The Tampa Downtown Rotary recently presented a check for $3,500 to the Wheels of Success program for Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties. The donation, which will be matched by the Eckerd Foundation, will help provide vehicle replacement, car repairs, related licensing services, car payments and car care classes for qualified working poor who are without reliable transportation. ...more

April 1, 2009

Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. are offering payment protection plans to help reassure consumers who may be putting off buying a new car because of worries about losing their job. ...more

March 31, 2009

A Tampa man who couldn't afford his car payments paid a man $200 to burn the vehicle, investigators say. ...more

January 13, 2009

The collapse of Wall Street and the freeze of credit markets can be traced to one unlikely culprit: Cindy Crawford. ...more

October 8, 2008

ST. AUGUSTINE (AP) - First came the health problems. Then, unable to work, Ada Noda watched the bills pile up. And then, suffocating in debt, the 80-year-old did something she never thought she'd be forced to do. ...more

August 31, 2008

First came the health problems. Then, unable to work, Ada Noda watched the bills pile up. And then, suffocating in debt, the 80-year-old did something she never thought she'd be forced to do. ...more

August 28, 2008

Chances are you've probably seen Anjelah Johnson. Perhaps it was on "MADtv," YouTube, or as an Oakland Raiderette. Through Sunday you can see the comedian live at the Tampa Improv. ...more

August 7, 2008

LAND O'LAKES - More than $20,000 has disappeared from the coffers of the Land O'Lakes volunteer fire department, and the department's treasurer has been arrested. The Pasco County sheriff's office charged Alicia Long Puertas, 32, of Lutz, with felony grand theft of more than $20,000. On Saturday, Puertas was in the Land O'Lakes jail on $10,000 bond. ...more

November 3, 2007