A state Senate committee today approved a bill that would require Florida's electric utilities to get 20 percent of their power from "clean" energy, including nuclear and coal, by 2020. ...more

March 31, 2009

Banks and savings institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported net losses of $26.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008. ...more

March 22, 2009

101 Percentage increase in business bankruptcies from 2007 to 2008 in Florida's Middle District ...more

March 15, 2009

It was an awful December for carmakers, but the fortunes were most terrible for Chrysler LLC, which said Monday that sales plunged 53 percent. ...more

January 6, 2009

Residents and businesses in the Tampa Bay area soon will be paying a lot more for electricity. ...more

November 13, 2008

TAMPA - Residents and businesses in the Tampa Bay area soon will be paying a lot more for electricity. Customers of Tampa Electric Co. and Progress Energy will see a double-digit percentage increase in their electric bills beginning next year under plans approved today by state regulators. ...more

November 12, 2008

BY THE NUMBERS $108 million: What State Farm Florida earned in 2007 ...more

August 12, 2008

Policyholders State Farm will drop this year. ...more

July 24, 2008

The Highlands County School District should be thankful that none of its schools have ended up on a dubious federal list of "drop out factories," schools where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. But that's no cause to celebrate. Even though the dropout rate at Highlands' schools is nowhere as bad as the 150 state schools gracing the list, a greater percentage of students are dropping out of high school in Highlands. ...more

November 5, 2007

SEBRING — The Highlands County School District and the teachers union reached a tentative agreement Wednesday on an 18-month teachers contract. ...more

October 10, 2007