Public services, up close and personal
LARGO -- Digesting plates of homemade meatloaf, mashed potatoes and mixed vegetables prepared by District Chief Frank Pacchiarotti, members of the inaugural class of Largo's citizens academy got their first taste of firefighting.
Healers in greasepaint
CLEARWATER -- Shamrock knocked on the door and asked if Angeline Trizis would like a little company.
Chief: Allow officers to take cars home
CLEARWATER -- Despite a tight budget year that is looming, the Police Department wants to spend $364,950 to begin allowing patrol officers who reside in the city to take home marked police cruisers.
Veteran at MOSI picked for museum
LARGO -- The search for someone capable of leading Pinellas County's esteemed open-air historic museum out of troubled times has ended with a veteran Tampa curator.
Wayward lawyer leaves clients hanging
PALM HARBOR -- Dwain Lorditch paid a lawyer $4,000 to represent him in a slip-and-fall case against the Tampa Bay Lightning, but when Lorditch had a pretrial hearing last week, attorney Jeffrey E. Cosnow was nowhere to be found.
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In Dunedin, questions of control, communication
Dunedin, more village than city, flows along so quietly most of the time that at first it is easy to miss the eddies in the water.
New voting machines on display
Voters can try out Pinellas County's new touch screen voting machines at several locations around the county over the next few months.
