Educator who admitted past drug use must again fight for his job. ...more

November 18, 2009

A teacher who admitted to smoking marijuana will remain employed with the school district, but not in the same school or as a drug prevention educator. ...more

October 20, 2009

Out-of-work Floridians who use illegal drugs shouldn't be able to support their habits with state unemployment compensation benefits, a state senator says. ...more

March 17, 2009

Out-of- work Floridians who use illegal drugs shouldn't be able to support their habits with state unemployment compensation benefits, a state senator says. ...more

March 16, 2009

A Saturday morning arrest on a DUI charge proved to be a costly third strike for Florida State's Preston Parker. ...more

February 3, 2009

SEBRING — The number of school expulsion recommendations nearly doubled in the 2007-'08 school year compared to the previous year after drug-related incidents increased more than threefold. About 135 expulsion recommendations were made in the 2007-'08 school year, including 68 that were drug- or alcohol-related. The 2006-'07 school year had 70 expulsion recommendations with 20 that were drug or alcohol-related. ...more

July 5, 2008

TAMPA - The Polk County School Board has received a federal grant of nearly $197,000 for school-based random-drug-testing programs, officials said. ...more

June 6, 2008

One by one, 120 times this school year, students were called into the principal's office without warning at Tampa Catholic High School. ...more

June 2, 2008

For a long time, the drug-abuse problems that tarnished the images of other professional sports rarely touched NASCAR. ...more

April 19, 2008

SEBRING — Random drug testing started this year in the county's middle schools with only one student testing positive during the first semester. A reported 260 students were tested at the School Board of Highlands County's four middle schools with negative results (no drugs in their system) for 259 students and one student testing positive. "So that's pretty good," said Student Services Coordinator Patty Jackson. The students who are tested are picked randomly just as in the high school. Drug testing started at the high school level near the beginning of the 2006-07 school year with school officials confident that it would give students a reason to say "no" when offered drugs. At the high school level thus far this school year, of the 124 students who were tested, two had "positive" results indicating ...more

December 28, 2007