The Sebring High School Choral Department will present its winter concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the First Baptist Church of Sebring. ...more

December 14, 2009

It was a breakfast of scholastic champions. Fred Wild Elementary School hosted a breakfast Monday for its students who earned top level scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. Parents were also invited to the breakfast. ...more

September 30, 2008

Callen Votzke, a junior at Hillsborough High School, was honored recently by the Hillsborough County School Board for achieving a perfect score of 1,600 on the SAT. ...more

June 21, 2008

Call him imaginative. Call him determined. Call him stubborn. Just don't call him blind. ...more

June 14, 2008

TAMPA PALMS - Call him imaginative. Call him determined. Call him stubborn. Just don't call him blind. Liberty Middle School eighth-grader Peyton Short can barely make out images because of a genetic condition that has left him visually impaired. But it hasn't kept Peyton from his first loves of reading and writing. His passion for the written word was evident with his recent score on the writing portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. He earned a perfect score, one of 22 students in his school to earn the top mark. ...more

June 10, 2008

After four consecutive male winners on "Dancing With the Stars," it was finally ladies' night. ...more

May 21, 2008

In the 131-year history of major league baseball, there have been just 17 perfect games. The last time it happened was in 2004 when southpaw Randy Johnson threw a 2-0 perfect game against the Atlanta Braves. ...more

December 20, 2007

Race-car driver Helio Castroneves upset Spice Girl Melanie Brown to capture the fifth "Dancing With the Stars" mirrorball trophy on Tuesday night. ...more

November 28, 2007

Perfection is an unattainable objective. It is in football, anyway. That's part of what sets football apart from so many other sports. ...more

November 3, 2007

SEBRING — Kids ruled the Heartland Idol stage on Thursday night. About 350 fans, the largest audience yet this year, saw two new 2007 Idol champions crowned. Stacy Jingst, 17, took the teen idol title with a rousing rendition of "God Bless the USA" and 12-year-old Christopher Hawthorne picked up the top Junior Idol spot after singing the Stevie Wonder tune, "Superstition." Judge Rooter Rush told lead-off teen singer Lindsey Varis, 16, that none of the following four finalists could top her perfect score and said he happily anticipated the upcoming attempts. Judges gushed often about quality of entertainment as 10 finalists performed for the huge crowd. ...more

September 29, 2007