More people are sure to lay claim to what may be the largest treasure ever recovered from the sea, said Mark Gordon, president of Odyssey Marine Exploration, the company that found the loot more than a year ago. ...more

August 26, 2008

More people are sure to lay claim to what may be the largest treasure ever recovered from the sea, said Mark Gordon, president of Odyssey Marine Exploration, the company that found the loot more than a year ago. ...more

August 25, 2008

Estela Roberts and her family have always hoped they would be compensated one day for their property in Cuba seized after that country's 1959 revolution. ...more

June 17, 2008

More than 800 black farmers filed a new lawsuit against the Agriculture Department just two weeks after Congress reopened a 1999 settlement over past discrimination. ...more

June 5, 2008

Tampa-based Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc., a deep-sea exploration and salvage company, said it has discovered two separate shipwrecks in the English Channel. Both shipwrecks, which contain colonial-era artifacts, are outside the territorial waters of any sovereign nation, said Odyssey, a publicly-held company. ...more

May 29, 2008

After Spain claimed ownership of a sunken treasure worth an estimated $500 million this week, the Tampa company that recovered the loot has fired back, saying the rightful owner is a mystery and that it's entitled to a share of the find. ...more

May 10, 2008

TAMPA - John Pool wants to know why the U.S. Department of Labor is saying no. ...more

May 6, 2008

A company that made contaminated pet food that killed dozens of dogs nationwide will pay $3.1 million in a settlement with pet owners, an attorney said Friday. ...more

January 5, 2008

TAMPA - A former state labor judge sentenced in 1991 for delivery of cocaine and having sex with a 14-year-old girl has violated probation by practicing law without a license, prosecutors say. Louis Tidwell, 69, appeared in court this morning on an outstanding warrant. ...more

October 11, 2007

Anthony La Spada was expecting a large judgment against Iran, but when the amount was announced Friday morning, the Tampa lawyer who represents four families of those killed in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut finally felt vindicated. ...more

September 8, 2007