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April 10, 2003

Tampa Bay: April 10, 2003
A brush with death inspires a 1,400-mile hike
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[Times photo: Carrie Pratt]
Given five years to live, a woman beat hepatitis C. Now with life stretching ahead of her, she vows to walk to New Jersey.
North Pinellas County news
Dunedin business cuts cost of drugs
It orders medications from Canadian pharmacies that can offer lower prices and send the drugs to customers' homes.

Fugitive child abuser found in New York
After two years on the run, Joseph Ransey, who skipped his sentencing, is brought back to Florida and jailed.

Golf course gets makeover
The $2.7-million project aims to bring back the classic look of the Belleair Country Club's course envisioned by acclaimed architect Donald Ross.

Tarpon makes Saturday cleanup day
If you're doing your spring cleaning and have an old carpet, couch or washing machine that has to go, just get it to the curb by 7 a.m.

SWAT team tracks armed man to motel
He refuses to communicate with police, who later find him dead in a Clearwater Palms Motel room.

Masterson works hard to make win look easy
You would think an opening mile of 4 minutes, 58 seconds with a 100-meter lead would convince a front runner that he could coast home in a 5K road race.

Editorial: Cardboard Cops could help cut out speeding
It is no secret that Largo police Chief Lester Aradi loves personal contact with residents -- one journalist described him as "relentlessly friendly" -- and that he insists his officers also reach out to people in the community.

Letters: Simply signaling could cure many roundabout ills
Re: Drivers, not roads, cause accidents, letter, March 18.


Tampa Bay headlines
  • Abductor destined to live life in a cell
  • Gate open, they're off!
  • Memo outlines incentives to ice deal with Lightning
  • Iraq: Blood donors fill military need
  • Iraq: Law enforcement officers shuffle duties as some serve country
  • Taking care of their own at VA hospital
  • Post offices test anthrax detectors
  • Crash kills driver and closes Gandy for hours
  • Highlights of deal proposal
  • Mary Jo Melone: Lawmakers abandon our old, ill and poor

  • South Pinellas headlines
  • It's Mayor Maloof
  • Obituary: American Stage veteran Kathy Foley dies
  • Obituary: 'Flo' Fussell, descendant of local settlers

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Hyde Park scores against tower
  • Iorio aide will promote east Tampa
  • Battered spouse defense blocked
  • Christopher Goffard & Tamara Lush: Crime victim's widow given restored Olds
  • Ernest Hooper: Growth in East Tampa; slow times for charities

  • News of Florida
  • Iraq: Graham stands by antiwar position
  • Legislature: Basic telephone rates may increase sharply
  • Legislature: Capitol threatens area's water peace
  • Four cops convicted in Miami
  • Childers convicted of bribery
  • Legislature: Deliberations on judges will remain closed
  • Bush: Keep crime lab funding up
  • Around the state: Early head count gives Foley lead over McCollum
  • Budget veto brewing over school funds
  • Lawmakers move to delay cleanup deadline
  • Legislature: Malpractice reforms head to the Senate
  • Legislature: A most special session
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