TAMPA - A federal judge today set a March 10 trial date for a former University of South Florida engineering student charged in connection with a case against two other former students accused of transporting explosives. ...more

February 8, 2008

Five young men are dead after a car they were riding in crashed after traveling off an airport runway at the exclusive fly-in community of Jumbolair Aviation Estates early Saturday, the Florida Highway Patrol said. ...more

January 27, 2008

A former University of South Florida student from Morocco pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a federal weapons charge levied after FBI agents found a picture of him posing with a gun. ...more

January 23, 2008

When I was a youngster, there was a saying that we loved to recite, and it went something like this: "Never judge a book by its cover because you may miss out on some good reading." That is the way I feel about the history of black schools in Pasco County, because you could easily be misled into thinking they were not up to par. Compared to instruction today, I would have to beg your pardon. ...more

December 9, 2007

"Lions for Lambs" seems to ask every question imaginable about the war on terrorism while offering no answers. ...more

November 8, 2007

Monica Sleeter learned to speak English at age 9 in the suburbs of New Orleans. Her family emigrated from Colombia, and she was nervous in her new country. ...more

November 1, 2007

State Rep. Bill Galvano will ask state environmental regulators to begin new soil testing at Bayshore High School to determine what, if any, toxins may be making scores of alumni sick. ...more

October 27, 2007

For years, Peter Meinke had been stopping in to shop at Haslam's Book Store. One day, a high-powered New York editor overheard the owners' son, who clerks at the store, say Peter Meinke was due in. ...more

October 12, 2007

Dozens of colleges and universities have begun offering career-counseling services not just to recent graduates but to thousands of alumni, including some former students who completed their degrees a decade ago or longer. ...more

October 4, 2007