TAMPA - Police say there was no evil intent when a man approached a group of schoolchildren at a Tampa bus stop this morning. ...more

November 5, 2007

LAKELAND - It looked ugly, but no one was hurt when a school bus full of elementary school students collided with a small car in north Lakeland. ...more

October 30, 2007

GULFPORT - Geoff Kingberg, an Orthodox Jew who dons a yarmulke, was at the end of his day substitute teaching Wednesday when he picked up a student assignment on which someone had scrawled: "Jews will die soon." ...more

October 25, 2007

Senate Democrats on Tuesday reversed President Bush's cuts to education, health research and grants to local entities as they gird for Bush's first-ever veto of a regular appropriations bill. ...more

October 24, 2007

Karen Pate figures science teachers seldom get the recognition they deserve. ...more

October 12, 2007

To many parents, it seemed nonsensical. A plan to make school bus service more efficient meant their children would have to cross Bell Shoals Road, one of the busiest north-south arteries in Brandon, just as commuters were rushing to work from their houses, condos and town homes in this booming bedroom community. ...more

September 5, 2007

Rodney Miner took to time traveling first. The 66-year-old Miner's interest in the 1800s developed about 35 years ago when the avid hunter and trapper was asked to do a demonstration on tanning animal hides at a festival. ...more

September 4, 2007