Shelly Sigo

Two ex-JPMorgan bankers seek to revise their statements in an SEC case about the sale of Jefferson County, Ala.’s sewer debt, now that a key player has been deposed.

Port St. Lucie, Fla., plans to issue new, long-term debt and use the proceeds to take out bonds issued for the bankrupt Digital Domain special effects studio project.

Fitch downgraded Florida's Pensacola International Airport bonds to BBB-minus from BBB primarily due to "financial underperformance" and airline consolidation risk.

S&P lowered its underlying rating to A from A-plus on West Virginia University's bonds citing deteriorating financial ratios because of bond issuances in recent years.

Eleven months after the close of fiscal 2013, Jefferson County, Ala.'s audit sheds little light on the county's financial condition since emerging from bankruptcy.

Lake Worth, Fla., voters refused to OK $63.5 million in GO bonds on the Aug. 26 ballot, but other bond referendums are set for November.

Former Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority board member Scott Batterson was found guilty of bribery in a case that highlighted authority business, including bond discussions, being done in a backroom fashion despite state “sunshine” laws.

Opponents of bond financing for the Atlanta Braves new $672 million baseball stadium have filed notices of three appeals by the court's deadline.

The consortium building the $2.3 billion Interstate 4 project in central Florida says bank and federal loans are cheaper than bonds for the state's largest public-private partnership project.

Atlanta-based IFS Securities hired former New York Gov. David Paterson as chief strategist of U.S. affairs and chairman of the firm's advisory board.

The Louisiana Transportation Funding Task Force holds its first meeting Sept. 10 to begin studying new ways of funding road and bridge projects.

Miami-Dade County commissioners will consider placing a $540 million bond issue on the November ballot to build a new courthouse.

The terms of a loan turned the outlook on Florida Gulf Coast University's debt to negative, and could result in a rating downgrade of two notches, Standard & Poor's said.

A long-awaited report that recommends West Virginia issue $1.5 billion in bonds to fund transportation projects will be released in September.

Florida's government pensions generally don't drive negative credit pressure partly because of the flexibility to change benefits prospectively, Moody's said.

North Carolina's Fayetteville Public Works Commission plans to price $110 million in revenue bonds in a rare competitive deal.

Georgia privately placed $26 million in bonds to finance the tolling system for a start-up express lane project south of Atlanta.

S&P cut its rating to CC from B on the Charter School of Boynton Beach, Fla.'s bonds saying there is a "virtual certainty of default."

A new Florida coalition pledges to work on municipal pension reform because it says cities face nearly $11 billion in debt from the obligations.

Moody's downgraded bonds sold by the Douglasville-Douglas County Water and Sewer Authority, Ga., to Aa3 from Aa2 due to weak reserves and declining consumption.