Kathy Burke is CEO at Brooksville Regional Hospital and interim CEO at Spring Hill Regional. ...more

August 31, 2008

Luxury homebuilder WCI Communities, which has a large, waterfront project under way in South Tampa, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday morning. ...more

August 5, 2008

Luxury home builder WCI Communities Inc., which has a large project in Tampa, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this morning. This comes after the Bonita Springs-based company failed to obtain new financing and some holders of $125 million convertible notes insisted last week on being paid in cash in August. ...more

August 4, 2008

On his first day as the new CEO of Wachovia Corp., Robert Steel saw the stock tumble to a 17-year low and faced questions about his ability to rescue the nation's fourth-largest bank from its own missteps and the roiling credit market. ...more

July 11, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA Crispers Chief Charged An interim chief executive officer of the Crispers restaurant chain has been charged with federal crimes in connection with a scheme to steal from the company. ...more

June 4, 2008

A former interim CEO of the Crispers restaurant chain has agreed to plead guilty to several charges in a scheme to steal from the company. ...more

June 3, 2008

Four major newspaper publishers have created an online advertising sales network in the latest industry attempt to claw back ad dollars that increasingly are migrating to the Internet. ...more

February 16, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA Bank Of America Cuts Jobs Bank of America plans to close two local call centers, beginning with April's shuttering of its 70-employee Sales Fulfillment Center at 5301 W. Idlewild Ave. Two months later, 154 employees will be laid off with the closing of its Deposit Contact Center, 4109 Gandy Blvd. The bank is streamlining call center operations, and the cutbacks are not related to the downturn in the housing and mortgage industries, said bank spokeswoman Britney Sheehan. Some work now at the Idlewild and Gandy facilities will be shifted to the bank's call centers in Jacksonville and Arizona. Some will be moved to other call centers in the Tampa Bay area. ...more

February 1, 2008

Sears Holdings Corp. abruptly announced the departure of President and chief executive Aylwin B. Lewis on Monday, leaving a management void at the top of the department store chain controlled by chairman Edward S. Lampert as it tries a high-stakes restructuring to reconnect with customers and reinvigorate slumping sales. ...more

January 29, 2008

Citigroup Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Charles Prince, beset by the company's billions of dollars in losses from investing in bad debt, resigned Sunday and is being replaced as chairman by former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. ...more

November 5, 2007