Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was driven from office Thursday in a deal with prosecutors that will send him to jail and put an end to the sex scandal that embarrassed this chronically struggling city and preoccupied its government for months. ...more

September 5, 2008

Try Universal Curriculum I read with interest Dan Lips' column "What's Missing From Schools" (Other Views, Aug. 16): ...more

August 23, 2008

NORTH PORT - A North Port High School military instructor admitted receiving nude photographs and lurid text messages from a teenage girl, according to newly released police documents. ...more

August 14, 2008

Rocco Baldelli's family and friends from Rhode Island to St. Petersburg got text messages bearing the good news in the wee hours of Sunday morning. ...more

August 11, 2008

Former Hillsborough County middle school teacher Stephanie Ragusa sent a text message to the boy to say she was freaking out because the Hillsborough County School District's office of professional standards kept calling her. ...more

August 8, 2008

NORTH PORT - North Port High School ROTC teacher Ronald Barche, 47, was arrested this morning for allegedly trying to seduce a 16-year-old girl via cell phone text messages. ...more

August 7, 2008

Text messages between former Hillsborough County teacher Stephanie Ragusa and one of the students she is accused of having sex with were released today by the State Attorney's Office. She told the boy she loved him, and they discussed dating and her giving him money, according to the messages, which were released in hundreds of pages of discovery documents. Also released was Ragusa's last will and testament, in which she addressed a student. ...more

August 7, 2008

A 93-year-old with a "determined" mood is looking for friends on My- Space in hopes of solving crimes. ...more

July 21, 2008

TAMPA - A 93-year-old with a "determined" mood is looking for friends on MySpace in hopes of solving crimes. ...more

July 17, 2008

European regulators are nearing a decision on whether to impose price caps on text messaging and mobile Internet use while traveling. ...more

July 12, 2008