ST. PETERSBURG - If she wants it, 10-year-old Madison A. Fernandez has a future as a crime watch coordinator. This morning, St. Petersburg Police Chief Chuck Harmon is scheduled to recognize the Bay Vista Fundamental Elementary School student with a special award for her vigilant actions in November. ...more

December 20, 2007

The dining room of Valencia Garden was abuzz with children's voices. One look inside the private room would prove this wasn't a typical after-school party. ...more

December 12, 2007

TAMPA The "Radio City Christmas Spectacular," starring the eye-high kicks of the Rockettes, returns to Tampa for 52 performances. A holiday staple since 1933, the production features nearly 100 cast members performing famed numbers "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers," "The Living Nativity" and "The 12 Days of Christmas." ...more

December 7, 2007

Think you're smarter than a fifth-grader? How about a 5-year-old chimp? Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won. ...more

December 4, 2007

More than 120 Chamberlain High School students returned to elementary school recently to help out at a school festival. ...more

November 3, 2007

More than 120 Chamberlain High School students returned to elementary school recently to help out at a school festival. Chamberlain students, staff and parents volunteered at Sulphur Springs Elementary on Oct. 27 to help build up its parent-teacher association. The Chamberlain Parent-Teacher-Student Association is focusing on service this school year, President Heidi Ake said. ...more

October 31, 2007

Talk about confidence. The mistress of ceremonies at Thursday's annual Junior Achievement breakfast was a fifth-grader from Schwarzkopf Elementary School who could have been born with a Mr. Microphone in her hand. ...more

October 19, 2007

A Pinellas County sheriff's officer is suspended and demoted after an internal affairs investigation that produced a 1,000-page report made public today. ...more

October 9, 2007

Perhaps not even 137-degree heat in Iraq could have prepared Norman Fabian for the grilling he received from about 30 students at Bishop Larkin Catholic School on Friday morning. ...more

September 29, 2007

When 10-year-old Marie Grandguillotte goes grocery shopping with her mother, she reads the food labels. She looks for calories and ingredients, and knows to avoid fat and cholesterol. ...more

September 19, 2007