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Byline: Mary Spicuzza Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY NETWORK Florence Grady and Augie Palmisano reached the elevator doors at the same time. Both were tenants at Juneau Village Garden Apartments [...]

Byline: Cary Spivak and Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY NETWORK MILWAUKEE - Chappelle Roe said she was busy delivering gifts to two low-income families on Christmas Eve in [...]

Byline: Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY NETWORK MILWAUKEE - The list of registered COVID-19 vaccine providers in Wisconsin features hundreds of hospitals, pharmacies, doctors and health centers - [...]

Byline: Mary Spicuzza and Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY NETWORK Gov. Tony Evers will open a 530-bed field hospital at State Fair Park next Wednesday to help hospitals [...]

Byline: Mary Spicuzza and Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY NETWORK MILWAUKEE - Organizers upended the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday as they told state delegations not to travel [...]

Byline: Mary Spicuzza and Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel USA TODAY NETWORK Juul Labs could lose more than three-quarters of its sales because of a potential federal ban on flavored [...]

Byline: Bill Glauber and Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY NETWORK - WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee will host the 2020 Democratic National Convention, edging out two large and deep-pocketed [...]

Byline: Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Penzeys Spices, a Wauwatosa-based company famous for its spices, is in the middle of a political firestorm after its owner slammed President-elect Donald Trump [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA When state officials met with representatives of the Early Learning Coalition of Pasco and Hernando Counties on Thursday, one word kept coming up:Dysfunction.'It's just dysfunctional,' Agency for [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA Pasco voters shot down a ballot proposal that would have taken away their power to choose the superintendent of Pasco County Schools at the ballot box. The [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA First, they faced a runoff.Now, District 1 School Board candidates Allen Altman and Cathi Compton are headed for a recount, with Altman holding a razor-thin lead.On Tuesday [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA School Board members rejected their superintendent's recommendation to fire Patti Withers, the Pasco High School teacher who tried to kill herself at the school last May.At an [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA There's a glimmer of hope for the Language Academy. The board of the struggling New Port Richey charter school held an emergency meeting Monday afternoon to develop [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA One question on theballot could dramatically change how the county chooses a leader for Pasco County schools.Should the superintendent continue to be elected by voters, or should [...]

Byline: THOMAS LAKE; MARY SPICUZZA As the credit cards vanished, a pattern formed. Teachers were victims. Public schools were crime scenes. The thief used discretion: He snatched the cards one [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA Frustrated by their struggles to distribute a one-page informational flier on a Nov. 7 ballot referendum - which asks whether the school superintendent should be elected or [...]

Byline: THOMAS LAKE; MARY SPICUZZA; JAMAL THALJI Time cheated Christina Welch. In a few seconds of anger, at the dawn of her life, she was shaken so hard that her [...]

Byline: THOMAS LAKE; MARY SPICUZZA; JAMAL THALJI Time cheated Christina Welch. In a few seconds of anger, at the dawn of her life, she was shaken so hard that her [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA Who knew one little flier could inspire so much discussion?The Pasco County School Board held an emergency meeting Tuesday afternoon to clarify its action plan for an [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA The District 3 School Board race pits an incumbent with eight years of experience against an energetic newcomer.Board Chairwoman Cathi Martin and J.W. Mitchell High School career [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA It may be the least-talked about item on the Nov. 7 ballot. But it's a question that touches the lives of everyone enrolled in or working for [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA One penny can make a world of difference.Just ask District 1 School Board candidates Allen Altman and Cathi Compton, the top two vote-getters from the September primary [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA The question has incited controversy in recent months, pitting parents against parents.Should the superintendent of Pasco County's public school district remain an elected position, or should School [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA These are tight financial times for the Early Learning Coalition of Pasco and Hernando counties, and some board members are worried they may have to cut child [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA Pasco High School was the one place Patti Withers had been truly happy, she wrote in a May suicide note.But the language and reading teacher had just [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA Patti Withers sat with her head hanging down, listening as School Board attorney Edmund McKenna described the day Withers 'brought a weapon to school and tried to [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA Coping with breast cancer inspired Marge Whaley to create a new word.'Taxoled.'Taxol is a chemotherapy drug.'Taxoled' means being spent, exhausted. Crying at the drop of a hat.But [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA ***** Correction (10/5/06): Chuck Rushe, who died Tuesday, was the chief financial officer of Pasco County Schools. A headline Wednesday said he was the former CFO. ***** [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA Virginia Rincon-Stitt stood, her two boys at her side, and asked for help. She said her sons, Aaron and Marshall, 'will be lost in the shuffle' if [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA The Pasco County School Board is set to take on three key tasks today: wrestle with questions of morality, decide whether to close a charter school and [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA It all comes down to a question of what fits. Bill Montford, chief executive officer of the Florida Association of District School Superintendents, told the Pasco County [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA; ABBIE VANSICKLE A Pasco County middle school teacher was arrested Wednesday night after deputies discovered marijuana plants at her Riverview home, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said.Deputies [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA On Monday morning, board members of the Early Learning Coalition of Pasco and Hernando Counties showed up at a meeting to vote on the agency's more than [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA On Monday morning, board members of the Early Learning Coalition of Pasco and Hernando Counties showed up at a meeting to vote on the agency's more than [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA One hundred Pasco residents were asked this question as part of a random survey:Do you know that in November, you will be asked to vote on whether [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA On May 22, just three days before summer vacation, a language teacher at Pasco High School went to an office and began taking the antianxiety medications Alprazolam [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA Bruce McCart had a problem with authority. He grew up stubborn.'He was probably the least likely of us to graduate from high school,' his younger brother Craig [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA The days of an all-woman Pasco County School Board are drawing to a close.Frank Parker, a certified public accountant and longtime politician, defeated political newcomer Lance A. [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA LAND O'LAKES - Thecompany that created the Athenian Academy of Pasco, the Greek-language charter school that has been operating without a Greek teacher since it opened last [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA The Pasco County School Board is facing some major changes.On Tuesday, voters will cast their ballots on nine candidates who are vying for three School Board seats. [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA The band director at Pasco Middle School was arrested Friday after he admitted having sex with a female student, the Dade City Police Department reported.Michael A. Black, [...]

Byline: GINA PACE; MARY SPICUZZA ; MINDY RUBENSTEIN Tammy Taylor's 13-year-old daughter would rather ride her bike to Dr. John Long Middle School than catch the bus. But Taylor won't [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA Cathi Martin loves her job. 'To tell the truth,' Martin said. 'I feel I was born to do this.' However, her job seems to be a popular [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA It would be difficult to find two candidates with resumes as different as Frank Parker and Lance Shortt. Parker, 61, a certified public accountant and longtime politician, [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA The District 1 School Board race is practically a celebrity affair for Pasco County. It seems just about everybody in Pasco knows at least one of the [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA Pasco County schools superintendent Heather Fiorentino has asked for a criminal investigation into the Language Academy after someone told district officials that there had been embezzlement at [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA Ninth-grader Zoe Rott was so excited about becoming a cheerleader for Land O'Lakes High School that she painted her toenails to match the school colors - alternating [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA It was the huge discrepancy in the budget's bottom line that caught his eye. 'What happened to $900,000?' board member David Meglay asked the group, after realizing [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA LAND O'LAKES - Pasco County's first Greek-language school is missing a key component.Classes in Greek.The Athenian Academy of Pasco, which opened on Aug. 8, is still waiting [...]

Byline: MARY SPICUZZA Assistant County Attorney Anthony Salzano was given permission to make telephone calls supporting School Board District 1 candidate Cathi Compton. He has no idea why. Salzano, a [...]