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October 13, 2002
Vanished
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[Times photo: John Pendygraft]
Mysterious calls and a license in the mail baffle a Lutz couple whose grandson disappeared.
Mary Jo Melone
Will resolve stay strong when our soldiers die?
The first thing you notice in Tony Sledd's photograph is his somber look. His dark eyes stare straight ahead out from under the visor of his white hat. There's not even a trace of a smile. In the photograph, he is all business, and his business is all about strength and might.

Top stories
Food, jazz, prizes usher in new Airside E
Thousands turn out to take a sneak peek at Tampa International Airport's new addition.

Attempt to rob mom puts man in prison
LARGO -- A man who held his mother at knifepoint while he forced her to withdraw money from her bank account has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Slain Marine returns home
TAMPA -- As U.S. Airways flight 995 from Pittsburgh touched down Saturday at Tampa International Airport, a Marine Corps color guard stood at attention outside gate F-86.

St. Petersburg's American Heart Walk draws more than 12,000
ST. PETERSBURG -- Ten-month-old Kristina Smith is almost walking. But Saturday morning, her whole family walked for her.

Metro Week in Review
Foster parents head to court


South Pinellas headlines
  • Developer has dream for bayfront
  • Petition leaders to leave Florida
  • Parents hope for a donation of love
  • Officials say ship will come
  • Madeira property in search of developer
  • Officers' discrimination claims get court date
  • Memo says policeman used racial slur, lied
  • Small projects fill a niche, a space
  • Parents: Choice is good plan -- badly executed
  • Board studies glitch in attractor schools
  • Try out some events to get a feel for fall
  • Condos, this time
  • Eagle Scouts from '40s are honored at banquet
  • On the ballot: changes to School Board voting
  • Neighborhood notebook
  • Crisis averted
  • Commissioners, mayor likely to get pay raises
  • Health center to move to new office
  • Priest, builder dies after decades of service
  • Clearwater star makes big impact at FSU
  • Hard work is paying off down the road

  • Letters
  • Building fund for hospice needs your help

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • YWCA, police team up to reach Hispanics
  • Stepping down
  • Rent bias results called 'appalling'
  • Carwise administrator dies at 55
  • Arrest pushes machines' luck
  • Motorcycle crash injures Illinois man

  • Letters
  • With Chuck Hall's death, kids lose hero

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Food bank grows, as does list of the hungry

  • North of Tampa
  • Pricey developments will dot countryside
  • Pints of piety?
  • Mimi's Cafe is coming to town
  • Country Club of Carrollwood to host charity tournament
  • Prep Notebook
  • Educational freebies are yours for the taking
  • Smooth swing
  • Community fights road to bypass Bruce B. Downs
  • Candidates' forum is Thursday in Lutz
  • Swiftmud pumping water into depleted lakes
  • Irrigation system to be upgraded
  • Developers accuse homeowner of harassment
  • Join the Times' Money Panel
  • The Week in Review
  • Open & Shut

  • News of Florida
  • Graham pushes college changes
  • $1.2-million greases path of pig proposal
  • Behind McBride vs. Bush is battle of media consultants
  • McBride lays out environmental agenda
  • Astronauts repair station plumbing
  • Plant workers are exposed to radiation
  • DCF fails to visit more than 3,000 kids
  • Political Junkie: Hopeful wonders where his party is
  • Inside the campaigns
  • Death row case leads to lawsuit
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