Walter Industries Inc. announced today that it is closing its Jim Walter Homes subsidiary, which means the loss of 230 jobs nationwide, including 45 in Tampa. ...more

January 6, 2009

Walter Industries, a leading coal producer, has boosted its production and supply of coal with the acquisition of a coal-mining company in Alabama. ...more

September 9, 2008

Tampa-based Walter Industries Inc. said this morning that it has bought a coal producer in Alabama for $23.5 million. ...more

September 8, 2008