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January 27, 2002
Gasparilla begins with the kids
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[Times photo: Mike Pease]
The festivities open with a candy- and bead-filled parade for the younger crowd.
Mary Jo Melone
Who garners the respect? Drug dealer or resident?
Bertha Peoples' and Kamalo Byrd's paths crossed last Tuesday in her home in St. Petersburg's 13th Street Heights.

Top stories
The $257,000 dance
David B. "Vic" Andrews was convicted of preying on elderly dance club patrons at their most vulnerable moments. Former instructors testified that Andrews, their manager at a dance studio in Port Richey, taught them this technique:

Talk of censure hangs over USF
TAMPA -- The University of South Florida's reputation took a significant hit when professor Sami Al-Arian's alleged ties to terrorists were aired on national television.

Week in review
Satan ban may bedevil town leaders


South Pinellas headlines
  • Siblings and surgeons
  • Council candidates could win by default
  • Flutter builds to design a flag to herald Seminole
  • Sonic plans new store on parcel at Plaza 66
  • Recovery havens or flophouses? City will decide
  • St. Pete High to cut IB program by 20 kids
  • Turf surfers win space in Indian Rocks
  • Redington Beach will seek town clerk, again
  • 'You all need to get your act together'
  • Keep one-way streets, Virginian says
  • What's up on campus
  • When all creatures great and small die
  • DOT sees the light, and VOILA!, problem solved
  • Early risers treated to stirring King tribute
  • St. Petersburg man fatally shot in alley
  • Home of baked goodies relocates
  • Blaze from crash kills motorcyclist
  • Local developer joins Yacht Basin project
  • Neighborhood vote favors revamped Walter Fuller Park
  • Super Bowl sand sculpture at center of rift wins award
  • County may look at a city of Lealman
  • Kids rally for good care
  • Seventh-graders attend college for a day
  • Neighbors say halfway houses are flophouses
  • Caustic or just candid? Depends on perspective
  • Charter school plans to use church site
  • Clearwater Aquatic team captures Winter title
  • New news proves good news for SPC men
  • Junior championships will be held in Florida

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • Public services, up close and personal
  • Healers in greasepaint
  • Chief: Allow officers to take cars home
  • Veteran at MOSI picked for museum
  • Wayward lawyer leaves clients hanging
  • Do your part to help schools
  • In Dunedin, questions of control, communication
  • New voting machines on display

  • Hillsborough headlines

    Hillsborough
  • Police offer of help touches off struggle
  • Man arrested in hit-and-run of 8-year-old

  • North of Tampa
  • Attack rattles neighborhood
  • Acting up for a cause
  • It's not easy being green, it's been said
  • 'Channel A' tag offensive to communities
  • Week in Review
  • 'Car schooling' enhances trips with the kids in tow
  • Chiles team rises in Math Bowl
  • Neighborhood notebook
  • For readers an ocean away
  • With new member, board gets down to business
  • Sound off on condition of roads
  • 'Main street' idea hits a roadblock
  • Negotiation on SuperTarget signs goes sour
  • Open & shut
  • New Publix stores seek alcohol permits
  • Prep notebook
  • Sickles' big target takes aim at goals

  • News of Florida
  • Candidates may keep quiet on death penalty
  • Former state Supreme Court justice, 68, dies
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