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April 10, 2003
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Gate open, they're off!
[Times photo: Bill Serne]
Patrons and cooped-up greyhounds spring into form when Derby Lane reopens after a two-week closure.
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Mary Jo Melone: Lawmakers abandon our old, ill and poor
It's hard to believe that the government could be so casual, so callous.
Top stories
Abductor destined to live life in a cell
The crimes of a bitter ex-worker cannot be written off as an aberration, a judge says in imposing three consecutive life terms.
Memo outlines incentives to ice deal with Lightning
Providing property tax relief and sharing tourism tax funds are proposed as ways to keep the team at the Times Forum.
Iraq: Blood donors fill military need
Tampa Bay residents have responded to requests for blood by donating hundreds more units per week than normal.
Iraq: Law enforcement officers shuffle duties as some serve country
The Pinellas and Hillsborough sheriffs have a total of more than 60 in the military; Tampa, 17; and St. Petersburg, nine officers.
Taking care of their own at VA hospital
The Retired Senior Volunteer Program at Bay Pines is bigger than ever and growing.
Post offices test anthrax detectors
ST. PETERSBURG -- The U.S. Postal Service will use local post offices to test a new safety device that checks for anthrax spores as streams of letters slide along a conveyor bound for their destinations.
Crash kills driver and closes Gandy for hours
TAMPA -- Police don't know where Terri Poole was going at 4 a.m. Wednesday morning. They don't know where she had been that evening.
Highlights of deal proposal
Here are highlights of a proposed "memorandum of agreement" drafted by a consultant for Hillsborough County. The agreement would be between Hillsborough County, the city of Tampa, the Tampa Sports Authority and Palace Sports & Entertainment, which owns the Tampa Bay Lightning and operates the St. Pete Times Forum. Negotiators of the document call it a "starting point" to develop a new deal that would keep the Tampa Bay Lightning in town.
South Pinellas headlines
It's Mayor Maloof
Obituary: American Stage veteran Kathy Foley dies
Obituary: 'Flo' Fussell, descendant of local settlers
North Pinellas headlines
Dunedin business cuts cost of drugs
Fugitive child abuser found in New York
Golf course gets makeover
A brush with death inspires a 1,400-mile hike
Tarpon makes Saturday cleanup day
SWAT team tracks armed man to motel
Masterson works hard to make win look easy
Editorial: Cardboard Cops could help cut out speeding
Letters:
Simply signaling could cure many roundabout ills
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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