A financial company in Dunedin under investigation by the Florida attorney general is closing its office. ...more

December 5, 2008

Passers-by lifted a sport utility vehicle off a driver after it rolled over in St. Petersburg this afternoon, police say. The driver later died. ...more

December 4, 2008

A 4-year-old Brandon girl is on a long road to recovery from the crash that killed her mother, and her grandmother thinks she'll be walking by February, beating therapists' expectations. ...more

December 4, 2008

A financial company in Dunedin under investigation by the Florida attorney general is closing its office. ...more

December 3, 2008

Detroit's automakers are making a second bid for $25 billion in congressional funding this week. CEOs from General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, who were criticized last month for traveling to Washington separately by private jets and faced pointed questions about their salaries, are seeking to defuse those issues. ...more

December 3, 2008

Police arrested William Balfour, the estranged brother-in-law of Jennifer Hudson, on Monday in the deaths of the entertainer's mother, brother and young nephew, taking him from a prison where he had been held on a suspected parole violation. ...more

December 1, 2008

Two people on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle were killed this afternoon when a Chevrolet sport utility vehicle, traveling the wrong direction, hit them head-on, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

November 29, 2008

Two witnesses fought flames spurting out the back of a car that was crumpled by an alleged drunken driver in a rear-end collision that killed a local soup kitchen manager around 6 a.m. Friday. ...more

November 29, 2008

Authorities say a deputy driving an unmarked vehicle struck a Collier County ambulance carrying a 70-year-old patient, causing the ambulance to overturn. ...more

November 29, 2008

In October, Porsche announced that it had acquired a nearly 43 percent stake in Volkswagen with an option to buy 32 percent more. Without anybody noticing, Porsche, maker of scarcely 100,000 cars per year, had cornered a 75 percent position in VW, which cranks out nearly 6 million vehicles. ...more

November 27, 2008