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May 29, 2002

Tampa Bay: May 29, 2002 Ernest Hooper
Worthy benefit; easing housekeeping's burden
It's not too often the competing local papers write about each other, and lately I've been finding fault with the Tampa Tribune stories that have mentioned the Times.

Hillsborough County news
Five held on charges of cocaine smuggling
TAMPA -- Five more men have been arrested on charges of trying to smuggle cocaine on a speed boat through the Caribbean Sea.

Landlord faces fine of $750 per day
The fence around Amberwood Apartments, which are vacant, has failed to keep vagrants out, officials say.


Tampa Bay headlines
  • Voters' will swept aside for officials' 'principle'
  • A slingshot stop
  • Salary plan puts teachers first
  • In business and life, speculator full of contrasts
  • Fast track exemption for homes days away
  • Kite surfers find man's body in gulf
  • Man sentenced to die in deaths of stepchildren

  • Pinellas headlines
  • Mayor's budget would cut 109 jobs
  • Officer out to prevent crime
  • Lessons learned, fish farmers savor results
  • Timely tribute tells saga of civil rights era
  • New signs to gussy up Pinellas Park's limits
  • Police hand pastor's case to state attorney
  • Military news
  • Supporters make sure musical makes the rent

  • Letters
  • Complaints about downtown parking get old
  • City, USF discuss sharing Bayfront
  • Girl finds stranger in the house
  • Best of the Best
  • Working: Bill Bowman, Floral designer
  • 170 homes to be built ininellas Park
  • Security zone may be extended
  • Fryer at Red's Snak Shak ready to get busy again
  • McMullen captures berth in national tourney
  • USA cyclists get in road work for time trial
  • Sacino's closing BayWalk location
  • Theft of identity gets man prison
  • Public will soon talk first, not last
  • Pupils gather flags from veterans' graves
  • His rehab routine: Exercise, fatten up
  • Odyssey kids take on world

  • Letters
  • Missing child, quick response

  • News of Florida
  • Rainy day fund troubles governor
  • Tap is turned on natural gas pipeline
  • Governor vows to reform DCF
  • New laws give nurses a boost
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