ST. PETERSBURG - A 16-year-old girl attending Northeast High School was arrested Tuesday on charges she used a box cutter to slash two female students after the three got off a school bus, police say. ...more

January 9, 2008

The teen gunman who fatally shot eight people in a mall on Dec. 5 tried to kill himself by swallowing about 30 pills nearly two years earlier, according to court records released Wednesday. ...more

December 27, 2007

People are counting on Romona Sutton. And Sutton is counting on assistance to help her agency thrive. ...more

December 26, 2007

Betty Knowles is tired of lost possibilities and faded promise. As a social worker, Knowles often hears about children who start out bright but lose their way. Her son Tedric, or "Teddy," was like that, she said, gifted in math and foreign languages before ending up in a state prison. He died a few months after his release, in a drive-by shooting in Port Tampa that remains unsolved. ...more

December 13, 2007

Amy Gorman, author of "Aging Artfully: 12 Profiles of Visual and Performing Women Artists 85-105," will speak at the SouthShore Regional Library, 15816 Beth Shields Way, at 10:30 a.m. Thursday. ...more

November 29, 2007

Amy Gorman, author of "Aging Artfully: 12 Profiles of Visual and Performing Women Artists 85-105," will speak at the SouthShore Regional Library, 15816 Beth Shields Way, at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 6. She will show clips of filmmaker Greg Young's movie, "Still Kicking," based on her book. ...more

November 26, 2007

SEBRING — Florida ranked second in the nation with 51.1 percent of its public high schools showing excessive dropout rates, but no schools in Highlands or surrounding counties made the list of "Dropout Factories." The state's public high schools have some of the worst student retention rates in the country, with half qualifying as "Dropout Factories," four times the national average, according to a new analysis of U.S. Education Department data conducted by Johns Hopkins University. The term dropout factory, coined by Hopkins researcher Bob Balfanz, describes schools where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. ...more

November 3, 2007

Residents of Featherock adult mobile home community enjoy plenty of recreational activities geared to active seniors age 55 and older. There's much more than shuffleboard and bingo going on, though. ...more

November 3, 2007

For nearly 22 months, police have said Sandra Prince was last seen alive on Dec. 30, 2005. ...more

October 27, 2007

TEMPLE TERRACE - For nearly 22 months, police have said Sandra Prince was last seen alive on Dec. 30, 2005. On Friday, police backed away from that date, saying it's not clear. ...more

October 26, 2007