For decades, USF, with some help from the federal government, has set aside money, faculty and space in its residence halls each summer for students from low-income families who are the first generation in their families to go to college. ...more

July 7, 2008

EARLY CUPCAKES: The Seminoles will be without as many as 10 players off their two-deep roster for the first three games of the season due to their involvement in an academic cheating scandal, prompting FSU to schedule patsies Western Carolina and Chattanooga the first two games. The teams went a combined 3-19 last season, which means FSU had better pass the early test. ...more

July 1, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Last fall, more than 800 juniors, sophomores and freshmen were transferred from Land O' Lakes High School to the newly built Sunlake High School, leaving coaches to deal with a number of uncertainties involving rosters, equipment and schedules. ...more

June 29, 2008

School staff members and families of students the principal said made a pact to get pregnant and have babies together have no information to back the claim, the mayor of Gloucester said Sunday. ...more

June 23, 2008

The girls showed up repeatedly at the high school health clinic, asking for pregnancy tests. But their reactions to the test results were puzzling: high-fives if they were expecting, long faces if they weren't. ...more

June 21, 2008

Ex-Freedom High track star Calvin Smith II grabbed the fifth All-America title of his University of Florida career and the second of the meet at Saturday's NCAA Track and Field Championships in Des Moines Iowa. ...more

June 14, 2008

- The Hudson Lady Cobras U19 soccer team did not come home from last weekend's Florida Youth Soccer Association State Cup final four in Fort Myers with first-place hardware, but that certainly does not diminish all that they had accomplished. ...more

June 7, 2008

A new principal will take over Carrollwood Day School's high school this summer, ushering its first senior class to graduation. ...more

June 4, 2008

Two students have admitted to carrying out an alleged senior prank at Hernando High School in which fake letters and condoms were sent to as many as 400 students' parents. ...more

June 4, 2008

The phones at Hernando High School have been ringing off the hook with irate calls from parents who received an unusually sly prank letter in the mail over the weekend. ...more

June 3, 2008