General Motors on Thursday morning posted a loss of $30.9 billion in 2008 as the auto giant suffered one of its worst years in decades and as company leaders prepared to meet with U.S. government officials to detail the need for more federal money to survive. ...more

February 27, 2009

Federal regulators said Thursday after a lengthy review that they could not determine how much speculators have influenced commodity prices, especially the run-up earlier this year in oil prices. ...more

September 12, 2008

The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to allow about 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences. ...more

December 12, 2007

It has 28 wheels, weighs 463 tons and travels at a ponderous 262 feet per minute, or 3 mph, but it could be the key to expanding Port Manatee's business. ...more

November 24, 2007