The 20 largest banks that received government rescue funds slightly reduced their lending to consumers and businesses in the last three months of 2008, the government said Tuesday. ...more

February 18, 2009

St. Petersburg police are looking for two men they say robbed a Bank of America this morning. ...more

February 17, 2009

A developer is selling property at Gandy and West Shore boulevards where hoped to build a "green" housing development and has asked the city to reduce the size of his community development district, or CDD, so that the owners of a commercially zoned parcel where he planned to build several restaurants and shops can put their land on the market. ...more

February 17, 2009

Two Florida banks are joining some of the country's largest lenders in temporarily halting foreclosures as the federal government tackles the housing crisis. ...more

February 15, 2009

MIAMI (AP) - Two Florida banks are joining some of the country's largest lenders in temporarily halting foreclosures as the federal government tackles the housing crisis. ...more

February 15, 2009

The Manatee County Sheriff's Office is looking for a 38-year-old woman considered a possible suspect in the robbery of a Bank of America today. ...more

February 14, 2009

Nearly 100 federal banking regulators descended on Citigroup in New York on Wednesday morning. Dozens more fanned out through Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and other big banks across the nation. ...more

February 14, 2009

Saturday was a day of firsts for East Pasco Habitat for Humanity. For the first time, Bank of America fully funded and provided volunteer staff for an East Pasco Habitat home, one of six Habitat homes the Bank of America Charitable Foundation is sponsoring across the country as part of a $6 million commitment to Habitat for Humanity International. ...more

February 13, 2009

A man who rode his bicycle to and from a 2006 bank robbery received a one-way ticket to prison Thursday. ...more

February 12, 2009

Nine Florida banks, including one in the Tampa Bay area, have applied for and received $164 million in bailout money under the federal government's $700 billion rescue package of financial institutions, according to the latest data from the U.S. Treasury Department. ...more

February 10, 2009