Katie Sharer recalled how nervous she was as a 16-year-old competing in a swimsuit for Florida Strawberry Festival queen. ...more

July 25, 2008

The Florida Strawberry Festival queen pageant is ditching its swimsuit competition. Pageant officials had received complaints in recent years that some contestants were showing too much skin. But the complaints didn't factor into the decision to replace the swimsuits with a casual wear competition, a pageant official said today. ...more

July 24, 2008

High school baseball coaches constantly instruct their hitters to make every plate appearance count. Former Bishop McLaughlin player Marcel Duarte appears to have taken that advice. ...more

July 13, 2008

Former Hernando High School senior Nadia Estrada loved taking German class at school. ...more

June 27, 2008

BUT OFFICIALS SAY OTHER FACTORS WERE AT PLAY ...more

June 26, 2008

The Knights of St. Peter Claver of the St. Peter Claver Catholic Church hosted a luncheon May 22 at the Tampa Yacht and Country Club to benefit the Herbert D. Carrington Sr. Memorial Scholarship. ...more

June 25, 2008

The Tribune's June 14th editorial is yet another unnecessarily harsh jab at the public schools. ...more

June 23, 2008

Classroom seats are filling fast at Hillsborough Community College, a result of a tight economy that has sent workers back to school and forced several state universities to cut back their admissions. ...more

June 22, 2008

Playing two varsity sports and maintaining a 4.3 grade-point average would keep most high school seniors busy, but that is just the beginning for Mitchell High's Jayne Raponi. ...more

June 15, 2008

It used to be that a 4.0 grade-point average was considered a perfect "A," but the numbers posted by some recent Hillsborough high school graduates have been positively stratospheric - including the county's top GPA of 8.68 earned by a student at King High School who was this year's numbers leader. ...more

June 14, 2008