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February 13, 2003
Mary Jo Melone: Even as he campaigns, Miranda looks back
The photographer directed Charlie Miranda to a stool and asked him to look at the camera. Miranda smiled and the camera clicked. A second later, the photographer, from the Tampa Tribune, asked Miranda to shift his position on the stool. Another click. Another picture. There was no preening, no adjusting his suit coat. Miranda wouldn't do that. He is much too comfortable with who he is.

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Tape, tarp: 'Whose idea was this?'
Experts say plastic and duct tape would not do much, if any, good in protecting from a chemical or biological attack.

Budget omits 4th year of SPC
A budget error affecting a new bachelor's degree program will be fixed, Bush's spokeswoman says.

'Black Widow' is freed 28 years after murder
With her son, the woman plotted the killing of her husband, a Tampa department store mogul. The parole panel says she is rehabilitated.

Woman dies in crash on bridge
A man was also injured in the accident that snarled traffic on the Howard Frankland.

Examiner rules official's suicide was by stabbing
Pinellas Park City Manager Jerry Mudd left a note expressing his despondency over work pressures and his health.


South Pinellas headlines
  • Time is against missing teen
  • Man climbs exit sign in interstate median

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • Neighbor guilty of murder, gets life
  • After long wait, skate park vote is near
  • Police officer injured in wreck
  • Signals of peace in county, city 'turf' war
  • Heart defects at core of campaign
  • Developer planning high-end homes
  • Wheels in motion to put ads on trolley
  • Naples draws athletes from across globe
  • Editorial: Renaming a street offers us lessons
  • Letters: Harborview Center worth the subsidies

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Base cab fare to rise 50 cents
  • Students learn black soldiers' role in history
  • Malpractice reform sought
  • 'Poll' presents 2 candidates for mayor in negative light
  • Candidates confront face of homelessness
  • Incumbent faces activist in District 2
  • City official takes early retirement

  • News of Florida
  • Shuttle Disaster: Shuttle arrives as pieces of a puzzle
  • Paintings fall back into safe hands
  • Byrd drops telemarketing plan
  • University leaders fault Bush's proposed cuts
  • 3-week vote will call Florida's tails
  • Man acquitted of kidnapping young killer
  • 24-million Floridians and counting by 2030
  • Around the state: Constitution too easily changed, 2 lawmakers say
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