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Let me confess, I have a weakness for slides. Fast curvy slides. So testing the Black Hole - a fast double-helix slide at Bradenton's Planet Fun - and giggling all [...]

The new 200,000-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter at 5325 Cortez Ave., already looks like a behemoth on its dusty lot. And it will be among Bradenton retailers as well. As the Arkansas [...]

Wellcraft Marine has put its Manatee County headquarters and its two newest manufacturing plants on the market for $7 million. The listings are a bid to make the manufacturer more [...]

Knight-Ridder Inc. has appointed a new publisher and president of the Bradenton Herald to succeed Dorothy S. Ridings. Craig Wells, 47, president and publisher of the Aberdeen (S.D.) American News, [...]

Will the arrests, prison time and public humiliation of those involved in the Manatee Memorial Hospital kickback scheme turn around lives once rife with greed and lies? Only time will [...]

As more details emerge about the conduct of the six people charged in the Manatee Memorial Hospital kickback conspiracy, it becomes a modern tale of the seven deadly sins: pride, [...]

The state's growers lost more than $50 million in Sunday night's freeze, the Florida Department of Agriculture estimates. The losses were spread throughout the state, but some of the worst [...]

American Bank of Bradenton, through its new holding company American Bancshares Inc., sold 1.25 million shares of stock Tuesday for its first public offering. The company sold the shares at [...]

West Coast Tomato in Palmetto lost well over $1 million in tomato crops between Sunday night and Monday morning, sales manager Bob Spencer estimated. What plants survived Sunday night's freeze [...]

A Bradenton man, who as a Bradenton mortgage broker was acquitted on several counts of mortgage fraud in the mid-1980s, has been convicted of five counts of bank fraud in [...]

Consumers might like more pulp in their OJ, but they don't like to get pulped up with more fiber. Or so Tropicana Dole Beverages has decided. The Bradenton orange juice [...]

The six co-conspirators in the Manatee Memorial Hospital kickback conspiracy have forfeited $699,936 in property and monies to the federal government as of Tuesday, according to the Federal Bureau of [...]

Fort Myers -- A federal jury found Scott and Lisa Moore guilty on all counts Monday during a trial involving inflated construction contracts and kickbacks at Manatee Memorial Hospital in [...]

Some years - after 65-hour weeks, summer heat, winter freezes and lousy markets for their crops - the only thing that's left for Southwest Florida's family farmers is their desire [...]

FORT MYERS -- The Manatee Memorial Hospital construction kickback trial - a trial filled with testimony about greed, prostitutes, cocaine, amorality and betrayal may end Monday when the jury begins [...]

More charges of kickbacks and cocaine use surfaced during hardball cross-examination in the third day of the federal construction kickback trial at Manatee Memorial Hospital. A sweating Scott Moore, the [...]

FORT MYERS _ The federal government's probe into the kickback conspiracy at Manatee Memorial Hospital got cut short when one of the targets grew suspicious and searched the office of [...]

FORT MYERS -- Prostitutes, cocaine, boats, Lear Jet rides. The Super Bowl, trips to Costa Rica. Testimony Tuesday in a federal trial about construction kickbacks at Manatee Memorial Hospital shows [...]

Jay Foutch, a forklift operator for Tropicana Inc., has a 16-year-old son he would like to put through college. But with the passing of a union contract Wednesday night, he [...]

After three months of wrangling, Tropicana Dole Beverages and its chief union have arrived at a tentative three-year contract agreement. Members of the Teamsters Citrus and Allied Workers Union Local [...]

Charles Koch remembers well his last strategy session at the old Wooden Shoe Brewery in Cincinnati. The company was struggling as America's taste in beer changed toward light lagers and [...]

Will the new year finally bring resolution to a labor contract dispute that has festered for two months at Tropicana Dole Beverages? Will the new year finally bring resolution to [...]

A steady drizzle fell on the ribbon-cutting ceremony that officially opened Sysco Food Services' new 200,000 - square-foot warehouse in Palmetto, but Wednesday's weather did not rain on Sysco's parade. [...]

Byline: Patricia Horn Nov. 18--Some Barnes Foundation neighbors say they believe the fight to keep the fabled gallery in Merion isn't over. The neighbors, along with the Merion Civic Association […]

Byline: Patricia Horn Oct. 26--Cynthia Cooper knows the price for blowing the whistle on corporate fraud: grief, depression, legal fees, loss of work colleagues, and dealing with intrusive questions from […]

Byline: Patricia Horn Oct. 2--A new gallery in Philadelphia. A renovated theater in Phoenixville. A building full of artists' studios in Norristown. What do they all add up to? No […]

Byline: Patricia Horn Sep. 29--Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program, which has helped young artists create 2,500 murals throughout the city since 1984, has received $550,000 in grants to renovate the building […]

Byline: Patricia Horn Aug. 11--The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is facing a predicament. Or is that the University Museum? Or the University of Pennsylvania Museum? Or […]

Byline: Patricia Horn Jun. 30--Lawyer Sheldon M. Bonovitz and former Peco Energy Co. executive Gwendolyn Stewart King have joined the board of the Barnes Foundation. The Barnes now has 12 […]

Byline: Patricia Horn Jun. 22--If they had perfect timing, customers of Joseph Pacheco's Family Fuel business were able to lock in a price of $1.09 a gallon for last winter's […]

Byline: Patricia Horn PHILADELPHIA _ Barnes Foundation art student Jay Raymond has gone back to court to fight the decision allowing the Barnes to move its multibillion-dollar collection from Lower […]

Byline: Patricia Horn PHILADELPHIA _ In the hotly contested legal battle over the fate of the Barnes Foundation's art collection, one side has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, and […]