WellCare Health Plans' top three executives have resigned, three months after the company's Tampa headquarters was raided by federal agents. ...more

January 25, 2008

Shares of WellCare Health Plans continued to slump Thursday amid reports of the possible departure of its top three executives, and analysts at one Wall Street firm said they are not only expecting the housecleaning, but would not be surprised to see the sale of the company. ...more

January 25, 2008

Shares in WellCare Health Plans continued to drift lower today after a Wall Street Journal blog reported that the company's three top executives were being shown the door. ...more

January 24, 2008

A former Republican member of Congress from Michigan was indicted Wednesday in connection with his work for a U.S.-based Islamic relief organization that allegedly supported a prominent Afghan warlord. ...more

January 17, 2008

TAMPA - Now that U.S. marshals have brought Daniel L. Prewett back from Italy to face federal cocaine distribution charges, one of the Sarasota investment company owner's co-defendants is missing. ...more

January 11, 2008

When investigators from a Tampa-based operation seized 27 tons of cocaine from two ships, they hit one of Colombia's most powerful drug organizations, the Norte del Valle Cartel, a federal prosecutor said today. ...more

November 21, 2007

A man tied to two ships seized with 27 tons of cocaine in 2004 was arrested Sunday in Colombia and is expected to be extradited and tried in federal court in Tampa. The federal government has designated him as one of the top 30 international drug traffickers in the world and he has worked for a man on the FBI's 10-Most Wanted List. ...more

November 20, 2007

A 64-year-old St. Petersburg man described in court papers as "a sex tourist of epic proportion" has been sentenced to more than nine years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to federal charges, admitting he traveled to Asia to have sex with children. ...more

November 17, 2007

A 64-year-old St. Petersburg man described in court papers as "a sex tourist of epic proportion" has been sentenced to more than nine years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to federal charges, admitting he traveled to Asia to have sex with children. ...more

November 16, 2007

A Tampa police detective and an FBI agent paid large sums of money to a known thief, liar and convicted felon, using him as their chief informant during an investigation of the Latin Kings street gang, a defense attorney is trying to prove in a hearing that began Thursday. ...more

November 9, 2007