The students at Central Baptist School are growing like weeds. School officials are clamoring to keep up. ...more

July 8, 2009

The University of South Florida will seek approval Thursday from the state Board of Governors to develop a pharmacy degree program. Given the state's financial woes - USF has already had to cut its budget by about 15 percent in the last year - this may seem a bad time for the university to be adding programs. ...more

January 28, 2009

Retired Gen. Tommy Franks will launch a lecture series next week for students and corporate sponsors at a charter school backed by Tampa Bay Buccaneer Derrick Brooks. ...more

November 29, 2008

Next week, retired Gen. Tommy Franks will launch a lecture series for students and the public at a charter school backed by Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Derrick Brooks. Franks, former head of U.S. Central Command in Tampa and the man who led the American invasions of Afghanistan, will speak about 10 a.m. Dec. 3 at Brooks-DeBartolo Collegiate High School, 11602 N. 15th St., Tampa. ...more

November 26, 2008

Linda Walsh and Maverick stand in a field at Camp Cloverleaf. Gerard Thanhoffer and a dozen other dog owners crowd around on both sides. Close. Closer. The German shepherd doesn't spook. He watches carefully, he understands it was a test, and therefore he didn't mind. ...more

October 13, 2008

Last week, a group of USF students, faculty and guests gathered outside the new Phyllis P. Marshall Student Center to honor the old building which is about to be razed. The speakers included school luminaries including President Judy Genshaft, a representative of the Phyllis Marshall family, (that would be me, as Phyllis was my first cousin once-removed, which is a West Virginia thing) and people who have been a part of the center, past and present. ...more

September 30, 2008

Since 1960, hundreds of thousands of University of South Florida students filed into and out of the building known since 1994 as the Marshall Student Center. ...more

September 25, 2008

The University of South Florida bids adieu to the old Marshall Center. ...more

September 24, 2008

Beck, headquartered in Dallas with offices in Tampa, is the contractor for the schools that will be completed Aug. 1 near Interstate 4 and McIntosh Road ...more

September 24, 2008

Meet George W. Bush, time traveler. He's in Poland in 1939 as Nazi tanks advance on Warsaw, then flying with his Navy-pilot father to battle imperial Japan. He's alongside Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, William McKinley on his deathbed and Franklin D. Roosevelt on D-Day. He lingers with Harry S. Truman, another U.S. president deeply unpopular in his time. ...more

June 13, 2008