TOWN 'N COUNTRY - A program that makes bad grades feel manageable and college attainable is expanding throughout the Hillsborough County school district, and educators hope it will give a boost to students who might get overlooked. ...more

June 7, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - A program that makes bad grades feel manageable and college attainable is expanding throughout the Hillsborough County school district, and educators hope it will give a boost to students who might get overlooked. ...more

June 7, 2008

Tony Perrone is known in the Hillsborough County school system as "an opener." ...more

June 7, 2008

SEBRING — Sebring High School sophomore Megan Foster had a surprise Monday for her favorite teacher from eighth grade – Sebring Middle School's Tom Libby. "Oh! Woo! that does look like him," Libby said, after his first glimpse of a painting of Ben Franklin that Foster made for him. "I'm going to get emotional; I feel honored," he added. Over the years, Libby has let his history students know about his fascination with the bespectacled founding father. ...more

June 5, 2008

Growing up in a small rural town, Ross McGinnis was more apt to get in trouble than on the honor roll. So he enlisted in the Army, and in just under a year found his soul mate, a brotherhood, and even himself. ...more

June 1, 2008

Retrieving schoolbooks from a Volkswagen but then attempting to drive it, a teenage girl pinned a 5-year-old boy against a wall and crushed him to death, police said Wednesday night. ...more

May 29, 2008

A 5-year-old boy was killed when a car hit and pinned him against a wall at a St. Petersburg apartment complex, police said. ...more

May 29, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - This was an unconventional year for Kayli Keough. She was in her senior season, already signed over to Florida State in November and her busy side schedule of showcases and travel ball was over. ...more

May 28, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Pasco County students continue to perform better in reading and mathematics than most of their peers across the nation, according to Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test results announced Thursday. ...more

May 28, 2008

Why should a "high school graduate," whose academic quality is not equal to a low average eighth-grader, insist on going to academic college? ...more

May 22, 2008