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BY MICHAEL BUTLER NNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – Even in the Internet age, most schools are still made up of brick and mortar, books and pencils, classrooms and playgrounds. Academy Prep Center of St. Petersburg is not that different. But it is also made from donations, volunteers and the dedication of mostly single-parent households.… Continue reading School strives to break the cycle of generational poverty

BY MICHAEL BUTLER NNB Student Reporter John Martin may be the most ordinary sleuth you will ever meet. He is not grizzled or hardened. He doesn’t wear a rumpled raincoat or a deerstalker hat. And you won’t find him chain-smoking in his rundown office while a leggy dame of questionable veracity darkens his doorway. But… Continue reading He finds the facts, the people and the payments that elude others

BY MICHAEL BUTLER NNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – Jerry Biss is one of those parents who make you feel like the old nature- versus-nurture debate has ended. Game over. It’s nurture. The 49-year-old father sits calmly and contentedly behind his son Zack as he plays guitar and sings for a room full of admirers.… Continue reading He lives his son’s dream, every step of the way

BY DUNCAN RODMAN NNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – Tucked away in the once-barren food desert of 22nd Street S is an unlikely food oasis that has withstood the test of time. Lorene’s Fish and Crab House, a restaurant with only two tables and a kitchen the size of an average living room, is the… Continue reading Lorene’s is still thriving after two decades in The Deuces

BY HILLARY TERHUNE NNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – The road to a career in journalism is filled with bumps and ruts – awkward phrasing, butchered grammar, factual errors, misspelled names. That’s why teacher Tom Zucco begins his journalism class every day with a writing exercise. His students watch a CBS Evening News feature called… Continue reading Inside a struggling middle school, the student newspaper is thriving

BY SUSAN GODFREY NNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – Eighteen years ago, an angry black man jumped out of his car at a north St. Petersburg intersection and confronted a dozen white people holding signs. The man was the brother of 18-year-old TyRon Lewis, who had been shot and killed by a white police officer… Continue reading 18 Years later, he still grieves for his slain brother

BY SUSAN GODFREY NNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – She dumps the half dozen newspapers on her desk that she read over the weekend. Joshing friends call her a bag lady, she says, because she is always carrying around a purse, a lunch sack and a work bag with papers spilling out. She usually works… Continue reading Her job: influence decision makers and public opinion

BY SALEM SOLOMON NNB Student Reporter On Feb. 7, 2014, Andrew Joseph III was one of hundreds of teenagers hanging out with friends at the Florida State Fair. They had gotten free tickets from their school district and were taking advantage of the night out. As the night wore on, things became rowdy. To restore… Continue reading Could Ferguson-like violence happen in St. Petersburg, Tampa?

BY SALEM SOLOMON NNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – They grew up in the same St. Petersburg household, but at first glance sisters Lynae and Ramona Brayboy couldn’t be more different. Lynae, 33, pursued a career in medicine and couldn’t wait to get away from a place she considered limiting in many ways. “It would… Continue reading For daughters of St. Petersburg, two divergent paths

BY SALEM SOLOMON NNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG – Seated in her bright office with sunshine streaming through floor-to-ceiling windows, Vicki Krueger stared at two computer monitors. On one, a live webinar being filmed next door showed the image of a reporter and a host talking about “Interviewing: The Art of the Two-Way Conversation.” Questions… Continue reading She helps traditional journalists migrate to digital media