Happy ending: Wowee comes home [Times photo: Dirk Shadd] A Clearwater ice cream vendor found his traveling companion through Pinellas County Animal Services.

North Pinellas County news
If you're not thirsty, jazz event still free
The Clearwater Jazz Holiday now has a ban on soda, water and beer from home; and a higher price on preferred seating.

Commission ponders downtown's future
In an afternoon work session, city leaders bat around ideas for a large-scale redevelopment plan.

No refuge from rain for homeless meals
Clearwater police cite the coordinator of a meals program for trespassing after he uses a city parking garage during a storm.

McKay Creek flooding can't be stopped
The city decides to abandon plans to alter the creek and will begin to buy out homeowners. Engineers say more than $10-million would not control it.

Council to discuss loan to buy 6 acres
The purchase of the waterfront estate has been on a fast track, but one Oldsmar council member would like more discussion.

Tarpon woman, 43, dies after car crash
Anna Bennett died Sunday night. Friends and family gathered at her home to remember her.

Take this day to honor and learn about blind people
If you were blind or severely visually impaired, would you be able to read the St. Petersburg Times? The answer is yes. (Find out how at the end of this article.) You can live independently, find employment, travel to and from work independently, and enjoy many of the leisure activities that are available to a person with sight. By learning adaptive skills and techniques for daily living, people who are blind or visually impaired are fully integrated and contributing members of our community.

Birk, track remember Roy Larson
With a flashy new paint job and dramatically-timed return to his old No. 10 car, Pinellas Park's Mike Birk Jr. claimed the checkered flag in the Tommy's Radiator Mini Stock Championship at Sunshine Speedway on Oct. 5.

Report affirms excessive force against teen
The Department of Juvenile Justice's inspector general says a youth was run into a door frame at the Pinellas Juvenile Detention Center.

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