An employee with the Department of Juvenile Justice was arrested today on charges he text-messaged obscene and nude pictures of himself to a 14-year-old girl who had been in a juvenile detention center, according to Gulfport police. ...more

September 24, 2008

You can choose a sandwich and salad most days in the cafeteria at Boca Ciega High School, but never anything like this. ...more

September 3, 2008

As a reward for scoring a 5 on some portion of the FCAT test in the spring, 60 juniors and sophomores from Boca Ciega High School boarded a small convoy of limousines for a trip to Columbia Restaurant at The Pier in St. Petersburg, where they ate Cuban sandwiches and the restaurant's signature 1905 salad. ...more

September 2, 2008

Two years ago, Citrus Park Little League won the Little League under-10 Tournament of State Champions in West Virginia. That was when they set themselves on a path to being at Gulfport this year, playing in the Southeast Regional tournament. ...more

August 2, 2008

On any given night, music lovers leaving the St. Pete Times Forum seem to continue the party on the way to their cars. ...more

July 2, 2008

A 14-year-old boy accidentally fired a gun this morning while showing it off to a friend, shooting the friend in the arm, Gulfport police said ...more

June 26, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG – Police think the bicycle-riding teenager seen toting three rifle cases had taken the guns from a home during a burglary earlier in the day. ...more

January 25, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG Students at seven schools previously in lockdown are now being released, as authorities continue to search for a teenager riding a bicycle who witnesses say was toting three camouflage rifle cases, St. Petersburg police say. ...more

January 24, 2008

A Boca Ciega High School student was left standing in his underwear today after two men hit him in the head with a handgun and robbed him of his clothes, cell phone and money. ...more

November 9, 2007

Geoff Kingberg, an Orthodox Jew who dons a yarmulke, was at the end of his day substitute teaching Wednesday when he picked up a student assignment on which someone had scrawled: 'Jews will die soon.' ...more

October 26, 2007