SEBRING — What started as a small, goodwill project at one Highlands County school has grown to a big countywide thank you Christmas gesture for U.S. soldiers stationed overseas. ...more

November 21, 2007

When asked Friday by an assistant principal, a sixth-grade Azalea Middle School student denied being told by a classmate that he would bring a gun and kill her, according to a St. Petersburg police report. ...more

November 14, 2007

When asked Friday by an assistant principal, a sixth-grade Azalea Middle School student denied being told by a classmate that he would bring a gun and kill her, according to a St. Petersburg Police Department report. At a news conference Monday, the 11-year-old girl, Hannah, told reporters she was afraid to go to back to school after a boy pulled off her hijab, an Islamic head scarf, and the next day threatened kill her. ...more

November 13, 2007

Yes, it was their moms' idea. But make no mistake, this is a BOYS' book club. The six members - all fourth-graders from suburban Maryland - want to bury their noses in books and then talk about them, all right, but they want to do it while learning to sword-fight. ...more

November 8, 2007

At some point tonight, a student in the Brandon High bleachers will notice the Plant City head football coach, the one with the goatee and the headset, and ask his or her classmate this question: ...more

November 1, 2007

Black America has been on the march quite a bit lately. ...more

October 26, 2007

A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate drew thousands to Louisiana for a civil rights demonstration is back in jail, but a prosecutor said Friday the sentence has nothing to do with the racially charged case. ...more

October 13, 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

PLANT CITY - Hillsborough County State Attorney Mark Ober's message wasn't always upbeat as featured speaker at today's Greater Plant City Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting. Ober talked of cases he'd handled over the years, including those of juveniles with no respect for the law, such as a 14-year-old who killed a classmate and a 12-year-old who raped a mother in front of her children. ...more

October 10, 2007

A former pizzeria manager accused of kidnapping two Missouri boys, one of whom was missing for more than four years, will plead guilty next week to kidnapping, attempted murder and sexual assault, a prosecutor said Friday. ...more

October 6, 2007