University of South Florida researchers have developed a technology using cell phones to enable people with brain injuries and other cognitive disabilities to use public transportation. ...more

January 5, 2009

This is one bird that officials at Penn State University don't want to see at Thanksgiving. ...more

November 27, 2008

A man accused of trying to drag a teenage girl from a bus stop into his car has been arrested, police reported. ...more

November 7, 2008

Police plan to have extra units patrolling near North 19th Street and East Wilder Avenue because a man robbed a 15-year-old girl at gunpoint at a school bus stop there this morning. ...more

October 31, 2008

The Hillsborough County School District continues to iron out wrinkles in the bus system that plagued the district at the beginning of this school year. ...more

October 27, 2008

A man suspected of attempting to rob a Brooksville bank earlier this year accepted a five-year prison sentence on Thursday. ...more

October 24, 2008

A 19-year-old man accused of threatening his 15-year-old girlfriend Wednesday morning has turned himself in to Tampa police, authorities say. Frederick Alex Jackson, of 5038 Temple Heights Road, Tampa, has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and taken to Orient Road Jail. ...more

October 22, 2008

Hillsborough High School is under a modified lockdown this morning after a 15-year-old student was threatened by her 19-year-old boyfriend, police and school officials said. ...more

October 22, 2008

Hillsborough County is getting two new principals. On Monday, the school board approved the appointments of Gloria Waite as principal of Mabry Elementary and Lynn Roberts as principal at USF/Patel Partnership Elementary. ...more

October 10, 2008

Hillsborough Schools Superintendent MaryEllen Elia will go to Alafia Elementary School to check out complaints after several parents called for the removal of the principal. ...more

October 8, 2008