LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School Board will hold its first hearing on the 2008-09 budget Tuesday as it prepares for what is expected to be a tight financial year that could get even worse with more state funding cuts and rising gas and electricity prices. ...more

July 24, 2008

Investigators hoped to confirm today the identity of a woman whose body was found bound with duct tape with her uterus cut open in the apartment of another woman who falsely claimed a newborn baby was her own. ...more

July 20, 2008

Chris Steiglen was in science class when his cell phone went off. He quickly answered, but it was too late. His teacher confiscated the phone and his parents had to come to collect it. ...more

July 17, 2008

Chris Steiglen was in science class at Farnell Middle School last year when his cell phone went off. He quickly answered it, but it was too late. The phone was confiscated by the teacher and Steiglen's parents had to come after school to collect the phone. ...more

July 16, 2008

Preliminary numbers show it will take a $169 million budget to operate the Highlands County School District for the 2008-'09 fiscal year. ...more

July 14, 2008

This year's sixth annual YMCA Strong Leader Dinner will honor Sherrie Mueller. ...more

July 9, 2008

SEBRING – School District Transportation Director David Solomon plans to pamper the nine new school buses being readied to go into service in August because with a statewide education budget crisis he's slated to only get three new ones next year. The 77-passenger school buses, costing about $99,000 a piece, were purchased within the 2007-08 budget. ...more

July 2, 2008

SEBRING — Creating a smaller budget, due to reduced state funding, should not be done by eliminating teaching positions, School Board of Highlands County members said Tuesday. To provide time for more discussion, the board discussed tabling the reappointment roster – the listing of teachers and administrators who will have jobs with the district in 2008-09. But with the contract year ending June 30 and the next scheduled school board meeting on July 8, that would have left a gap where employees would not have a job. ...more

June 25, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - It could have been a time for celebration when Sandra Toner's 10-year-old son, Jacob, conquered the third grade FCAT reading exam, even if he did it with a minimal passing score. ...more

June 21, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Pasco County third-graders showed improvement in FCAT scores for reading and math, but their math scores still lag behind the state average. ...more

May 22, 2008