The family of a middle school student plans to sue the Hillsborough County school district, saying the boy suffered personal and psychological injuries from having a sexual relationship with his teacher, Stephanie Ragusa. ...more

November 17, 2009

The family of a middle school student plans to sue the Hillsborough County school board, saying the boy suffered personal and psychological injuries from having a sexual relationship with his teacher, Stephanie Ragusa. ...more

November 16, 2009

The public will begin picking up the defense tab for Stephanie Ragusa, a former Hillsborough County middle school teacher accused of having sex with two students. Circuit Judge Wayne S. Timmerman granted a request today by Ragusa's attorney, Robert Herce, to have his client declared indigent. Prosecutors did not object. ...more

September 30, 2009

An August trial date was scheduled today for Stephanie Ragusa, a former Hillsborough County middle school teacher accused of having sex with two students. Hillsborough Circuit Court Judge Wayne S. Timmerman set Aug. 10 for Ragusa at the request of prosecutors and Ragusa's attorney Robert Herce. ...more

March 19, 2009

Stephanie Ragusa believes she is being harassed by the staff at the Hillsborough County jail, where she is being held without bond on charges of molesting two teenagers at the school where she taught. ...more

March 4, 2009

In Stephanie Ragusa's spring job evaluation, she received marks indicating she was unsatisfactory or needed improvement in every category but one. ...more

June 25, 2008

Woman accused of having sex with students dressed well, review said. ...more

June 24, 2008

Before she became a national spectacle, ridiculed and chastised for smiling eerily after her third arrest involving sex with a student, middle school math teacher Stephanie Ragusa had a history of breaking rules. ...more

May 11, 2008