Three businessmen and a Sarasota lawyer have been charged with participating in an $82.8 million mortgage loan scheme that defrauded seven banks, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Monday. ...more

July 29, 2008

Three businessmen and a Sarasota lawyer have been charged with participating in an $82.8 million mortgage loan fraud, a scheme which defrauded seven banks, the U.S. Attorney's Office said this morning. ...more

July 28, 2008

Church volunteers from Savannah, Ga., are in town this week, painting an old pool hall community leaders in Tommytown hope to turn into a teen center. ...more

July 24, 2008

Spring Hill's fastest-growing retail center has doubled its lineup. ...more

July 20, 2008

Last year, Projects of Pasco distributed free school supplies to 1,286 children in Dade City, Zephyrhills, Wesley Chapel and Land O' Lakes. The group is kicking off its fifth year of working to ensure east and central Pasco County youngsters are prepared for school. ...more

July 18, 2008

Customers storming George Bailey's building and loan in the 1946 classic "It's a Wonderful Life" might seem more likely today, given the run on California-based IndyMac this week. ...more

July 17, 2008

The city will seek conventional means to finance the parking garage and land for an arts and education center in its 20.36-acre redevelopment area south of Bullard Parkway and east of Busch Boulevard. ...more

July 2, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - A man working at a construction site was arrested this week in connection with a bank robbery in Seminole in October. ...more

June 19, 2008

SEBRING – There seems to be quite a bit of commercial office space available in the area, but not at the refurbished Wachovia Bank building in Sebring. Nearly all of the space in the 32,840 square-foot building located next to Burger King has been leased. That's good news for Jimmy and Jeri Wohl and Martha and David Hatch. The couples, who are partners in 3200 Properties LLC, took ownership of the building last August. "We're just real happy to be about full not even a year into ownership," David Hatch said. The two couples have spent several thousand dollars on the building, which was built in 1998 by Thomas Wohl and had damage on the third and fourth floors from Hurricane Charley in 2004. ...more

June 14, 2008

Students from Metropolitan Ministries Academy and Rampello Downtown Partnership School participated in recent photography workshops. ...more

June 14, 2008