A Polk County elementary school principal was arrested Friday after investigators found him in possession of pictures that electronically superimposed faces of young girls onto images of bodies of childlike naked women, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. ...more

December 21, 2007

Back in 2000, the Pinellas County School Board and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund reached an agreement on a school-choice plan that signaled the end to a requirement that schools have a set ratio of black to white students. ...more

November 16, 2007

Pakistan eased its crackdown on opponents Saturday, releasing opposition leader Benazir Bhutto from house arrest and saying it will lift a state of emergency within a month. The government, however, blocked a meeting between a deposed Supreme Court justice and Bhutto, who pledged to lead a 185-mile protest march. ...more

November 11, 2007

at least temporarily - to put a stop to executions by lethal injection, the Florida Supreme Court ruled last week that this state's procedures are not cruel and unusual. ...more

November 6, 2007

As she looked at the Emancipation Proclamation, Catherine Jewell-Gill recalled her days of picking cotton in Arkansas as a child and later becoming a teacher and principal. ...more

September 24, 2007

Some of the city's most visible and significant projects are in limbo as Tampa officials try to decipher a state Supreme Court ruling that could have devastating effects on local government. ...more

September 19, 2007