Touching encounter [Times photo: Bill Serne] Shakia Williams, 18, gets ready Wednesday to pet Mini, a quarter hourse at the Muscular Dystrophy Association Summer Camp 2001 held this week at the Rotary's Camp Florida in Brandon.

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Two arrested in robberies
The men are suspected in a series of daylight raids on five businesses in Pinellas.

Weeki Wachee deal has deadline
ST. PETERSBURG -- The $14.4-million to pay St. Petersburg for its Weeki Wachee Spring property is sitting in a state bank account -- but will essentially disappear if the City Council doesn't decide to take the deal in one week.

Leap into bay can't save driver
Without hesitation, a lifeguard, 17, jumps off the Howard Frankland Bridge. But when he checks the motorist's pulse, he finds none.

School names to honor fight for civil rights
But unless the School Board waives a decades-old policy, a proposal to name a school for Doug Jamerson will stall.

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