Breathe Easier: Side Effect Risk Low The Food and Drug Administration's recent announcement that it is reviewing the safety of the widely used allergy drug Singulair received plenty of media attention. ...more

June 14, 2008

It's mid-May, the 2007-2008 school year is nearing an end, and the final two active springtime sports – baseball and softball – are in the midst of crowning their new state champs. One would think that with only two prep sports still actually competing, all local media attention would be focused on the diamonds. Other than the random blurbs of off-season coaching changes or new college commitments, there's really no cause to take heed in much else. ...more

May 10, 2008

The changing of the guard was more like a return to the past. For the 33 SPCA members who attended Wednesday night's public meeting, that was perfectly fine. ...more

May 2, 2008

Even Hollywood couldn't have written a more ideal script for the Internal Revenue Service than actor Wesley Snipes' tax-fraud trial. ...more

January 29, 2008

TEMPLE TERRACE - They made headlines five years ago and were back in the news this year when their reward money couldn't be found. Jarvarious Jones and Oscar Carter did a good deed in 2002 and were finally old enough to collect the reward money this year. The then-13-year-olds found $4,000 in cash near their Greco Middle bus stop and turned the money over to authorities. ...more

January 2, 2008

It's about to happen again. Three states - Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina - that combined don't have as many electoral votes as Florida will have disproportionate influence in determining the next leader of the free world. ...more

December 23, 2007

British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons plans to get back to the classroom once she finishes celebrating her release from a Sudanese jail. ...more

December 5, 2007

How about those kids today? All they care about is music, having friends, dating and irritating us older folks. Right? Well, no, actually. And if you need proof of that, look no further than Sebring High School's Freshman Foundation. They blow those stereotypes out of the water. Spearheaded by a group of students in the Freshman Foundation, the school has taken on the task of raising $10,000 to help Ugandan children caught in a savage war that gets little media attention. They will partner with the Schools for Schools program and try to bring about change for young people thousands of miles away. After watching videos of Ugandan children caught in a conflict between government forces and a rebel group called Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Sebring students decided to do something about it. The LRA kidnaps children to make them soldiers and sex slaves. It has totally disrupted any semblance of normal life for young people there. But most of us have never heard of such a problem because it's lost in coverage of Iraq and Darfur. ...more

November 9, 2007

TAMPA A high school teacher whom police say had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old boy has been hospitalized because of emotional distress, her attorney said today. ...more

October 29, 2007

A 17-year-old girl in upstate New York is forced into sex by a male teacher. Instead of sympathy, the student gets harassed for causing trouble for a popular teacher, threatened and pushed around by other girls. Just six weeks before graduation, she quits school. ...more

October 26, 2007