MIAMI (AP) - The head of a state agency that allowed thousands of criminals to sell home loans in Florida has acknowledged that his office did not follow a screening law, but blamed legislators for failing to provide money to enforce it. ...more

July 25, 2008

The head of a state agency that allowed thousands of criminals to sell home loans in Florida has acknowledged his office did not follow a screening law but blamed legislators for failing to provide money to enforce it. ...more

July 25, 2008

The head of a state agency that allowed thousands of criminals to sell home loans in Florida has acknowledged that his office did not follow a screening law, but blamed legislators for failing to provide money to enforce it. ...more

July 24, 2008

Diane Klein wasn't sure what she would trust more to hold her money - IndyMac Bank or a hole in her backyard. ...more

July 17, 2008

Police ordered angry customers lined up outside an IndyMac Bank branch to remain calm or face arrest Tuesday as they tried to pull their money out on the second day of the failed institution's federal takeover. ...more

July 16, 2008

IndyMac Bank's assets were seized by federal regulators on Friday after the mortgage lender succumbed to the pressures of tighter credit, tumbling home prices and rising foreclosures. ...more

July 12, 2008

State ethics commissioners have cleared Hillsborough County Commissioner Brian Blair of charges he used his position to interfere in regulatory action by the county's Environmental Protection Commission. ...more

June 13, 2008

Give credit to the folks who loved gill nets in 1994. They never gave up. Today, 14 years after a majority of Florida's citizens passed a constitutional amendment to get rid of entangling nets, the die-hard netters are still trying to find a way around the ruling. ...more

June 4, 2008

I should have known: Call people suckers and they'll take offense. A number of folks were either confused or offended when I said recently that we are all suckers - that is, losers - when we use credit to pay for services and goods. ...more

May 25, 2008

The developers of Cypress Creek Town Center have been cleared to do additional earthwork on their mothballed mall site, but only to prevent flooding should the site be hit with heavy rainfall this summer. ...more

May 22, 2008