Prosecutors have dropped two of the four rape charges against a former Walker Middle School student accused along with three schoolmates of using a broomstick and hockey stick to sodomize a student in a locker room. ...more

December 1, 2009

Local teen starts conservative group to voice political concerns. ...more

October 22, 2009

When Timothy Wise Jr., 10, opened the door to his family's apartment, there stood his favorite football player: Tampa Bay Buccaneer Warrick Dunn. ...more

November 5, 2008

Alex Guerra discovered a surprising fact of student life this month at what has been one of the region's fastest-growing colleges. ...more

September 23, 2008

The University of Tampa has a student housing deficit, a good-news, bad-news situation it says it can handle. ...more

September 22, 2008

Starting middle school is a scary time, whether you know all your classmates from elementary school or are brand new. You're faced with changing classes, more intense academics and unfamiliar buildings. ...more

August 20, 2008

Justine Knox is an old-timer at working for good causes. The Dunedin High School student has collected money from schoolmates for the American Heart Association and animal rights. Her latest project, raising money for an organization that helps Pinellas County foster children, hit close to home because Justine has friends who are foster children. ...more

May 31, 2008

It was a day for just being a kid. Last week, more than 100 students from Hernando County's STAR alternative education center piled onto school buses and arrived for a particularly special field trip: A day at Buccaneer Bay water park at Weeki Wachee Springs. ...more

May 21, 2008

Local kids get day at Buccaneer Bay for good behavior. ...more

May 20, 2008

Looking for a less expensive alternative with more immediate results, Benito Middle School journalists have gone digital. ...more

February 25, 2008