The parents of a 16-year-old girl who wore a wire to catch a Bartow High School teacher accused of soliciting sex from her were fully aware and supportive of the plan to catch the man, police said. ...more

December 21, 2007

BARTOW - The parents of a 16-year-old girl who wore a wire to catch a Bartow High School teacher accused of soliciting sex from her were fully aware and supportive of the plan to catch the man, police said. ...more

December 20, 2007

As children across the country fill out their holiday wish lists, one group of high school students remembered that Christmas is also a time for giving. ...more

December 15, 2007

After a three-hour, emotional hearing filled with apologies, tears and requests for mercy, a former Wharton High School teacher and basketball coach was sentenced to three years in prison followed by three years probation after pleading guilty to a sexual relationship with one of her students. ...more

December 6, 2007

TAMPA - Former Wharton High School teacher and coach Jaymee Wallace, 30, received three years in prison today for lewd and lascivious battery and unlawful sexual activity with a minor student. ...more

December 5, 2007

When it came to encouraging fitness, few did more to get Americans off the couch than John F. Kennedy. ...more

November 23, 2007

They call it "passing the trash" - the practice that allows teachers accused of sexual misconduct to quietly leave and find a new job in another town with a fresh crop of unsuspecting victims. ...more

November 19, 2007

Vietnam veteran Frederick A. Taylor Jr. stood at the lectern Wednesday morning, trying his best to convince a group of glassy-eyed high school students that they should register to vote. ...more

November 14, 2007

TAMPA - The Hillsborough County School Board on Tuesday suspended without pay Christina Butler, a Middleton High School teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old male student. ...more

November 7, 2007

Voters turned out Tuesday in municipalities and special elections around the Tampa Bay area, deciding on issues as imposing as who is going to run the cities to matters as trivial as whether the city treasurer's report should be hand delivered. ...more

November 7, 2007