LAKELAND - A 14-year-old will be tried as an adult in the Dec. 5 stabbing death of a 13-year-old Southwest Middle School student, police said. ...more

December 20, 2007

An 11-year-old boy was arrested after he brought a loaded semiautomatic handgun to Gulf Beaches Elementary School on Monday, a Pinellas County School District representative said Tuesday. ...more

December 19, 2007

ST. PETE BEACH - An 11-year-old boy was arrested after he brought a loaded semi-automatic handgun to Gulf Beaches Elementary School on Monday, a school district representative said today. ...more

December 18, 2007

The youngest of my three children will graduate from college in two days. It is the fulfillment of a dream for him, and a step toward what I know will be a bright future. I'm happy, and proud, and … sad. Yes, sad, because this is a huge sea change in my life. ...more

December 16, 2007

A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate led to one of the largest civil rights protests in years pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor battery charge that could see him released from a detention center in about eight months. ...more

December 4, 2007

There are too many days off in our public schools. ...more

November 28, 2007

Regarding "Scientists Re-Create Stem Cells" (front page, Nov. 21): The news of stem cells being created from adult skin cells is breathtaking. If this turns out to be the real deal, no news event in the past 2000 years (save one; I'm a Christian after all) can compare. I hope for the day when so many ailments can be effectively cured - not "treated" but truly cured. ...more

November 25, 2007

A 56-year-old Ocala man was arrested today and charged with soliciting sex over the Internet with an adult and her two children under 16, Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

November 20, 2007

MADEIRA BEACH - Skeletal remains found underneath a business on Saturday belong to 53-year-old Willliam Joseph Oberle, Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said today. ...more

November 20, 2007