An advisory panel recommended Monday that the 12,800-acre Cone Ranch stay in public ownership forever and be managed under Hillsborough County's conservation lands program. ...more

November 17, 2009

An advisory panel recommended today that the 12,800-acre Cone Ranch stay in public ownership forever, and be managed under Hillsborough County's conservation lands program. ...more

November 16, 2009

I love my home. I can afford my home...barely. Having no children to tell me, "Mom, it's time for you to move to a place where they will make life easier for you," I have long thought I would move to an Aston Gardens or Freedom Plaza by the time I was 70, while I could make the decision with all my faculties. Most of them, anyway. ...more

November 11, 2009

Kraft Foods has gone hostile in its bid to buy Cadbury but didn't sweeten its first bid, drawing an immediate rejection from the British candymaker in what likely will be a lengthy takeover struggle. ...more

November 10, 2009

The Hernando County School District was justified in its decision to deny an application for a charter school for dropouts, the state Board of Education ruled Tuesday. ...more

March 19, 2009

Greg Sausaman was on Dunkin' Donuts' fast track in management in 2003 when he was summoned from Tampa to a meeting in Orlando. ...more

March 1, 2009

State Farm's plan to drop 1.2 million policyholders in Florida will dominate discussions at a two-day summit on property insurance beginning Tuesday in Orlando. ...more

February 24, 2009

State Farm is planning to appeal the state's rejection of its rate filing in court - but don't mistake that for a sign that the company might stick around, company officials said Thursday. ...more

February 6, 2009

The state's toll road authority, Florida's Turnpike Enterprise, says it won't do the $183 million project to link New Tampa Boulevard and Interstate 275 because a four-month study shows it would be too costly. ...more

December 2, 2008

Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. ...more

November 19, 2008