Wearing a bikini top to a football game clearly violates the district's Code of Student Conduct, the Manatee County School Board said Monday evening. ...more

October 23, 2007

A man who was looking through a dumpster behind a Sarasota Blockbuster video store found several boxes of paper with sensitive financial information from customers. ...more

October 22, 2007

A man was shot in the back during an attempted robbery in the Progress Village area last night. The man, whose identity has not been released, was taken to Tampa General Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Debbie Carter said. ...more

October 20, 2007

In an effort to give back to the communities it serves, Suncoast Schools Federal Credit Union has introduced a new innovative check card to aid education. ...more

October 20, 2007

Five Freedom players, five Tampa Bay Tech players and TBT JV coach Henrico Choi have been suspended for six weeks for their involvement in a brawl during the first quarter of a district football game Friday, according to documents released by the FHSAA on Wednesday. Tech has been fined $3,250 while Freedom was fined $1,700. Two more Freedom players were suspended for seven school days. ...more

September 27, 2007

King High officials have suspended football coach Earl Garcia III from all team activities for the next five weeks for his actions following the Lions' loss to Bloomingdale on Friday night. ...more

September 19, 2007

147 Pinellas Sheriff's employees will lose their take home cars starting October 1st. Most of the cars are unmarked vehicles used by the civilian staff. The new policy doesn't affect deputies who take marked patrol cars home. Sheriff Jim Coats says this is part of a larger plan of budget cutbacks. ...more

September 6, 2007