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SARASOTA (2009-11-20) Sarasota's police chief was suspended and a police officer fired Friday, in the wake of an investigation of an arrest that was made in June.
TAMPA (2009-11-19) Hillsborough County Public Schools will receive a $100 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to overhaul teacher placements within schools. Co-founder Melinda Gates says the grant will create a system for identifying effective teachers and placing them in every classroom.
TAMPA (2009-11-19) Thursday was the Great American Smokeout, and a special kind of van is rolling through Florida with a message to keep kids off cigarettes. It stopped at the USF Medical Clinic, which marked the day by banning smoking on its part of the Tampa campus.
TAMPA (2009-11-18) Organizers of a drive to change the way Florida draws up its Congressional and legislative districts say they've got enough petitions to place it on next year's ballot. Now, they've got to convince the voters that it's worthwhile.
TAMPA (2009-11-18)Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai will be sworn in this week for another five year term. Meanwhile, Senior Master Sergeant Rex Temple came across one of Karzsai's predecessors. The Tampa airman was out on a routine mission with his Afghan army counterpart when they came across the gravesite of a former president of Afghanistan.
CLEARWATER (2009-11-18)If you happened to see a fire engine parked outside a school Wednesday most likely the crew was not on an emergency call. It was the Great American Teach-In where professionals, craftsmen and business people tell kids about their jobs. At Belcher Elementary in Clearwater, there was a fire engine and a horse of a different color.
TAMPA (2009-11-17)Law enforcement officers, prosecutors and mental health experts are calling on Florida legislators to spend more money on drug treatment, re-entry programs and diversion strategies instead of expanding state prisons. That’s a bottom line message from a two day “Smart Justice Summit” in Tampa.
TAMPA (2009-11-12)The hand-selected board members who lead Florida’s university system, state colleges and public schools met together for the first time Thursday at Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter. Their goal is to create a unified system for students from pre-kindergarten through post graduate and to toughen standards.
LAND O'LAKES (11-11-09) The problem of homeless veterans isn't new. But the downturn in the economy has meant a lot more vets don't have a roof over their heads. A first-ever event held by a new homeless resource center in Pasco County is giving some homeless vets a helping hand.
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St. Petersburg is working on a deal with two major billboard companies to take down 100 old signs in the city and replace them with 10 new digital ones. In Tampa, city officials are finalizing an agreement with the companies to end years of lawsuits over the number and placement of billboards,...
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The University of South Florida was a recent stop on a nationwide tour by Juan Sepúlveda, the Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans. This week’s University Beat on WUSF 89.7 FM listens in as Bay area voices join the...
Students in USF's College of Education are teaching AND learning at the same time by serving as tutors at a number of Hillsborough County Middle Schools. University Beat shows you how the tutoring project of the SunCoast Area Teacher Training (SCATT) Honors Program, with the backing of a...
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Florida wildlife artist Ernie Simmons talks with his fishing buddy Joe Mercurio about how Simmons developed his technique for painting Florida’s vast wildlife population and the state’s native scenery. Many have compared the Dunedin resident’s...
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