Prime land divvied up for homes and church
After years of family disagreements, the Messinger homestead in Safety Harbor is sold for development.
After tests, cleanup debate may reopen
Some, including Stauffer Chemical officials, still favor the mound-and-cap plan. But those who want the waste hauled away hope the EPA's pause for testing means change is afoot.
Athlete gives buffalo new place to roam
Philadelphia 76ers center Matt Geiger rescued the animals and brought them to his home. One from the herd was too sick to be saved.
Long-ago mystery solved
A longtime visitor to Clearwater Beach helped saved a drowning man in 1962. The hero remained nameless. Until now.
Park's lawsuit silences Harley's roar
A mobile home cooperative's rules don't allow any motorcycles. But one of its residents couldn't resist riding his. Now he's being sued.
Longtime visitor remembers rescue
"We were no heroes," Harvey Leininger says of his lifesaving act decades ago on Clearwater Beach. "We just try to help people."
Term limits bring home the race for cash
Politicians who lost their positions in Tallahassee to term limits are injecting funds from lobbyists and PACs into their campaigns for local offices.
Fear, mistrust kill plan to rebuild downtown
The polling places are darkened. The signs that said "Vote Yes" or "Save the Bayfront" are slowly disappearing from Clearwater streets.
Don't let referendum polarize city
Editor's note: Today's letters were received after Clearwater voters turned down a proposal for a major downtown redevelopment project in a referendum Tuesday.
Headlines through the years
A look back at the events, people and places that made North Pinellas the unique place that it is. The information is compiled from past editions of the St. Petersburg Times.
Suncoast youths win five championships
Competitors from the Suncoast Young American Bowling Alliance associations walked off with five titles in the Florida State Tournament last month at centers in Bradenton and Venice.
Former Warhawk works to return to Blue Jays
A former Seminole High baseball player currently with the Triple-A Syracuse SkyChiefs is trying to pitch his way back up to the parent Toronto Blue Jays.
Play intertwines comedy, mystery
TARPON SPRINGS -- The Avenue Players Theatre is scheduled to present a staged reading of The Man Who Came to Murder, a new comedy/mystery play by Lee Sheldon, a television writer and producer who moved to the area last year.
Teacher honored
Linda J. Wallenhorst, a teacherat Carwise Middle School, received a plaque for the honor of Teacher of the Year for the Pinellas County School District. She has been teaching gifted students at Carwise Middle School since 1994, and previously taught at Largo Middle School. In 1989, as an exchange teacher, she taught English to junior high school students in Nagano, Japan.
Tampa Bay headlines
A life of secrets ends in the shadows
Return to Titanic
South Pinellas headlines
'A message of hope'
Monica's fate rests in judge's hands
Hot wheels gone in 60 seconds?
Board to look at building codes
Officers say they are on 'hit list'
Residents recount poor treatment to council
Code Department, mayor take beating
Officers must protect, not endanger
U.S. Geological Survey expanding
Waccamaw HomePlace to open at Gateway
Goodbuy becomes Buy Good
Olympic committee sizes up city's port
Voters must choose a new Fire Board
Traffic signal planned for Pinebrook
Look out, 'Survivor': Here comes 'The Mall'
Lean paycheck, hefty power bill? Help is at hand
Redington faces higher taxes, waste removal rates
Redington Beach plans to keep tax rate steady
Residents sue city in bid to stop resort plan
Raising house makes move hard
Pondering the logic of some road projects
Program gives moms a break
Eight athletes to put best feet forward in nationals
Calf needs owners with huge heart, yard
Rain delays kickoff of adult tennis league
Hillsborough headlines
Reclaimed water deal draws few big users
Police get tough on lap dancing
Officials investigating cause of high school fire
News of Florida
Nelson rides crusader image on Senate trail
New law could backfire on debtors
Flawed figures leave toll roads running flat
Foley knows woes of ID theft firsthand
