A poorly structured online course, a lack of attention and sloppy oversight of "one rogue tutor" combined to "contaminate" a class in which as many as 50 student-athletes may be penalized for cheating, Florida State University President T.K. Wetherell said today. ...more

December 21, 2007

SEBRING — An oversight by school district and support personnel negotiators will require another bargaining session to work out details on incentive pay. As the school board was about to approve the support union employment contract recently it was pointed out that a small portion of the contract was not in the agreement the employees ratified Dec. 2. The language concerned job incentive pay for employees with two- or four-year college degrees. "That poses for us a potential problem," said Sam Lee, negotiator for the school district. "It is my opinion that should the board adopt page 21 ... you in all probability will have committed an unfair labor practice," because it was not included in the contract ratified by the employees. ...more

December 16, 2007

Hernando County Human Resources Director Barbara Dupre said her department has received more than 30 applications for the soon-to-be-vacant fleet manager's position. ...more

December 7, 2007

We worry and fret about the price of gasoline, the cost of food and the lack of rain. These things are insignificant compared to the plans that are being worked on which will change our lives and country. Little is known about these plans as they are being carried out in a clandestine fashion. I am talking about an effort by the present administration to establish what can be described as a union between the United States, Mexico and Canada, very much like the European Union, described as a North American Union. If this comes about, it will mean the eventual end of our Constitution, our government being replaced by a North American government. ...more

December 6, 2007

The Hernando County School Board is not giving up control of the district's charter schools. ...more

November 25, 2007

Planning commissioners declined to allow the expansion of a controversial group home on Fort King Road after neighbors raised concerns that residents at the facility weren't being properly monitored. ...more

November 8, 2007

Mattel on Tuesday recalled more than 172,000 Fisher-Price kitchen toys in the United States and Europe because several children choked and gagged on small, detachable parts. ...more

November 7, 2007

Abandoning its secrecy claims, NASA promised Congress on Wednesday it will reveal results of an unprecedented federal aviation survey that found aircraft near collisions, runway interference and other safety problems occur far more often than previously recognized. ...more

November 1, 2007

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday ordered new measures to improve oversight of private guards who protect U.S. diplomats in Iraq, including tighter rules of engagement and a board to investigate any killings. ...more

October 24, 2007

JACKSONVILLE - The group charged with cleaning up the state's foster care system after one child went missing and another was found dead released its first recommendations for change Wednesday. Ideas ranged from collecting DNA samples from foster children to allow better tracking to ensuring all adults living in a foster home have background checks to following up on previous requirements from the Department of Children & Families that foster care children be seen on a monthly basis. ...more

October 11, 2007