There's a modest storefront at 1800 Drew St. that might give the casual observer the impression the business is there to sell T-shirts. There are golf and T-shirts inside, and a sign out front reads: "USA Financial Retail Store." ...more

May 21, 2008

The county's affordable housing department is under federal investigation, but the county won't say for what. ...more

May 20, 2008

CLEARWATER - The Federal Trade Commission today announced the results of Operation Tele-Phoney, which the agency described as the largest telemarketing investigation in history. The effort involved cooperation with Canada, federal authorities involved with the investigation said at a webcast press conference in Washington this morning. ...more

May 20, 2008

Federal authorities, responding to the subprime-mortgage crisis, have formed a task force to determine whether lenders or Wall Street firms participated in fraud. ...more

May 6, 2008

In notes to her mother and sister, Deborah Jeane Palfrey expressed love and regret for any embarrassment her life might have caused. ...more

May 5, 2008

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse, the subject of an animal-abuse investigation, that provided meat to school lunch programs. ...more

February 18, 2008

Brenda Andujar, grandmother of 4-year-old Joshua Angel Morrow, had heard the stories about people who run down pedestrians and leave them to die in the roadway. ...more

February 9, 2008

TAMPA - An illegal immigrant from Mexico was sentenced to the maximum 30 years in prison this morning for leaving the scene of a December 2006 accident that killed a 4-year-old boy and his great-uncle as they tried to cross the Courtney Campbell Parkway. ...more

February 8, 2008