By ROBERT ECKHART

The college's president wants Sarasota to lease the auditorium for $1 a year to Ringling, which would pay to convert it to a state-of-the-art soundstage.

Dennis Maffezzoli

Gabe Kapler remembers everything about Hank Blalock, from his days when they were teammates in Texas to watching him carefully after Kapler departed the Rangers.

By CHRISTOPHER O'DONNELL

If the once-mighty Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test is on the wane, you would not know it this week in schools across the state. Local schools pulled out all the stops to try to earn the best results possible as students in third through 11th grades began the main round of FCAT testing Tuesday.