Hillsborough County Circuit judges hope a new program where physicians can spend a day shadowing a jurist may lead to an improved understanding of the legal system. ...more

November 10, 2008

It's time to talk. Urban Meyer might not be ready to take the blinders off the Gators and announce a national championship game countdown, but the tunnel-vision obsessive Florida football coach admits his team's post-season aspirations can no longer be a subject ignored. ...more

November 10, 2008

The University of South Florida's College of Nursing received a $3.5 million federal grant to hire more faculty and enroll more students to fill a growing nursing shortage. ...more

October 27, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama proposes a long list of tax gifts to help you to go to college, get a job, send your child to day care, buy a house and save for retirement. And after you retire he wants you to stop paying taxes. ...more

October 26, 2008

The National Institutes of Health paid the University of Florida's College of Dentistry a $5.3 million grant to open a research center aimed at detecting oral disease early in low-income minority men. ...more

October 22, 2008

Forget rain, sleet or snow: The bite of a venomous snake didn't keep mail carrier Efrain Arango from his appointed rounds. What authorities think was a diamondback rattlesnake latched onto the 66-year-old's left index finger Friday after Arango surprised it in a New Tampa mailbox. Arango said he shook his arm and thwacked the snake against his car door to break its grip. ...more

October 10, 2008

UserNameCheck.com When you think up that perfect new handle for storming social networks and other registration-only sites across the Web, run it through UserNameCheck.com first. The application's purpose is simple: to tell you whether that name is already in use at a pretty impressive list of sites, from Delicious and Digg to eBay and Xbox Live. The list of checks can take some time, so grab a cup of coffee. ...more

October 6, 2008

Erin Stawarz can easily call her parents to baby-sit or suggest toys for Christmas, but one topic remains taboo: asking them to help pay for their grandchildren's college tuition. ...more

October 5, 2008

Four BCS conference schools better known for academic prowess are off to successful starts this season: ...more

October 4, 2008

If Florida's college-bound students haven't thought much about the SAT writing test, they had better start soon: the University of South Florida and others are paying more attention to their scores. ...more

September 28, 2008