It's a cool idea, Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. At long last, the feminist icon would represent the feminist ideal of getting a room of her own, all on her own. ...more

November 19, 2008

Michael Tringali, indicted in July along with former partner Neil Mohamed Husani and two other men on federal charges that they orchestrated an $82.8 million scheme to defraud seven banks on Florida's west coast, is seeking a federal judge's permission to travel to Atlanta as needed for business. ...more

August 29, 2008

Less than a month after losing his chairman post and more than two years after an ill-timed acquisition of California mortgage lender Golden West Financial Corp., Wachovia Corp. said Monday that board members have forced CEO Ken Thompson to retire from the nation's fourth-largest bank. ...more

June 3, 2008

ChoicePoint, a 1997 spinoff of credit agency Equifax, is being acquired by the parent of LexisNexis in a cash deal worth $3.6 billion, a major premium for a company that weathered an embarrassing breach of its database, federal investigations and a stock-trading probe of its top two executives. ...more

February 22, 2008

Marion Jones said she was scared. She said she was sorry. With a catch in her voice, she said her young sons needed her. ...more

January 12, 2008

The public is invited to a free one-man show by writer, director and performer Bob Devin Jones of St. Petersburg at 2 p.m. Sunday at Brandon Regional Library, 619 Vonderburg Drive. Jones will portray Harry T. Moore, generally considered the first civil rights martyr in America, the night before he was killed and his wife, Harriette, was fatally injured by a bomb exploding under the floor of their bedroom on Christmas Day 1951, in Mims. ...more

January 7, 2008

The 2007 season will be remembered, for good or ill, as the year Barry Bonds passed Henry Aaron on the all-time home run list. ...more

October 1, 2007