Federal agents seized computers, bank and investment records, cash and even the key to a Ferrari during an all-night search at the office of a lawyer suspected of operating a massive fraud scheme. ...more

November 7, 2009

The state Commission on Ethics will officially investigate the actions of Hillsborough County Administrator Pat Bean and County Attorney Renee Lee regarding 1 percent raises they got in 2007. ...more

October 24, 2009

A special House committee meets for the first time at 9 a.m. today to consider charges of ethical misconduct that a special investigator has made against former House Speaker Ray Sansom. ...more

August 4, 2009

Spoto High School baseball coach Larry Benton must meet with professional standards staff after his arrest on a misdemeanor charge of soliciting someone to commit prostitution. ...more

July 1, 2009

Spoto baseball coach Larry Benton was arrested Saturday on a misdemeanor charge of soliciting another to commit prostitution, according to a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office charge report. ...more

June 29, 2009

A Brooksville man was arrested Sunday on charges that he sexually molested an 8-year-old girl. ...more

April 13, 2009

Two administrators at the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg are suspected of having stolen tens of thousands of dollars in state funds by having checks made to companies that didn't provide any products in return, according to court documents. ...more

March 23, 2009

AIG, better known as American International Group, is an insurance company that lost $61.7 billion dollars in the fourth quarter of 2008 — a new record — then got $170 billion dollars of taxpayer money to save it from going bankrupt. ...more

March 20, 2009

By all accounts, Bernard Madoff isn't talking, and his wife, his sons, his brother and other key employees have lawyered up. ...more

March 14, 2009

When a former employee filed a lawsuit against the Tampa Sports Authority in 2008, executive director Henry Saavedra waited months before telling the authority's board. ...more

March 13, 2009