Ann Taylor will be moving out of St. Petersburg's BayWalk shopping center in January, the center's owner said. Developer Fred Bullard, who owns BayWalk, said the women's fashion store had a clause in its lease that allowed it to leave the center if the store's sales fell below a certain level. ...more

December 16, 2008

Americans may be cutting back on holiday shopping, but they are still buying video games - to the tune of nearly $3 billion in November, according to data from market researcher NPD Group. ...more

December 14, 2008

General Motors Corp. said Friday that it will temporarily close 20 factories across North America and make sweeping cuts to its vehicle production as it tries to adjust to dramatically weaker automobile demand. ...more

December 13, 2008

Warrick Dunn's statistics keep piling up. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back has accumulated more than 10,000 rushing yards and 4,000 receiving yards in his stellar career. ...more

December 10, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY Sarah Cooke thought she would be doing a walk-through of her new Habitat for Humanity home today -- until she saw the crowd of people in the driveway. She and her children, son Devin, 15, and daughter Lauren, 10, were greeted outside the home in the New Port Richey neighborhood of Moon Lake by Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Warrick Dunn. ...more

December 9, 2008

A sales manager for Royal Coachman Homes in Spring Hill bilked his employer out of more than $700,000 in the last five years by drawing up and cashing more than 160 fraudulent sales commission checks, authorities say. ...more

December 9, 2008

A sales manager for Royal Coachman Homes in Spring Hill bilked his employer out of more than $700,000 in the last five years by drawing up and cashing more than 160 fraudulent sales commission checks, authorities say. ...more

December 9, 2008

When Ben Novello first stepped into Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza, he got the same rush he felt upon entering his first Outback Steakhouse years earlier. ...more

December 9, 2008

A major drop in prices for recyclable materials has forced a local scrap yard and the Highlands County Recycling Department to store much of what it takes in. ...more

December 5, 2008

November's U.S. vehicle sales at General Motors and Chrysler plunged more than 40 percent, and Ford's sales dropped 31 percent, crushing hopes that the industrywide drop in vehicle demand might be easing as the U.S. automakers prepare to state their second case for a federal bailout. ...more

December 3, 2008