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April 26, 2001
A slugger's story
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[Times photo: Thomas Goethe]
Enough relatives to field a few teams show up for the Tampa screening of 61*, an HBO movie about baseball great Roger Maris.
Top stories
Father avoids teen sex trial
The man fathered a child with a teenage girl and later married her. Now he must serve a year of probation.

Scientology critics to get bricks
A group beautifying a Clearwater alley reverses course and will let donors memorialize a church member who died.

Parents can reclaim girl after 7 years
A North Carolina judge's decision brings happiness and shock as a child just starts to get to know her real mother.

Get ready for years of flight delays
Tampa's record is better than most, and new runways may ease the strain there and around the nation eventually.

A phone rings; suddenly, a man lies dead
After a fatal crash, officials say cell phones aren't the only dangerous distraction for drivers.

Tampa Bay briefs
Doctor pleads guilty to making false claims

Local woman's cause leads to shaken baby vigils
The grandmother of a baby who died after being shaken hopes to raise awareness.

Low-cost rides on Suncoast Parkway to end May 6
For nearly three months, drivers have been able to make most local trips on the Suncoast Parkway for free and drive from Hernando County to Hillsborough County for a buck.


South Pinellas headlines
  • Mall specialist turns eye toward Pier
  • Youth summit looks at race
  • Michael Freeman, 81, ex-consultant, dies
  • Skyway bridge needs 'urgent' repair

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • Doctor admits to fraud of insurer
  • DOT to reconsider Drew Street plans
  • North Pinellas briefs
  • Monotube is talk of town
  • Toddler found in pool is revived
  • Visitor, friends ambushed while leaving sports bar
  • RV park denizens face an uprooting
  • Helen Ellis lays off 12 during slowdown
  • Tarpon pulls back on higher water rates
  • Leader says park will stay a park
  • Magnate incarnate tells all at library
  • At crosswalk, familiar figure missed
  • School Board fails to protect wildlife
  • Pinellas Park's image is going down a tube
  • Burgassers log strong Boston Marathon runs

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Airport officer shoots suspect in auto theft
  • Rewards of art rival dot-coms, poet says
  • 'The Love Sponge' changes attorneys
  • Downtown's fate is council's call
  • Nurse's family won't sue

  • News of Florida
  • House bill may stand alone on school prayer
  • Graham warns against university overhaul
  • Arsenic risk baffles Florida officials
  • Around the state
  • Memories of Jamerson warm House chamber
  • Vouchers win a round, face another test
  • Legislature 2001
  • Bush plan on arsenic opposed
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