TAMPA -- About 2,200 high school students in northwestern Hillsborough are scheduled to change schools in August, but the moves will do nothing to ease crowding at Chamberlain High School. The school board on Tuesday approved boundary changes for Sickles, Alonso and Gaither, lowering enrollment enough at those three schools to bring them under capacity. Sickles and Gaither will send students to Steinbrenner High School, which is opening in Lutz. ...more

February 11, 2009

A car ran a red light this morning and collided with a school bus at Central Park Drive and East Bay Drive, but none of the Largo High School students on the bus was injured, Largo police said. ...more

February 11, 2009

The Plant City Civitan Club is heading into its 55th year with a legacy of community service. ...more

February 11, 2009

Julian Henshaw toured France, Asia and South America in one day recently and had the passport to prove it. ...more

February 11, 2009

As a teenager, Shelby Knox took steps to prove abstinence-only sex education wasn't working in her Lubbock, Texas, high school. ...more

February 10, 2009

Three of the largest churches in Sebring have banded their youth groups together to form The Wheel, a unique service organization that includes young people from throughout the area. ...more

February 6, 2009

Prosecutors announced this week that they will seek the death penalty for Luc Pierre-Charles Jr. and Tyree Jenkins in the shooting deaths of two Wesley Chapel High School students. ...more

February 6, 2009

A Leto High senior has a chance to see whether her idea can become state law, although it might not make her popular with some of her peers. ...more

February 6, 2009

The Sarasota County School Board shut down a police training class on Tuesday after a complaint that the instructor, Mike Treubert, had shown a pornographic movie to the six officers taking the course. Mike Treubert Treubert, 50, is a North Port city commissioner and retired Venice police officer. He also teaches driver's education and has been a longtime youth sports coach. He refused to comment Wednesday on the complaint or the personnel investigation by the School Board. ...more

February 5, 2009

Jasmine St. Clair never imagined the impact her absentee father would have on her 18th birthday. ...more

February 4, 2009