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February 7, 2002
WEEKEND
A spin through the fair
So you don't get lost on the midway, here's a guide to all that's happening at this year's Florida State Fair. Story
Mary Jo Melone
Hesitating to take one small step to fairness
It makes no sense that Tampa's Metropolitan Ministries found it so painful to open its board of directors to non-Christians.

Top stories
Handling of rape cases is upheld
An inquiry clears a Pasco detective who refused to believe a woman who said she had been raped twice.

Finest fish at the fair
The colorful artificial and living elements of aquariums are judged as the 98th annual Florida State Fair gets rolling.

Professors' group enters Al-Arian fray
The American Association of University Professors could censure USF, giving the school a bad name among academics groups.

Damaged bridge reopens today
But workers still have some things to do, and some of it will take awhile, DOT officials say.

Bin Laden was his hero, but who was his friend?
In a letter, the pilot claims sympathy for terrorists. Authorities and his family say he was a confused, lonely boy.

Tampa Bay briefs
Pinellas Park woman, 25, dies when car overturns

Billboard campaign shouts against arsenic-treated wood
Rep. Larry Crow takes a high-profile tack against the wood-treatment industry after lobbyists kill his bill.

Wife: Image of manhood vanished at home
Linda Kantaras says her transgender husband's outlook and behavior was a poor example for her children.


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North Pinellas headlines
  • Oldsmar may get optical plant
  • Clearwater High coach to retire
  • Child abuse, neglect persist in county
  • Largo nixes tax split of Walgreens property
  • Fired, then rehired, clerk feels vindicated
  • Pinellas digest
  • Tarpon loosens its belt around funds
  • Parents, vote for your kids' sake
  • Dunedin candidates respond
  • Former world-ranked player Leo directs Countryside club

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Indigent care to get new oversight

  • News of Florida
  • Enron CEO, subsidiaries got access to Bush
  • 15 acres cleaned up, 66,985 contaminated
  • Judges' e-mail privacy at issue
  • Bush proposes $470-million in new programs
  • Expert says boot marks 'could be' defendant's
  • McKay calls Bush's tax stance 'mind-boggling'
  • Land buying funds could get diverted
  • Legislature in brief
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