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December 13, 2002
Howard Troxler: Four in 10 speak with conviction: No war
About 55 percent of Americans support a ground invasion of Iraq, according to a current poll. Only 39 percent oppose one.

[Times photo: Kinfay Moroti]
Waiting in line to make their choice known.
Top stories
Today is deadline to choose a school in Pinellas
More than 86,000 of the county's students have finished the process. How many still haven't? Officials aren't sure.

USF's Genshaft to get lucrative five-year deal
As the university president celebrates signing the popular football coach, she's negotiating her own long-term contract that guarantees her $1.5-million plus perks.

Republican Convention: GOP scrutinizes bid by New York
Tampa is still a player for the 2004 convention. A decision is expected by year's end.
You just have to spell it out for some people
TAMPA -- Republicans know, don't they, what GOP really means: Grand Old Party, the Republican Party's 125-year-old nickname.

Hopes grow as big as odds are small
The Lotto jackpot rolls over again to a nice, round number: $100-million. It's the second-highest ever in Florida.

Chicken coup: One big 'whoosh' and they're gone
With a cluck, cluck here and a cluck, cluck there, a trapper's mighty net rounds up 24. The birds have something to crow about: dozens more escaped.

Restraining order on reporter stands
A judge retains a temporary ban involving TV coverage of a man's DUI arrests.

Judge to decide next step for Al-Arian
She will decide when the court should rule on the constitutionality of firing him.

Military news
Karen A. Williams has graduated from the Army ROTC Leader's Training Course at Fort Knox, Ky.

Ernest Hooper: An ancient battle and wandering reporters
I can't claim to be a big Discovery Channel fan. But the chance for a college professor to reveal his research on the cable network has to be tantamount to a coach being allowed to showcase his team on ESPN.


South Pinellas headlines
  • Chief seeks to slow officer retirements

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • Mystery men use lift to fix sailboat
  • Old bus pits shabby-chic vs. plain shabby
  • Want to sound off on future of Largo?
  • Pictures found, deputy charged
  • Plaza plans to primp, pave for new Publix
  • Police add details of man in 2 burglaries
  • County squads look to get back on roll at state
  • Holiday revelry by land and by sea
  • Editorial: Mall could help make wildlife corridor happen

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Tampa to revamp no-wake zones
  • Ernest Hooper: An ancient battle and wandering reporters

  • City Times (south Tampa)
  • Hope burns eternal
  • Need increases yet donations fall
  • 'A place where we can be happy'
  • Lighting up the night
  • Born to create
  • Thanks to him, many seniors are bowling
  • Politician paved way for Latins to come
  • The musical that roared
  • Old diner needs new lease on life
  • Restaurant at Knight airport shuts doors
  • Shadow warrior
  • Neighborhood notebook
  • Market, restaurant to liven up MacDill
  • Nocturnal 'Pizza Man' gets a taste of closure
  • A home designed for cooking
  • Thriving city life is the goal
  • Home accessories serve up pictures of Zimbabwe

  • North of Tampa
  • Coaches, players who hung together
  • At a standstill in suburbia
  • Lake warning: Please don't eat the mussels
  • Wildcat support: Intense, subtle
  • With care, these plants can thrive in the Florida soil
  • Mud tires are a good gift for mountain bikers
  • Get this, sports fans
  • Two lawyers elected to community board
  • Plan would swap mall land for nature park
  • Party if by land, throw beads if by sea
  • Teens will spend Sunday buying for Children's Home
  • Officials shelve plan to extend water, sewer lines
  • Need an acid drop? This new park's up your alley

  • News of Florida
  • To save a boy, he gave his life
  • Amendment is final straw for pig farmer
  • Plan would ease seniors' access to drug savings
  • Former FBI agent's rights are restored
  • Nursing home lawsuit may proceed
  • Crist names key staffers in new office
  • Democratic Party chairman Poe to resign
  • Report: Cruise ship illness tripled
  • Crack found in plumbing of shuttle
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