Spoto High School baseball coach Larry Benton must meet with professional standards staff after his arrest on a misdemeanor charge of soliciting someone to commit prostitution. ...more

July 1, 2009

Police shot and killed a man while investigating a domestic violence call Monday night. ...more

March 3, 2009

Two veteran Pasco County deputies were fired Monday after an internal affairs investigation concluded they were slacking on the job, according to sheriff's office officials. ...more

January 28, 2009

Months before she was accused of having sex with two boys, teacher Stephanie Ragusa complained to school officials about a confrontation with her principal centering on Ragusa's relations with male students. ...more

August 8, 2008

Former Hillsborough County middle school teacher Stephanie Ragusa sent a text message to the boy to say she was freaking out because the Hillsborough County School District's office of professional standards kept calling her. ...more

August 8, 2008

A physical-education teacher who just finished his first year with the Hillsborough County School District was arrested Sunday on a charge of felony cocaine possession. ...more

June 17, 2008

TAMPA - A physical-education teacher who just finished his first year of employment with the Hillsborough County School District was arrested Sunday, charged with felony cocaine possession. ...more

June 16, 2008

An internal watchdog office at the Justice Department is investigating whether Bush administration lawyers violated professional standards by issuing legal opinions authorizing the CIA to use waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques, officials said Friday. ...more

February 23, 2008

A local teacher's family says she is getting fired from her job because of a back injury. ...more

February 16, 2008

Administrators think the effectiveness of a Seminole High School teacher "has been diminished" after an investigation revealed he picked up a 17-year-old boy at a bar and took him to his apartment for sex, Pinellas County school documents show. Now, Superintendent Clayton Wilcox wants Gerald DiPanfilo fired. ...more

February 8, 2008