Students in one southwest Ohio school district will be in class while their peers get a day off for Memorial Day. ...more

May 23, 2009

The University of South Florida's football program has the nation's worst Academic Progress Report (APR) among BCS conference schools. ...more

May 7, 2009

Once again the crusading St. Pete Pravda strikes out boldly, with a front page story (March 29) about how "young patients" are being denied mind-numbing drugs (paid for by you and me), which places a terrible burden on "loving" mothers, "caring" teachers, and society in general. Baloney! ...more

April 1, 2009

A teacher inspired Paul Wharton to pursue his dream of becoming an educator. ...more

April 1, 2009

The impact of Wharton's hands-on mentoring style still can be seen in many of today's teachers and administrators. ...more

March 31, 2009

A teenager said she had sex with a Tarpon Springs police officer she worked with while she was a student at Tarpon Springs High School, but she was 18 at the time and had already graduated, according to a criminal case file released this morning by the police department. ...more

February 18, 2009

The 1998 graduating class at Christ the King Catholic School held its 10-year reunion Dec. 26. Among the class of 37 former students, 16 came to the gathering (the third reunion in the last 10 years) organized by the graduates at CDBs Southside Italian Restaurant & Bar. With the help of Facebook and MySpace, they have kept in touch with each other. At the reunion, the friends watched their class video, originally shown at graduation, which featured photographs of each student from infancy through eighth grade, along with group photos from throughout the years. ...more

January 7, 2009

Like her tiny students, Hillary Koontz, 22, started school three months ago for the first time. And, like them, the new teacher had some adjustments to make. ...more

November 12, 2008

With raindrops not dampening her enthusiasm, 5-year-old Kaitlin Mixon of Valrico bounded through the puddled parking lot of a theater complex determined to catch the opening of "High School Musical 3: Senior Year." ...more

October 25, 2008

I was blessed as a young man when I decided to join the Marine Corps. ...more

October 18, 2008