Dallas Councilman Dwaine Caraway is on a mission: He wants those wearing low-hanging, baggy pants to pull them up. ...more

November 10, 2008

Designer clothes for kids and extra baggy pants were not the fashion a number of years ago when Jayma Hitt was a student at Woodlawn Elementary School. ...more

September 24, 2008

So much for "change," Sen. Barack Obama's premiere campaign slogan. ...more

September 9, 2008

Uniform Policy Needed Regarding "Sagging Pants Bill Doesn't Hold Up" (Our Opinion, Jan. 20): ...more

January 26, 2008

AVON PARK — The sagging pants fashion fad, that is big with some youngsters and young men, is not welcome in Highlands County District Schools. Avon Park Middle School administrators toughened the school dress code this school year because of the big problem with baggy pants. "Before if their pants were falling down we'd give them string or we'd give them a belt and it got to be ridiculous," because it was such a common occurrence, Dean of Students Shane Wirries said Thursday. "We have kids coming with a size 36 waist [pants] and they are a 28." Now students cannot wear pants that are more than one size too big. If they do show up at school with droopy pants they must have a parent come to school with a proper size trouser or the student spends the day at in-school suspension. ...more

January 12, 2008

Renee Bunts' first reaction to Crossover Community Church wasn't positive. ...more

December 22, 2007

Different generations drawn to the hip-hop ministry at Crossover Community Church see it changing lives and fueling a national movement. ...more

December 20, 2007

With its tales of brave men and dutiful women in a simpler, long-vanished Middle East, a Syrian soap opera has become the latest rage in the Arab world during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. ...more

October 13, 2007