The recently started chess club at Wimauma Elementary has enjoyed almost immediate success. In fact, school Principal Roy Moral has had to limit membership to 40 students. ...more

January 26, 2008

Hernando County's newest K-8 school principal is in town, and he's knocking the socks off of just about everybody. ...more

January 13, 2008

The Pasco Sheriff's Office is investigating text messages received this morning that warned of a possible shooting at Hudson High School that never materialized. ...more

January 8, 2008

A Tampa Bay area legal expert says charges of child pornography may not stick to a Lakeland school principal. ...more

December 25, 2007

When Sister Kathleen Treanor's soul ascends to heaven, her brain will go to a less ethereal realm: a medical lab in Kentucky. ...more

December 22, 2007

He looks like an eighth-grade version of Dick Butkus. With his crew-cut hair, his muscular frame and his charismatic grin, Kyle Goluba fits the mold of a kid who loves to play football. ...more

November 25, 2007

LAKE PLACID — Americans play more sports and are polite and friendly, or so believe 12 Russian snowbirds visiting Highlands County. A dozen Russian 10th-graders from St. Petersburg are returning the favor after a group of Lake Placid students visited Russia 10 weeks ago. Student Dima Bofodin likes the "nearly perfect" Florida climate, compared with nine colder months a year at home. "The local people play more sports, (especially) with wakeboards and jet skis," Bofodin observed. "And the school's compete against other schools in sports." He also gave a thumbs up to American manners. ...more

October 30, 2007

Two Middleton High School students, one described as having a sexual relationship with a teacher and the other suspended after spreading rumors about it, have filed letters of intention to sue the Hillsborough County School District. ...more

October 27, 2007

TAMPA - The Middleton High School principal had heard talk of an affair between a 16-year-old boy and a now-suspended teacher but thought it was just a rumor, a school district spokesman said today. ...more

October 25, 2007