The misery worsened on Wall Street on Tuesday, with stocks piling on losses late in the session and bringing the two-day decline in the Dow Jones industrials to more than 875 points. ...more

October 8, 2008

Wall Street suffered through another extraordinary and traumatic session Monday, with the Dow Jones industrials plunging as much as 800 points - their largest one-day point drop - before recovering to close with a loss of 370. The catalyst for the selling, which also took the Dow below 10,000 for the first time in four years, was investors' growing despair that the spreading credit crisis will take a heavy toll around the world. ...more

October 6, 2008

A public forum Wednesday, Oct. 1, will help determine if the former Baptist Church property along Orange Lake might be converted into a Performing Arts and Cultural Center. ...more

September 25, 2008

A public meeting will be held Tuesday to discuss planned drainage improvements and suggested road upgrades on Lois and Grady avenues in Drew Park. ...more

September 19, 2008

City officials hope to have two signed purchase contracts soon for Harder Hall, but City Council Chairman Bud Whitlock believes the property will never be sold without demolishing the hotel. ...more

September 8, 2008

A local investor group led by John H. Sykes, founder and former chairman of Sykes Enterprises Inc., announced a deal to purchase a controlling stake in the Tampa-based national stock brokerage company Gunn Allen Financial Inc. ...more

September 5, 2008

Great investors are made, not born. They often have to learn from experience. These experiences may differ for each. But there are some common tenets that many of the great ones follow that you can use, too. ...more

August 3, 2008

Coffee chain Starbucks Corp. said Wednesday that costs related to its closure of 600 underperforming stores led it to post a loss for its fiscal third quarter. ...more

July 31, 2008

Regarding "401(k) Rule Finally Reveals Hidden Fees" (Our Opinion, July 24): The new rule proposed by the Department of Labor that investors be told how much they are being charged for management of their assets in 401(k)s is definitely a move in the right direction. Similar transparency of management and administrative fees being charged investors by all mutual funds and financial managers of other peoples' money needs to happen. It is unacceptable to me as it should be to all investors that someone can have their hands in my wallet, help themselves to my money and not have to tell me how much they are taking and when they took it! ...more

July 27, 2008

Boy band architect Lou Pearlman has been transferred to a federal penitentiary in southeast Atlanta to serve his 25-year prison sentence. ...more

July 25, 2008