A federal bankruptcy judge signed off Tuesday on a plan to raise tens of thousands of dollars for victims of the Bernard Madoff fraud by auctioning off pricey New York Mets season tickets owned by the disgraced financier's investment firm. ...more

April 15, 2009

Circuit City Stores Inc. has received court approval to sell off its Canadian operations as word came that the company faces a class-action lawsuit by lawyers claiming some laid-off employees were not paid federally mandated WARN Act payments. ...more

March 27, 2009

Ernie Haire Ford caught a break Tuesday when a federal bankruptcy judge ordered several major banks to continue lending to the dealership's customers. ...more

January 7, 2009

Ernie Haire Ford caught a break Tuesday when a federal bankruptcy judge ordered several major banks to continue lending to the bankrupt dealership's customers. ...more

January 6, 2009

Top draft pick Sedrick Ellis will be lost to the New Orleans Saints for two to four weeks with a right knee injury. ...more

October 4, 2008

Shells Seafood Restaurants is seeking to give up its quest to stay open, asking a federal bankruptcy judge to allow it to liquidate its assets. ...more

September 24, 2008

It was just the sort of party Bette Lou Corcoran would have loved. Glasses tinkling, voices buzzing, the occasional eruption of laughter. Although weather forecasters delivered ominous warnings about a possible hurricane named Fay, the panoramic sunset view of Tampa Bay from the 38th-floor University Club was positively sublime. ...more

August 24, 2008

Trump Tower Tampa buyers with $3.6 million in deposits held in escrow might get that money back. And the lawsuit involving Donald Trump and a local developer who failed to build the tower can move forward, a federal bankruptcy judge ruled Friday. ...more

July 19, 2008

Trump Tower Tampa buyers, with $3.6 million in deposits held in escrow, might get that money back. And the lawsuit involving Donald Trump and a local developer who failed to build the tower can move forward, a federal bankruptcy judge ruled today. ...more

July 18, 2008

TAMPA – More than a dozen local Church's Chicken fast food outlets will be put on the block next month when the company that operates the restaurants sells its assets under the approval of a federal bankruptcy judge. ...more

July 2, 2008