It used to be simple: Grab a bottle of water and go. Once seen as the hallmark of healthy living, bottled water is facing a backlash from environmentalists who worry about all those discarded plastic containers, more than 80 percent of which end up in landfills and incinerators. Then there's the practical argument: Why pay for something that flows freely from the faucet? ...more

December 19, 2007

Intelligence tests widely used to help determine the competence of criminal defendants and the placement of students are for sale on eBay's online auction site, and the test maker is worried they will be misused. ...more

December 19, 2007

Marlene and Lewis Mann took one look at the giant oaks in the Woodland Acres subdivision and knew this was where they'd raise their family and eventually retire. ...more

December 9, 2007

After months of being dragged down by Florida's sinking housing market, Miami-based builder Lennar Corp. on Tuesday walked away from its planned Epperson Ranch project on Curley Road. ...more

December 5, 2007

Miami-based Lennar Corp. on Tuesday walked away from developments planned for Pasco, Hillsborough and five other Florida counties. The troubled builder sold 8,300 homesites to Tampa-based Metro Development Group for an undisclosed sum. ...more

December 4, 2007

Hillsborough County needs to either raise its residential trash rates or pay millions in restitution to its franchise haulers for failing to amend a trash ordinance earlier this month, attorneys for two major trash-hauling firms say. ...more

November 21, 2007

Blockbuster video sent a letter about corporate document shredding policies to all its stores this week after a Sarasota store's membership forms and employment applications were discovered in a trash container. ...more

October 24, 2007

Volkswagen is moving its North American headquarters out of the Detroit area - the nation's automotive capital - to the suburbs of the nation's capital and will cut 400 jobs in the process, the German auto maker said Thursday. ...more

September 7, 2007

Chrysler pulled off a major coup Thursday, hiring away the highly-regarded Jim Press, Toyota's top North American executive, to run its sales and marketing operations. ...more

September 7, 2007