For the last three years, Denzel Drone and Duran Lowe helped terrorize Hillsborough County football teams as leaders of the Plant City High defense. Their talents were always recognized by local coaches, but they obviously were noticed beyond the Tampa Bay area as well. ...more

February 11, 2009

Unless someone else runs, landowners in the Sun 'n Lake of Sebring Improvement District will decide between incumbent Frank Guglielmi and challenger Richard E. "Dick" Miller for a seat on the district's board of supervisors. ...more

November 22, 2008

On Nov. 4, Democrat Teresa Conroy will try to keep Republican Ann Hildebrand from a seventh - and, according to Hildebrand, final - four-year term on the County Commission. ...more

October 18, 2008

More children than ever are taking algebra in eighth grade but they are not necessarily learning more math, private researchers report. ...more

September 22, 2008

It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe - or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday. ...more

September 8, 2008

Chaos. Anyone who has ever had an unsuccessful relationship can identify with that title of a Jayne Kelli song. According to Kelli, the lyrics tell the story of "trying really hard for someone to understand you, and they just never do." ...more

July 26, 2008

For apple growers such as Abby Jacobson, making or losing money depends as much on what they don't do as what they do. ...more

July 12, 2008

In hiring a police leader to bring together a disparate and understaffed campus emergency team, the University of South Florida looked to a veteran chief from Michigan who has organized everything from community policing to riot response. ...more

January 15, 2008

The University of South Florida has named a visiting instructor of criminology to lead its newly created public safety team on an interim basis. ...more

January 4, 2008

A much-anticipated report from the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness is chock full of ideas for whipping flabby Floridians into shape. ...more

December 31, 2007