"The Bucs are on a bye! Now they can't lose!" Some variation of that declaration was virtually unavoidable for fans all last week. With the 35-7 British Browbeating still fresh and an 0-7 record a numbing reality, sarcastic mockery comes as no surprise. ...more

November 9, 2009

A St. Petersburg man was arrested Thursday, accused of taking a woman's Super Bowl tickets, ostensibly to sell them on her behalf, and then failing to return to her any money for them. Thomas Coelho, 40, of 555 Ninth Ave. N.E., was charged with scheme to defraud. Bail was set at $100,000. ...more

July 10, 2009

By all accounts, Bernard Madoff isn't talking, and his wife, his sons, his brother and other key employees have lawyered up. ...more

March 14, 2009

Bernard Madoff will plead guilty Thursday to 11 criminal counts including money laundering, perjury and securities, mail and wire fraud and will do so without a plea deal, knowing it carries a potential prison term of 150 years, lawyers said today in court. ...more

March 10, 2009

Bernard Madoff's amazing Ponzi scheme has put him in a league of his own, for now. He shouldn't be alone for long. ...more

December 20, 2008

Dear President Bush, They say you can't always believe what you read in the papers. So, when I read that Marion Jones has applied to you for a pardon or commutation of her federal conviction for making false statements to investigators, I couldn't believe it. She lied to federal agents. She took steroids. She made false statements in a bank fraud investigation - not necessarily in that order. She admitted it. And now she apparently wants to be let off. ...more

July 24, 2008

It's official: Sen. Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee for president. ...more

June 7, 2008

In what appears to be the largest trading fraud ever carried out by a single person, a young trader at French bank Societe Generale is accused of making unauthorized bets on stock markets that cost the bank nearly $7.2 billion but may not have netted him a cent. ...more

January 25, 2008