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December 5, 2002
Mary Jo Melone: The 'rights' of the few don't do right by manatees
Go figure this one: We give pigs constitutional protections in Florida, but when it comes to the manatee, we start talking like we're about to be overrun by Bolsheviks.

Top stories
Postal procrastinators can expect to pay price
Clerks will process 20-billion pieces of mail this holiday season, from gourds to golf clubs.

AIDS' spread rapid in South
Parts of the region are "beginning to mirror the Third World," a researcher says.

3 stars, a 4-star general
The actors join brass and troops for a screening of 'Analyze That' at MacDill Air Force Base.

NAACP, sheriff differ on diversity
Critics say the sheriff has not done enough to promote blacks into higher ranks.

Schools grant religious days for Muslims
TAMPA -- Just in time for the end of the Muslim observance of Ramadan, Hillsborough school officials have decided they no longer will penalize high school students who take time off to observe a religious holiday.

Superintendent is tops in state
TAMPA -- Hillsborough school superintendent Earl Lennard has been named Florida's superintendent of the year.


South Pinellas headlines
  • Brain tumor claims Methodist pastor
  • Bite victim may need rabies shots

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • Accident may delay bridge
  • Humanitarian's name to grace health center
  • For players, baseball crosses barriers
  • Leader points to WorkNet progress
  • Mother accused of defrauding Medicaid
  • Oldsmar ponders price of culture
  • Examiner: Man, 19, probably drowned
  • Stum up to Turkey Trot challenge
  • Motorcyclist pleads not guilty in traffic death
  • Letters: Racist comments didn't warrant firing

  • 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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