Miami's School for Advanced Studies has finally cracked the top ten of Newsweek's annual America's Best High School list, coming in at sixth this year. That would make it Florida's second-best public high school amongst a top ten list that is surprisingly Sunshine State heavy.

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Someone contact Cedric Gervais, because molly was found at the Feinberg Fisher K-8 school in Miami Beach this afternoon. Two 14-year-old students were apparently experimenting with the drug and had to be rushed to the hospital after complaining about a rapid heartbeat.

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A 2008 center spread of the student newspaper, the Beachcomber.

Beach High has lost its greatest "mom." The school's longtime principal, Rosann Sidener, lost her 13-month battle with cervical cancer this week. Students and staff are dealing with the difficult loss.

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Florida's Lake County School Board might ban all extracurricular clubs as a way to avoid having to approve the formation of a Gay-Straight Alliance. Yes, students may have to say bye-bye to their FCA, 4H, and Drama Club membership cards all because some school board members are stuck in the past. More »

Manuel Cruz, a teacher Hialeah Senior High, has been arrested after allegedly hitting a 17-year-old girl who refused to have sex with him. Cruz did not meet the girl through school, but rather met her at his apartment complex on December 9.

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Charles Hurley, the former head of the Miami-Dade Schools police force, has been hit with a lawsuit by two female officers who say the chief sexually harassed them. One of the women claims that Hurley was brandishing his boner around in front of her, while another claims the chief forced her hand into his pants. The two say that the School Board did nothing to stop Hurley's behavior, and say they faced retaliation because they refused his advances.

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Sorry recent University of Miami Alums, The Onion really doesn't understand why even though you owe the school at least five figures in student debt, you still love it so much.

In traditional satirical style, the paper introduced us to "Mark Felder," a fictional '07 grad who owes the school $50,000, but still loves it even though it left him with, "no marketable job skills as an undergraduate."

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James Tracy

Up at Florida Atlantic University, communications professor James Tracy has been regaling students for a decade with his thoughts on 9-11, the Oklahoma City bombing and the Kennedy assassination. He's basically that uncle who spends all week reading Infowars so he can corner you at Thanksgiving to tell you how the CIA really killed JFK.

Tracy's conspiracy theories have gone national this week, though, as he's tackled the Sandy Hook massacre. The tenured professor wonders whether Adam Lanza's murder of 26 kids and adults was actually just an elaborately staged exercise by Obama's government -- or really, if it ever happened at all!

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