Citigroup Inc. said Monday it has filed a complaint in New York Supreme Court against Wachovia, Wells Fargo and the directors of both companies seeking more than $60 billion in damages for interfering with its planned takeover of Wachovia's banking operations. ...more

October 7, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - Brother, can you spare a billion? More like $700 billion, to be precise. ...more

October 5, 2008

Welcome to a new day for The Tampa Tribune. What you hold isn't just another newspaper redesign. This is a different newspaper to fit the lives of busy readers like you who are hungry for useful, relevant information. ...more

October 5, 2008

Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, acting commander of U.S. Central Command, marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by addressing ROTC cadets at the University of South Florida. ...more

September 30, 2008

It's hard to remember which came first, breaking news or cable TV news. ...more

September 28, 2008

Randy Goggin of New Port Richey says Gov. Sarah Palin has more governmental experience than Sen. Barack Obama. ...more

September 27, 2008

Wachovia Corp. has begun preliminary merger talks with Banco Santander SA of Spain, Wells Fargo & Co. of San Francisco and Citigroup Inc. of New York, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. ...more

September 27, 2008

As acts of Congress go, the one hacked out in hopes of staving off Great Depression 2008, Return to Misery, appears to be an equal-opportunity offender. Left, right, center or blissfully uninvolved, everyone is bound to identify something about the $700 billion package that stinks like backwoods roadkill on a summer night. ...more

September 26, 2008

Sometimes you don't know when you are lucky. Certainly I did not consider myself lucky when I left home at 17 and discovered the hard way that there was no great demand for a black teenage dropout with no experience and no skill. ...more

September 24, 2008

To listen to Sen. Barack Obama, Sen. John McCain is a Johnny-come-lately to the cause of regulating financial markets. "He has consistently opposed the sorts of common-sense regulations that might have lessened the current crisis," Obama said in New Mexico Thursday. "When I was warning about the danger ahead on Wall Street months ago because of the lack of oversight, Senator McCain was telling the Wall Street Journal - and I - 'I'm always for less regulation.' " ...more

September 23, 2008