NEWS & NOTES Letson Going To Florida State Plant standout Doug Letson, one of Hillsborough County's top boys golfers in each of the last three seasons, has verbally committed to Florida State University. ...more

November 6, 2008

Hillsborough's 191,000 students will soon carry voter identification cards and cast presidential ballots on their school computers. ...more

October 20, 2008

The Rays are four victories away from the World Series. ...more

October 6, 2008

Some of the top boy's and girl's high school golf programs in the state came to Sebring on Monday for the annual Crutchfield/Hawkins Invitational. ...more

September 17, 2008

University of South Florida coach Jim Leavitt approached associate head coach Wally Burnham with a question Wednesday. ...more

September 14, 2008

Browsing in Barnes & Noble one afternoon, I found myself drawn to the "Summer Reading" table, where neatly stacked piles of books by Charles Dickens and John Steinbeck and Zora Neale Hurston sat waiting for the teenagers who were supposed to read them by the first day of school. I had to wonder how many students were in fact turning the pages with any real desire to get to the next one. ...more

September 14, 2008

The frontier wasn't all about roughnecks, shootouts and riding off into the sunset. ...more

August 29, 2008

Despite a decade of education reform, tens of thousands of Florida's high school students don't read well enough to survive in the work force. ...more

July 1, 2008

So how do you follow up a stellar career with the Brandon High wrestling program and college completion at the University of the Cumberlands? ...more

June 28, 2008

A Sarasota County man was in a doctor-induced coma Wednesday after being struck by lightning Tuesday at a Siesta Key beach. ...more

June 26, 2008