TAMPA - As multimillionaire real estate investor Steven Green remains incapacitated in a New York hospital, a team of managers at his company are working feverishly to prevent the company from collapsing before the entrepreneur can pay more than $4 million in court-ordered restitution, according to testimony at a federal hearing this morning. ...more

December 10, 2007

Between March 2002 and March 2004, a Tampa mortgage broker refinanced loans for older homeowners of modest means, scamming more than $400,000 to supplement a legitimate income that came close to six figures a year. ...more

December 8, 2007

TAMPA - Between March 2002 and March 2004, a Tampa mortgage broker refinanced loans for elderly homeowners of modest means, scamming more than $400,000 to supplement his legitimate income that came close to six figures a year. He testified this morning that he has nothing to show for his two-year windfall except about $1,500 in a bank account. ...more

December 7, 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

TAMPA - A Brandon mortgage broker has pleaded guilty to aggravated white collar crime and other charges in a fraud scheme that bilked more than $400,000 from more than 20 people, officials said. ...more

November 5, 2007

The Devil Rays gave pitching coach Jim Hickey a second chance Thursday. ...more

November 2, 2007

The Devil Rays didn't clarify pitching coach Jim Hickey's job status after he pleaded no contest Monday to a drunken-driving charge, but the way he has handled the incident seems to bode well for his chances of returning. ...more

October 30, 2007

There has been a falling out between an attorney for prison-bound landlord Steven Green and Green's mother, who has been appointed Green's temporary guardian because of his extensive brain injuries, according to court documents. ...more

October 30, 2007

TAMPA - There has been a falling out between an attorney for notorious landlord Steven Green and Green's mother, who has been appointed Green's temporary guardian because of his extensive brain injuries, according to court documents. ...more

October 29, 2007

A funeral director's license has been suspended after the family of a dead man received two sets of cremated remains from the director's funeral home, state officials said. ...more

October 17, 2007