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June 6, 2001
Bush helps build home, support for program
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TAMPA -- Every time 14-year-old Elena Chandler looks around her sister's new home, she's going to think of the president.

Bush protesters say rights were muzzled
But the Legends Field rally was private, a Secret Service spokesman said, so the hosts were free to bar whom they chose.

Howard Troxler
Protests not seen or heard: How polite
The first political sign that Sonja Haught of Clearwater intended to bring to greet the president on Monday at Legends Field in Tampa was 6 feet long. It was dotted with oil derricks and bore the slogan: "George W. Bush National Forest."

Top stories
Trop makes slow work of adjusting for disabled
As an inspection nears, the city appropriates $45,000 to correct violations that were pointed out last year.

Family's day of fun ends in death of two children
The highway patrol says a truck ran a red light, killing two children returning home from a day at Busch Gardens.

Stetson to open night law school at a Tampa site
The university expects about 50 students in 2002, building eventually to about 200.

Bright prospects await PTEC grads
Dien Tran has already won the national welding championship. He's taken the $40,000 first prize. He's out-welded other national champions.

Last chance to guarantee track enrollment
Today is the last day to enroll in Pinellas County schools for students who want to be guaranteed a certain elementary, middle and high school track under the new "choice" system that begins in 2003.

Sense of accomplishment, excitement of graduation
The 15 graduates of Paul B. Stephens Jr. Student Center receive their diplomas and a lot of praise.

Wrecks on slick I-75 involve 13 vehicles
VENICE -- A 13-vehicle series of accidents on Interstate 75 Tuesday afternoon injured as many as six people and shut down part of the highway for hours.


South Pinellas headlines
  • City to pay for travel to Japan
  • Close call
  • Officials apologize following argument
  • Postal site ranks high in rebirth of Midtown
  • Tennis Center, neighbors can prosper
  • Pickup truck hits car head-on, injuring 2
  • Package deal: auto shop and post office
  • Uncharted (frozen) waters
  • Sailing through their disabilities
  • Aggressive or cute, the point is made
  • Achievers
  • Best of the best
  • Find a dead dove? Agency will take it
  • Three schools team up, practice crisis readiness
  • Quirks dot the past of 'sleepy' St. Petersburg
  • Maverick swimmer sets marks nationally
  • Staying a top school is tricky
  • Midtown's postal quest addressed
  • Hospital volunteers wave a half-century of hellos
  • Officials envision new city projects
  • Lealman fire district faces rise in costs
  • Neighborhood briefs
  • Treasure Island women's squad breaks even in Naples
  • Lakewood team captures third in national event
  • Teenage amateurs Tryon, Takacs capture attention

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • Girl's shooting appears accidental
  • Blueprint for changes on beach approved
  • Hospitals sued over ambulance charges
  • For horseshoe junkie, finally the Hall of Fame
  • Judge: Girl cannot attend graduation
  • Hospitals may settle debts with Pinellas
  • Vehicle is linked to fatal hit-run
  • Horseshoe legend enters Hall of Fame
  • Linchpin in Tarpon revival plan okayed
  • Students to have hand in arts center design
  • Parents sue babysitter convicted of boy's death
  • Caring parents make kids behave
  • Don't let Beach by Design drown in a sea of lawsuits
  • Lakewood team is 3rd in nation
  • Parents sue babysitter convicted of boy's death

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Concerns grow over private hydrants
  • Plant fix forces cut in water supply
  • Hearing set on voting districts
  • Administrator backs lower property tax rate
  • Teenagers struggle to find jobs

  • Ernest Hooper
  • A Bern's meal for Bush and a recount on the tip

  • News of Florida
  • Gays fight to overturn law prohibiting adoption
  • Wrecks on slick I-75 involve 13 vehicles
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