In a locked classroom at Orient Road Jail, school-age inmates discussed what qualities define a hero. ...more

October 25, 2009

The Hillsborough County School District's Youth Services program is the young offenders' last chance to save themselves from a life of crime, teachers and administrators said. ...more

October 23, 2009

NEW PORT RICHEY - Educators know the notion that reading, writing and arithmetic are all students need to succeed is as obsolete as a one-room schoolhouse. Skills are needed along with knowledge. The question is, however, which skills will give today's students the best edge in tomorrow's job market? Pasco District School officials hope get a bit of an education in that area. The district will hold a Workforce Strategic Planning Town Hall Meeting on Monday. ...more

May 31, 2008

Born off North Mobley Road on July 4, 1924, Mordecai Walker has seen his hometown go through its fair share of transformations. ...more

May 24, 2008

During a recent worship service at Mount Pleasant African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Rev. Delores Washington welcomed some old faces. ...more

February 24, 2008

They came from Georgia with just the clothes on their backs and a few dollars in their pockets, looking for work in the sawmills and a place to call home. ...more

January 19, 2008

This tiny community, dwarfed by the Withlacoochee State Forest that surrounds it, might have been run over by development by now, like many of Florida's rural outposts, except for a quirk of fate. ...more

December 26, 2007

A year ago this week, we were a nation mourning a horrific crime. On Oct. 2, 2006, a crazed gunman barricaded himself and 10 girls inside a one-room schoolhouse in the Amish hamlet of Nickel Mines, Pa. ...more

October 6, 2007

A year ago this week, we were a nation mourning a horrific crime. ...more

October 5, 2007

A year after 10 of their female classmates were shot, some boys who escaped unharmed from West Nickel Mines Amish School are tormented by guilt, according to the co-author of a new book about the massacre. ...more

September 23, 2007