A man who rode his bicycle to and from a 2006 bank robbery received a one-way ticket to prison Thursday. ...more

February 12, 2009

City Manager Billy Poe has a vision in his head for downtown's Meridian Avenue. ...more

February 7, 2009

A Sarasota lawyer has admitted participating in what authorities have said was an $82.7 million mortgage loan scheme that defrauded seven banks. ...more

February 4, 2009

Many of Pasco's business and government leaders turned out last week perhaps hoping one of the Southeast's top bank economists had some words of hope for the county's struggling economy. Mark Vitner, senior economist of regional banker Wachovia, was the featured speaker at a luncheon held as part of the West Pasco Chamber of Commerce's Business Development Week. What he said underlines the county's failure over three decades to create an economy not almost totally dependent on housing construction and sales. ...more

February 4, 2009

The good news, economist Mark Vitner told Pasco County business leaders Friday, is the recession should bottom out at the end of this year. ...more

January 31, 2009

Jeffrey Gordon Merritt used a lunch bag and a BB pistol he bought for $30 from Wal-Mart to rob four banks in four months."Let's just get this over with," he told a teller at Andersen Bank in Palm Harbor on Sept. 16. ...more

January 29, 2009

St. Petersburg robbery detectives are looking for an "oversized" bandit they say robbed a Wachovia bank branch shortly after noon Tuesday. ...more

January 28, 2009

Newly merged with Wachovia Bank, Wells Fargo has named a new leader for its Florida operations. ...more

January 21, 2009

Tiger Woods sometimes will glance over his shoulder on his highway to history, not worried about anyone on his bumper but curious to see what the traffic looks like behind him. ...more

January 8, 2009

Tampa police are looking for three men accused of forcing Wachovia bank employees at gunpoint to open a safe. The attempted robbery occurred at 7:52 a.m. Tuesday at 214 S. Hyde Park Ave. ...more

December 17, 2008