Airport ready to launch new set of improvements [Times photo: Bill Serne] St. Petersburg- Clearwater International will spend $45-million to improve its capabilities. City honors firefighters' Ybor battle TAMPA -- Jammie Marsh, a baby-faced woman with freckles and red hair, says she's 20 years old but looks about three years younger. Trustees gave lax financial oversight The "very sophisticated board" that oversees Eckerd College failed to notice the school's dwindling endowment.

Howard Troxler Under the noses of 52 people, $21-million just slips away There is a perfectly good reason the trustees of Eckerd College were not paying attention while most of the school's endowment was being spent. Top stories Girl's drowning leaves a lesson on heaven ST. PETERSBURG -- Linda Bell gathered the preschoolers in a circle on the floor and read aloud a newspaper story about the death of their 3-year-old classmate, Tyesha Ellis.

Shipping executive accused of bribery
Federal prosecutors say Joseph F. Casella paid Perry Harvey Jr. to secure lower labor costs at the Tampa port.

Seminole doctor accused of taking illegal kickbacks
The indictment says he accepted $22,938 from a Clearwater laboratory for referring Medicare patients to the lab.

YMCA reviewing employees' files
ST. PETERSBURG -- The St. Petersburg Family YMCA has begun looking through files on all 120 of its employees to make sure it finds nothing questionable in their backgrounds.

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