Tampa Bay: February 16, 2002
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Marrow drives to be held for boy
[Times photo: Scott Keeler]
A 12-year-old with leukemia needs a transplant within weeks, spurring an areawide push for donor registration. |
North Pinellas County news
Candidate's endorsements ring hollow
City departments are blocked from backing candidates. A city commissioner says she was wrong to list two such endorsements.
Paperwork slip might have let fugitive go
Officials in Puerto Rico failed to file papers so Pinellas could hold a man wanted there in a killing. The suspect, held on other charges, wasn't freed.
Boaters criticize limits at sandbar
An emerging sandbar provides fun for people and pets, but officials worry about several species of nesting birds.
Board to replace Safety Harbor Middle
Officials figure they can build a new school for $18-million, about the same as the cost to refurbish the old one.
Killer sentenced to 2 life terms
Cornelius Granville shot two men four times each in a dispute over $10. One victim died. The other lived to testify against him.
Attempt to steal drugs, car from doctor falls short
LARGO -- A man tried to rob a doctor of prescription drugs at a Largo clinic Friday morning.
Ex-County Administrator Lowell Wikoff dies
CLEARWATER -- Lowell C. Wikoff, a former Pinellas County administrator, died Wednesday at the Oaks of Clearwater Nursing Home. He was 81.
Dessert, terrorism, even Enron execs
These things come to the minds of some during Lent, the season of sacrifice, humility and forgiveness.
