Southeast

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Bank of New York Mellon on Friday filed a complaint for declaratory judgment alleging that Jefferson County, Ala., has misused sewer system revenues that otherwise would go to pay debt service.

Florida's auditor general found increasing financial stress among cities, counties and special districts after reviewing hundreds of audits and financial statements filed in fiscal 2010.

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP recently promoted Rebecca Joyner to partner in its Raleigh, N.C., office.

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is auditing $31.59 million of Series 2004A first mortgage revenue bonds that were issued by the St. Johns County Industrial Development Authority in August 2004 to help Presbyterian Retirement Communities Inc. and its affiliates finance improvements to eight retirement centers in Florida.

BRADENTON, Fla. — Syncora Guarantee Inc. on Thursday joined a dozen creditors seeking to appeal various rulings by the federal judge in Alabama overseeing Jefferson County's bankruptcy case.

For a second year, Georgia is poised to eclipse Florida in authorizing new-money bonds in their state budgets.

North Carolina’s first female governor will not seek a second term.

Adding toll lanes to the proposals for upgrading portions of U.S. 90 to Interstate standards in the Lafayette area could provide up to half of the financing, according to a new traffic study.

Kentucky has begun the search for contractors interested in designing and building its portion of the Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project.

Voters in the small town of Fort Myers Beach on Florida’s southwest coast overwhelmingly rejected bonds for a new city hall Tuesday, with 87% voting against the sale of $7 million of 30-year general obligation bonds secured by property taxes.