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July 30, 2002
Mary Jo Melone
A thirsty region still gulps down development
To reach the Kings Point clubhouse from the parking lot, you have to cross a small footbridge over what appears to be a drainage ditch posing as a creek. The ditch is dry and full of grass.

Top stories
Greco, leaders take Cuba trip
While some say the trip is a harmless fact-finding mission, others are outraged, saying the mayor is supporting a dictator.

Deputies: Man killed woman, self
Authorities say little about the slayings in a Port Richey home. Another person in the house was unharmed.

Missing FCATs test students' composure
If the still-ungraded reading tests taken by 45 Wharton High School students aren't found, they must endure them again.

No more sleepwear in class
Want to wear those snazzy pajamas to school? Think again, say Hillsborough County school officials.

Slugger's medical records sought in feud over note
Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell's lawyers subpoena documents that might reveal Ted Williams' mental and physical state.


South Pinellas headlines
  • Dentist's troubles put state in a bind

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • Smith keeps his career on course
  • Official demoted over promised funds
  • Key city planner to seek new job
  • Sugar fuels women's altercation
  • Mother, daughter testify of ordeal
  • Boy found on pool bottom cheats death

  • Letters
  • Sullivan sat back and did nothing for education

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Sun City phone service spotty
  • Admiration follows ex-official; award's afterglows
  • Church's money bag returned, minus cash
  • Ethics laws violations by official 'probable'
  • Man gets 25 years for taping child porn
  • Dead abductor was sought in rapes

  • News of Florida
  • The science of splat
  • State senate stint would pad pension
  • State wants U.S. to take part of dam
  • State is losing battle with beach erosion
  • Around the State
  • Attorney general candidate fires back at Republican leader
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