JACKSONVILLE – Third-ranked Florida State appeared in good position to make a run to Sunday's title game of the Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament following a victory over Wake Forest in the first round. ...more

May 23, 2008

Getting several hundred high school students to pay attention to someone speaking about brain power can be difficult. ...more

February 24, 2008

TAMPA – As soon as the last pirates stumble away from Bayshore Boulevard, workers and local residents get to work. ...more

January 27, 2008

Alan Jackson, Sugarland and Billy Ray Cyrus are among the musical acts slated to appear at the 2008 Florida Strawberry Festival. ...more

December 7, 2007

A section of stands at a soccer stadium in northeastern Brazil gave way Sunday as fans cheered at the end of a game, killing eight people, police said. ...more

November 26, 2007

Most of the University of Florida's most important recruiting targets for the class of 2006 arrived on campus Nov. 25, 2005, and ran into the biggest salesman they'd ever seen. Carl Johnson, a perpetually smiling, 6-foot-5, 350-pound mountain of a high school senior, had been committed to Florida since the previous summer, and he had a message for his fellow visitors. ...more

November 24, 2007

It took Ridgewood High all of three and a half minutes to return to 2006-07 form during their 64-18 drumming of visiting Mitchell High School. ...more

November 20, 2007

In addition to hitting the hardwood to prepare for the first season of varsity competition, members of the Spoto High School boys basketball team also took to the school's football field. ...more

November 7, 2007

At some point tonight, a student in the Brandon High bleachers will notice the Plant City head football coach, the one with the goatee and the headset, and ask his or her classmate this question: ...more

November 1, 2007

The record for the world's largest pumpkin was about 460 pounds until 1981, when Howard Dill, a grower in Nova Scotia, came up with one that was close to 500 pounds. He patented the seed, and growers around the world jumped to buy Dill's Atlantic Giant. As they crossed and recrossed varieties, the pumpkins grew ever larger; by 1994, the symbol of Halloween had passed the 1,000-pound mark. ...more

October 22, 2007