A confirmed case of tuberculosis at Plant City High School has prompted health department officials to recommend testing of seven separate classes and all the lunch room personnel, school district spokeswoman Linda Cobbe said today. ...more

November 5, 2009

More than 100 farmworkers protested Sunday afternoon outside a Publix demanding the grocer pay higher prices for tomatoes to help increase the wages of pickers. ...more

October 26, 2009

Police are looking for a man who confronted a female student in a high school bathroom, then was seen 90 minutes later acting suspiciously on another high school campus. ...more

September 11, 2009

Pasco County health officials have confirmed two cases of swine flu at a youth camp. ...more

July 3, 2009

Pasco County health officials have confirmed two cases of swine flu at a youth camp. ...more

July 2, 2009

I would like to thank I-Hop for making the Christmas season an unforgettable experience for students at Fred Wild Elementary School. I-Hop donated two large Christmas stockings filled with several gifts. Students could win the stockings by earning tickets for good work habits and behavior. ...more

December 21, 2008

State investigators ordered the removal of 54 children and teenagers from the Tampa Bay Academy in Riverview after finding the academy failed to protect its residents and staff from "known and obvious dangerous behaviors." ...more

December 18, 2008

Three Pasco County schools had to do some quick cleaning up this morning after graffiti was found on walls, sidewalks, poles, stop signs and elsewhere. A staff member reported the vandalism about 5:30 a.m. at Hudson High, Hudson Middle and Northwest Elementary schools, the Pasco County School District reported. ...more

December 5, 2008

Todd Bentley, an atypical evangelist who drew thousands to a series of summer revivals in Lakeland, plans to divorce his wife amid revelations that he is romantically involved with the nanny of his children, according to his ministry. ...more

December 3, 2008

TAMPA Todd Bentley, the former drug-abusing evangelist who drew thousands to a series of summer revivals in Lakeland, plans on divorcing his wife amid revelations that he is romantically involved with the nanny of his children, according to his ministry. Rumors of an extramarital affair surfaced near the end of the 15-week revival, and, in August, Bentley resigned from the board of directors of Fresh Fire Ministries. He plans to move to South Carolina, where he will undergo counseling by fellow ministers who are focusing on his "restoration," according to a statement posted on the ministry's Web site last week. ...more

December 2, 2008