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August 8, 2002
Tampa Bay: August 8, 2002
Ernest Hooper
Blocking backlash; brand new business
Jeb Bush comes to Tampa today as the special guest of the Tampa Bay Black Republican Club luncheon. Woo-hoo.
Hillsborough County news
Inventor of cheap hearing devices acquitted by jury
The jury agrees that the "assistive listening device" is equivalent to nonprescription glasses, not a hearing aid.
Trip to Freedom High ends in teens' arrest
Seven, six of them Wharton High students, are accused of trespassing.
Chillura, mother of ex-commissioner
Josephine "Pepina" Spoto Chillura, the mother of former Hillsborough Commissioner Joe Chillura Jr., died Tuesday (Aug. 6, 2002) at Brighton Gardens. She was 91.
Tampa Bay headlines
GOP: Where are the hotels?
A day of fresh starts
Construction delays mean free parking will linger
Trial of cabdriver in bias case delayed
Video greetings shadow GOP
Letting up on the throttle for the sake of manatees
Pinellas headlines
A branded school sees a bright future
Not much time left to register to vote
Inquiry into contested arrest wrapping up
2nd rabid raccoon appears in county
District 11 candidate closed off by boundary
Oldsmar leaps to buy land on bay
City hires a new personnel director
Muslim, Jew to talk about peace tonight
Letters
You want good government? Then speak up
News of Florida
Prodigal pup's return has family rejoicing
Panel downplays arsenic-treated wood
Governor rolls into Chiefland to lend an ear; residents bend it
Bush endorsements rile primary opponents
Daytona weary of baring carousers
Lawsuit: Death row inmates suffering in hot cells
Women fight law requiring them to publish sexual past
Around the State
Indictments break up prostitution circuit
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