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January 20, 2002
Flight of the fledglings
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[Times photo: John Pendygraft]
Who are the kids that can fly before they drive? A few motivated minors reach for the sky and dream of the Air Force and commercial aviation..
Top stories
Fitting or futile? Honoring a dream with a road
It was to be a lasting tribute to one of the world's great civil rights leaders.

Mary Jo Melone
Sept. 11's millionaires: Is this what we gave for?
If I had a million dollars, once I got done paying the taxes, I'd redo the house, go to Paris, and sock away money for my daughter's education and my own retirement.

Peace march rallies at base
TAMPA -- Edna Lee doesn't stand around talking about truth and freedom. For her, it means walking.

Liquid death
Just a teaspoonful of a drug called GHB can have the same effect as more than a dozen beers -- and knock the user unconscious without warning. Now imagine someone high on GHB behind the wheel of a car.

Arrest sends man 'home' to jail
INVERNESS -- For some, jail is home -- the only place they can get a bed, food and mental health treatment.

Bubbles muddle Pinellas' plans to settle wastewater problems
It's not that they haven't tried.

Pinellas County manatee deaths rise to 9 in 2001
As soon as she saw the manatee in Tarpon Springs' Kreamer Bayou, Cyndi Sweeney sensed something was wrong.

Metro Week in Review
INVERNESS -- Clifford Micklos shot his wife in the head. But the 86-year-old is going to receive house arrest and probation in a plea deal for what he calls the mercy killing of his gravely ill wife.


South Pinellas headlines
  • Buzz at the hub
  • Council rejects Lealman annexation
  • Music, vigil marks King's birthday
  • Indian Rocks hears 'not cool' on skatepark
  • Abe going bald? Ink runs? Bill is phony
  • How high can beach structures be built?
  • Lake Maggiore plan raises questions
  • Problems on 2 bridges snarl traffic to beaches
  • Outback probably won't sizzle till summer
  • Heritage selects two vice presidents
  • Healthy haven
  • Beaches notebook
  • Neighborhood notebook
  • Lealman activists chat with suitors
  • St. Anthony's benefit was all funny business
  • Now you can talk to City Hall on your computer
  • Solid double yellow line marks road to confusion
  • Treasure Island may drop bridge pass perk
  • Friendly drug-sniffer was 'pet and a true partner'
  • Treasure Island bridge price rises, falls on finer features
  • Malls cozy up to kids with play areas, more
  • 560 tickets given in 1 day
  • Cops get jitters, too during traffic stops
  • What's up on campus
  • Haven, Jesus provided for troubled women
  • Round and round go arguments over track
  • St. Petersburg marathoner on quite a run
  • Bing plays part in win over Louisville, Pitino
  • Tarver captures state senior title

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • An honor for poise despite danger
  • Skeptical crowd warms to complex
  • Foamy bubbles muddle water treatment plans
  • A manatee mystery
  • Police release new sketch of kidnapper
  • Headlines through the years

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Planners want modest MLK parade to grow
  • What's black, gold and white all over?

  • News of Florida
  • State twists spigot of aid to disabled
  • Tax overhaul plan greeted with silence
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