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June 10, 2001
They sacrifice to send kids to concert
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[Times photo: Stefanie Boyar]
Carrying low-cost earplugs and high-price tickets, parents bring their kids to hear the Backstreet Boys.
Mary Jo Melone
The last deluded words of a lost soul
William Ernest Henley exists today only as a smallish figure in literature textbooks. He is dwarfed by his friends, still cherished writers from late 19th century Britain like Robert Louis

Top stories
Senior aid group told to trim costs
Neighborly Senior Services workers who help the elderly have been laid off while top administrators enjoy nice perks, a government agency says.

Officer, wife die in hit-run wreck
Colleagues mourn the loss as the driver and passenger of a pickup truck face charges in connection with the accident.

The littlest graduates
Some experts say preschool ceremonies may exploit the children they're supposed to celebrate.

9 escape fire that forces many from apartments
The mother of a young boy says he and two other boys started the fire while playing with a lighter.

Second man charged in slaying
DADE CITY -- Police have arrested the second of two men wanted in a February shooting death outside a Trilacoochee nightclub.

Brawl erupts over money; one man stabbed, one beaten
INDIAN ROCKS BEACH -- One man was stabbed in the shoulder and another beaten in his own front yard Saturday in a fight over money, authorities said.

Metro review
Some highlights of the news from around the region for the week just ended.

Tampa Bay briefs
Man's body found in swimming pool


South Pinellas headlines
  • St. Pete Beach will stick with Fla. Power
  • Another beach city in line for settlement
  • Vowing to remember
  • City, group battle over bathhouse
  • Pinellas Park man wants sign law upheld
  • Council decides to tweak code unit
  • Traffic obstacles litter our streets
  • Fitness center to settle on Fourth St.
  • Shopkeeper dragged 200 feet by thieves taking $24 jeans
  • Student honored with scholarship
  • What qualities should city's new police chief possess?
  • Blessings -- threefold
  • Dirt lot will soon hold CVS drugstore
  • A neighborhood rebounds
  • $10,000 grant to help pay for drug-fighting equipment
  • Demise of auxiliary is a sign of the times
  • Gulfport readies its first police boat
  • Tennis center's fate is in limbo
  • Vandals continue assault on house
  • School zone signs are wretchedly arresting
  • The week ahead
  • A chance to pipe up about that monotube
  • Gibbs yearbooks returned on time
  • Talk about an inside joke, and a public one
  • Dove death study inconclusive
  • Parking reduced to make room for Lowe's storage
  • Yale grad DeSantis is a hit on, off field
  • Classic leaders shooting for second WIBC title
  • Absence of runners helps Rays 5K winner

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • No studies on stadium done lately, officials say
  • Day care for elderly proposed in Dunedin
  • West Bay complete, but work awaits
  • Fears may trip up plan for skate park
  • Long-ago lawman's grave marked
  • Library to mix community, college needs
  • The littlest grads
  • ERs stress faster, friendlier service
  • Headlines through the years
  • Yale grad DeSantis is a hit on, off field

  • Hillsborough headlines

    Ernest Hooper
  • A night out with Patsy Cline and Biketoberfest Man
  • Clout at stake as districts redrawn
  • Picnic showcases community's assets
  • Motorcycle driver dies after crash involving Bucs player

  • News of Florida
  • Spain welcomes freed inmate
  • Cheney: President's goals intact
  • FAMU choices tricky for Bush
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