SARASOTA COUNTY — A middle schooler brought a gun to campus and showed it to a friend on Thursday, authorities say. ...more

October 9, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY - Deputies searching for a suspect in a home invasion near Ashton Elementary School triggered a lockdown at three public school campuses on Tuesday, minutes before school was scheduled to let out. ...more

September 17, 2008

VENICE - The parents of students in a Venice Elementary School special-needs class wanted things to get back to normal after police arrested their children's teacher on child abuse charges in February. ...more

May 18, 2008

For the time being, schoolchildren in Manatee and Charlotte counties will have to get by on spaghetti without meatballs, vegetarian chili and nachos without taco meat. Both districts joined hundreds of others across the country that pulled beef from school menus this week as federal regulators investigate the possible use of sick and injured cattle by a California meat supplier. ...more

February 6, 2008

Gwendolyn Tose'-Rigell, the principal of the school where President Bush was when he learned of the Sept. 11 attacks, has died, school officials said Thursday. She was 56. ...more

December 28, 2007