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PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – A brutal fight between several teenage girls was caught on camera. It’s not known who threw the first punch and what the fight was about, but the vicious beatdown involved girls aged from 15 to 17 years old. It happened at West Broward High School on Jan. 24. The video begins with a school security guard holding one girl wearing a blue shirt back while another comes up to her screaming and appearing to want to fight. Then utter chaos erupts. A group of girls appear to gang up on another girl and just deliver punch...

Just on!! School bus collides with tractor-trailer. Seven dead....5 are kids.

Sunday, June 16, 2002 The Associated Press State & Local Wire Principal Frances Gupton, Jacksonville, FL, and Kevin Twomey, president of the Jacksonville-based St. Joe Co -- Do business leaders belong in public schools? This principal now says: YES! School-business program aimed at raising grades By Ron Word Principal Frances Gupton stopped celebrating her school's high marks on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Tests to fire off an e-mail to a businessman who helped her inner city school make an academic U-turn. The message was for Kevin Twomey, president of the Jacksonville-based St. Joe Co., who had volunteered as a...