TAMPA – Once one of the state's biggest road contractors, Michael Cone will spend the next 20 years behind bars, undone, a judge said, by his greed and sheer inability to tell the truth. ...more

May 2, 2008

Congress is set to examine another round of possible repairs for consumers and investors threatened by widening cracks in the housing market. ...more

February 24, 2008

A weak holiday season and a struggling economy led retailers Sharper Image Corp. and Lillian Vernon Corp. to file for bankruptcy this week, and analysts predict others could soon follow them as consumer spending worsens. ...more

February 21, 2008

Students who invested $70,000 in flight training tuition with a Las Vegas-based company that filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy Monday will be a low priority among all of the creditors, according to several lawyers. ...more

February 8, 2008

LAKELAND - Matthew Ogle has wanted to fly since he was 14. ...more

February 7, 2008

Jerry Airola, founder and chief executive of the Las Vegas-based helicopter flight school that closed four academies in Florida and 29 others nationwide on Sunday, was appointed to a Nevada economic advisory group days before his company filed Monday for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. ...more

February 6, 2008

A nationwide helicopter flight school with operations in four Florida cities, including Lakeland, said Monday that it ceased operating and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. ...more

February 5, 2008

Live Oak Preserve developer TOUSA on Tuesday joined a growing list of South Florida homebuilders to file for Chapter 11 restructuring. ...more

January 30, 2008

The developers of the Towers of Channelside, a pair of 29-story luxury condominiums, filed for bankruptcy court protection Friday, stating that Wachovia Corp. cut off its credit. ...more

January 26, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA Spirit Adding TIA Flight Spirit Airlines will add a second daily flight Feb. 14 between Tampa International Airport and Fort Lauderdale with direct connections to a new Spirit flight between Fort Lauderdale and Panama City, Panama. That service will begin Jan. 31 and be offered three days a week. ...more

January 5, 2008