Nine girls from a South Florida middle school are charged with resisting arrest after they allegedly refused to talk to police about a fight on a school bus. ...more

December 17, 2008

The Highlands County Habitat for Humanity affiliate has filled a brand new position, hiring John Hawthorne as chief operating officer to oversee its finances, home construction and ReStore operations. ...more

December 12, 2008

A grey Tacoma pickup hit a school bus at North Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue at LaSalle Street this afternoon and left the scene, Clearwater police said. ...more

December 9, 2008

TAMPA About 40 people, many retirees, rode a school bus downtown today to oppose a professional soccer stadium planned for a site near their homes in Town 'N Country. They could have skipped the trip and saved the $400 they paid to rent the bus. ...more

December 9, 2008

Police plan to have extra units patrolling near North 19th Street and East Wilder Avenue because a man robbed a 15-year-old girl at gunpoint at a school bus stop there this morning. ...more

October 31, 2008

The members of the current Hernando County School Board may not be sure how to handle a longtime program that teaches kindergarteners how to swim, but school board candidate Gene Magrini is. ...more

October 8, 2008

The YMCA program that helps local kindergarteners learn to swim may be on the line at local schools. ...more

October 6, 2008

The Polk County Sheriff's Office is looking for vandals who did $3,000 damage to a school bus in Mulberry. ...more

September 30, 2008

A woman was cited for careless driving Wednesday after she clipped the back of a taxi and rear-ended a school bus, police said. ...more

September 25, 2008

A tractor-trailer driver was on his cell phone when he slammed into a school bus in north Florida, police said Wednesday. A 13-year-old girl died, but officials are crediting heroic passers-by who pulled students off the burning bus with preventing an even bigger tragedy. ...more

September 25, 2008