Science teacher Kathryn Bylsma noticed something during the years as she tried to engage her middle school students in their lessons. ...more

November 8, 2009

The season came to an abrupt end for the Avon Park boys soccer team on Tuesday, and head coach Craig Morris couldn't help but feel a bit frustrated. ...more

January 29, 2009

This is for Little Big Man. Across the Pacific, in Uwajima, Ehime prefecture, on the Japanese island of Shikoku, where Akinori Iwamura was born 29 years ago, they would have partied until dawn after his big Friday night if it wasn't already 9 in the morning Saturday. Japan is 13 hours ahead of Tropicana Field. The Rays are two games ahead of the White Sox in the AL Division Series. ...more

October 4, 2008

Two French exchange students from the international student exchange program Echanges Culturels Internationaux, Sandy Promonet, 15, and Lauren Seynaeve, 14, found common ground recently with local girls who like to twirl batons. ...more

August 13, 2008

BRADENTON - Eduardo Garcia Roves was outside the Save-A-Lot grocery store on 14th Street on April 7 when a teenager ran up to him, grabbed him and tried to slip on handcuffs. ...more

May 4, 2008

Writing on a whiteboard and offering an animated lecture, Zach Cronin is teaching principles of macroeconomics to 30 or so students, about half of them from outside the United States. ...more

January 31, 2008

When Florida forward Dan Werner strolled into the training room to get taped before the Gators' game Sunday against Vanderbilt, he was shocked to see his former road-game roommate, Lee Humphrey, standing there - especially without his hair. ...more

January 29, 2008

SEBRING — Basketball isn't all glitz and glamour. After all, somebody has to take out the garbage. Sebring backcourt mates Javier Medina and junior Chris Grubb have done just that for the Streaks this season, with Grubb earning the nickname "Garbage Man" by head coach Princeton Harris for his ability to do the dirty things to help his team. Grubb is a natural baller and consummate team player, who can be an explosive offensive threat one minute and diving on the floor for a loose ball the next. His nickname is a moniker he's proud to wear. "I'm the type of player that'll do anything my team needs," Grubb said. "I play hard at both ends and am always working hard to improve." ...more

December 7, 2007

The children's rhyme "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" was still playing in their heads a week after the mission team returned from Nicaragua. ...more

December 1, 2007