Tampa Bay: February 8, 2002
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Specialty store caters to more than krewes
[Times photo: Scott Keeler]
LARGO -- Skulls with red flashing eyes, parrots, mermaids, pirates, beer mugs, marijuana leaves, porcelain masked faces, frogs, American and British flags, hearts and flowers. |
North Pinellas County news
Trail of blood leads police to door of mobile home
CLEARWATER -- The body on the ground brought detectives to the mobile home park. The drops of blood led them to the home. More blood by the door handle led them to knock.
Police will take home cruisers
Police officers who live in Clearwater will be able to take home their marked cruisers and park them in their driveways.
City agrees to trade land with developers
CLEARWATER -- City Commissioners agreed Thursday to swap land with the businessmen who are redeveloping Clearwater Mall into a new discount-oriented shopping center with a major anchor such as Target or Wal-Mart.
Pinellas digest
What, have coffee with police Chief Aradi
Artists' popularity, prices soar
The Highwaymen artists used to sell their Florida landscapes along roadsides. Now buyers come to them.
Airpark tightens its security
Plans include cameras, more sophisticated gate controls and more extensive information files on pilots.
Tarpon pledges money for film
TARPON SPRINGS -- Faced with the possibility of losing a lucrative grant for a PBS documentary about Tarpon Springs, the city has vowed to come up with the additional $50,000 needed for the project.
Jail school would deal a body blow to High Point
I am in utter shock that schools Superintendent Howard Hinesley and the Pinellas County School Board, along with Sheriff Everett Rice, are pushing for their new juvenile justice high school to be placed right next door to High Point Elementary School.
School bus driver accused of abuse
CLEARWATER -- A Pinellas school bus driver was arrested Wednesday on charges that he grabbed a 10-year-old student as she exited his bus, then tried to intimidate the girl into not telling anyone about it.
Learn about the law in free classes
CLEARWATER -- The annual People's Law School series, sponsored by the Clearwater Bar Association, continues through May 23.
Miller bowls over her competition
Clearwater's Renee Miller is averaging 223 in three leagues at Liberty Lanes.
Happenings
Mardi Paws
If Sol could see this
The Sol Peska Film Festival, named after a seemingly penniless library patron who bequeathed $800,000, gets underway with highly regarded films and a teen night.
