A suspended Hernando High School coach has resigned amid controversy and obtained an attorney, district officials confirmed Thursday. ...more

May 9, 2008

SEBRING — A 16-year-old student at the Academy at Youth Care Lane was charged Thursday with a felony count of crimes against a person by threat, as well as disturbing the peace, for allegedly saying he was going to shoot his drill instructors with a gun. ...more

January 19, 2008

Meacham Alternative School, a monument to inner city education, began tumbling into rubble Friday, joining the remains of the neighborhood that had sent many of its young people there. ...more

December 1, 2007

TAMPA - With the rubble of Central Park Village serving as a backdrop and the fog-shrouded skyline of downtown Tampa peering over the oak trees, an already gutted Meacham Alternative School started to fall this morning. ...more

November 30, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - A 20-year-old student at the Life Skills Center of Pinellas County was arrested Thursday on charges that he brought a loaded gun onto the alternative- school campus. ...more

November 9, 2007

A school employee is under arrest, accused of sending nude pictures of himself to a 15-year-old student at YMCA Triad Alternative School in Sarasota. Delco Ray Rowley of 3331 Plantation Drive was hired in August as a behavioral specialist. ...more

October 26, 2007

Despite 26 security cameras, officials couldn't say Thursday how an armed, suspended 14-year-old student was able to get into his downtown school a day earlier and shoot two students and two teachers before killing himself. ...more

October 12, 2007