A Lakewood High School teacher has agreed to a seven-day suspension after it was discovered he had downloaded pornography on his school-issued laptop computer, according to Pinellas County School Board documents. ...more

February 21, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- A Lakewood High School teacher has agreed to a seven-day suspension after it was discovered he had downloaded pornography on his school-issued laptop computer, according to Pinellas County School Board documents. ...more

February 21, 2008

The wife of the man who opened fire at a city council meeting in Kirkwood, Mo., is principal of a St. Petersburg middle school, local officials confirmed. ...more

February 9, 2008

Local officials are concerned over the impact Curtis Fundamental School will have on traffic in the Dunedin neighborhood surrounding the school's soon-to-be campus on Milwaukee Avenue. Rather than just worrying, however, city staffers are taking steps to prevent gridlock from forming along the two-lane avenue at the beginning and end of each school day. ...more

February 2, 2008

CLEARWATER - Voters in five of Pinellas County's 24 cities will be deciding municipal leadership races and an array of ballot questions Tuesday while county Republicans and Democrats cast ballots in the presidential preference primary. ...more

January 23, 2008

Let's get ready to rumble. Candidates for City Commission plan to discuss their platforms and debate issues on Tuesday night during a special city- and Chamber of Commerce-sponsored forum at City Hall. ...more

January 12, 2008

The other day the Pinellas County School Board agreed to a student assignment plan that will steer students to schools closer to home beginning with the 2008-09 school year. As a result, the county joins hundreds of other school districts that have been freed from desegregation court orders, most of which seemed to emphasize the co-mingling of black and white students more than the quality of the education they were receiving. ...more

December 26, 2007

Pinellas County's two-year effort to change the way students are assigned to schools finally was approved Tuesday night after months of public hearings and last-minute delays that threatened to derail the effort for a year. ...more

December 19, 2007

An 11-year-old boy was arrested after he brought a loaded semiautomatic handgun to Gulf Beaches Elementary School on Monday, a Pinellas County School District representative said Tuesday. ...more

December 19, 2007

The Pinellas County School Board on Tuesday delayed final action on a controversial plan that would steer Pinellas County students to schools in their own neighborhoods. ...more

December 12, 2007