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December 5, 2002
Tampa Bay: December 5, 2002
North Pinellas County news
Accident may delay bridge
Is the new Clearwater bridge safe? Engineers study the damage to find out what happened and what the consequences might be.
Humanitarian's name to grace health center
Devoted to public health, Richard Hosking was shot to death 11/2 years ago, but his spirit will live on through the county's sprawling new complex.
Leader points to WorkNet progress
A state official says the county job-training and welfare agency, which has come under fire in recent weeks, is an improvement on the past.
Mother accused of defrauding Medicaid
A wealthy businesswoman is arrested on a ship in Key West and accused of using aid for the indigent to care for her son, who has cerebral palsy.
Oldsmar ponders price of culture
An architect says conversion of the Kumar estate would cost almost $4-million, which includes a performing arts hall. The mayor, for one, doesn't envision that element.
Examiner: Man, 19, probably drowned
Laboriel Felton, the Clearwater man who drove through a traffic checkpoint and led deputies on a chase that ended with his death in a swamp off U.S. 19, apparently drowned.
Stum up to Turkey Trot challenge
Vicki Stum sized up the women's field near the Times Turkey Trot starting line on Thanksgiving morning, but she realized it didn't matter who was in the race.
Motorcyclist pleads not guilty in traffic death
CLEARWATER -- The motorcyclist who collided with a woman as she rode her bicycle across Drew Street, killing her, has pleaded not guilty to a charge that he violated a traffic control device in the collision.
Letters: Racist comments didn't warrant firing
Re: Largo fire lieutenant terminated over racial slurs, story, Nov. 23.
Tampa Bay headlines
Postal procrastinators can expect to pay price
AIDS' spread rapid in South
3 stars, a 4-star general
NAACP, sheriff differ on diversity
Schools grant religious days for Muslims
Superintendent is tops in state
Mary Jo Melone: The 'rights' of the few don't do right by manatees
South Pinellas headlines
Brain tumor claims Methodist pastor
Bite victim may need rabies shots
Hillsborough headlines
Water rates trickle back down
Public access TV, commissioners to negotiate
Dredging may have damaged coral
Military news
Christopher Goffard, Tamara Lush: Reality of justice shocks students
News of Florida
Democrats' leader to ease out
Tuition proposals have many concerned
Search for FSU chief down to 5
Corrections boss steps aside
2 Tampa lawyers resign to avoid discipline action
No planes, no trains, just a kayak
Unwanted, skinheads shift concert location
Around the state
AARP presses Legislature to act to cut prescription drug costs
Cryptic note a bribe offer, official testifies
State seeks right to cut citrus trees
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