St. Petersburg, Florida--Nothing like the smell of coffee to start off the day! With so many studies out there about coffee, it's hard to remember whether our morning cup of Joe does the body any good - or ...
A convenience store owner shot in the head Sunday during a robbery has died, causing criminal charges against two men charged in his shooting to be upgraded to first-degree murder, police said.
St. Petersburg, FL - Administrators at Eckerd College in southern Pinellas County are closely monitoring Tropical Storm Fay and reports from the ......
Standing in front of his office in St. Petersburg last week, Lou Brown says he doesn't understand the lack of outrage in the community after a young black man was killed by police this summer.
Two more suicides at Tampa General - St. Petersburg Times By Rebecca Catalanello - August 12 TAMPA - Two patients in Tampa General Hospital's psychiatric unit hanged themselves with bedsheets last month two ...
AP - Troubled home borrowers with loans from IndyMac Federal Bank will be able to switch to fixed-rate mortgages under a new plan from federal regulators, who seized the bank last month after it became the largest regulated thrift to fail......
FT.com - More UK fund managers, it seems, think their home market is cheap than at any time since the dark days of 2003. And despite that, they are sitting on record levels of cash. Or so the latest Merrill Lynch fund manager survey tells us......
Freddie Mac was forced to offer unusually rich terms in a $3 billion auction of its debt, fueling concerns about a possible bailout for the mortgage giant and its sibling, Fannie Mae......
The specter of job losses is beginning to take a toll on apartment buildings as would-be renters are doubling up in apartments or moving in with friends and families......
Home Depot's profit fell 24% on lower sales as the home-improvement retailer struggled to sell big-ticket items. (Home Depot conference-call transcript......
Alliance & Leicester, a British bank, sold about $745.7 million of high-quality bonds backed by home loans this week in a rare sign of life in the market for mortgage securities......
Shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plunged amid concerns that the providers of funding for U.S. home mortgages won't be able to avoid a government bailout......
Hong Kong's former top housing official Leung Chin-man stepped down as executive director and vice chairman of New World China, as the firm acknowledged that accusations of a conflict of interest had taken a political toll......
Ultramodern skyscrapers, new stadiums and a 610-meter-high television and sightseeing structure are in the works in Guangzhou, China's manufacturing hub, as it prepares to host the Asian Games in 2010......
Washington policy makers and housing industry insiders hope a new tax credit for first-time home buyers will get the moribund housing market moving again.
Single-family home prices dropped 7.7% in the first quarter in the largest year-over-year decline since the National Association of Realtors began reporting prices in 1982.
The housing implosion is nowhere near over. In 75 of the 100 top U.S. cities, prices are expected to fall in the next 12 months according to Fiserv Lending Solutions.
Real estate prices continued to post steep year-over-year declines during the three months ended June 30, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).
The foreclosure juggernaut lurched forward in July as banks took back 77,295 homes - up 8% in a month and 183% in a year, a report issued Thursday shows.
After Casey Weldon Till attacked a family Sunday night near Haines City, killing one person and stabbing two others in what appears to be a random act of violence, he went home and told his family what he had done, Polk County sheriff's deputies said.......
Nearly 31/2 years after hoards of volunteers helped law enforcement search east Hillsborough County for Sarah Michelle Lunde, a jury is set to decide whether David Lee Onstott is guilty of murdering the 13-year-old.......
Since Saturday when two women told authorities they were abducted and sexually assaulted when they were closing an Apollo Beach business, employees at a nearby hair salon have been taking extra precautions.......
Canine lovers on Davis Islands are known to run their pets down to the dog park on lazy Saturday mornings, after which many then head straight for the business district to grab some coffee or a midmorning snack.......
Florida Democrats may seek to remove the Democratic candidate who filed for the state House seat being vacated by Trey Traviesa, so they can replace him with a stronger candidate.......
Two years ago, local environmentalist Mariella Smith asked Hillsborough County to consider buying a piece of property to connect wetlands near the Little Manatee River with a rare scrub habitat and creek system near Manatee County.......
Gov. Charlie Crist said Tuesday that he plans to take at least $600 million from state reserves to plug part of the $1.5 billion budget hole expected this year. But he's not interested, he said, in bringing lawmakers back to the capital for a special session to prioritize cuts to state spending.......
As he battled pancreatic cancer, Harvey Waite encouraged his wife to continue her race for a fourth two-year term to the U.S. House of Representatives.......
The State Board of Education proposed an increase Tuesday of nearly $1.2 billion in spending for Florida's public schools and community colleges in the next budget year.......
His wife is so stunned, she cannot talk. His 2-year-old son cannot understand why his father hasn't come home from the convenience store he has owned for eight years.......