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September 3, 2000

Mary Jo Melone
Summers' song from years ago plays on
At dawn and at dusk, when the people are few, and their voices are low -- that's when you hear beach music. The gulf slides onto the wet shore, in and out and in again. For a moment you comprehend the infinite. Gulls and sandpipers skitter, go shrill. The wind rustles the trees like a row of slips clipped to a clothesline.

Top stories
Coe's friends saw no suicide warning
Though under scrutiny, the Hillsborough state attorney showed little distress in the days before his death. But a friend planned to advise him to resign.

Week in review
EPA halts cleanup plan for toxic site

Democrats turn testy in Senate debate
The tension showed in the edge in their voices. The sighs and rolling eyes.

Such a deal
How a developer traded on local contacts to put a glitzy new mall at the edge of the airport. But at what cost to the public?

Wreck injures 5, blocks interstate
WESLEY CHAPEL -- An early afternoon, three-car accident on Interstate 75 in Pasco County injured five people and temporarily halted holiday weekend traffic Saturday.

Tampa Bay briefs
Body found in ditch; homicide suspected


South Pinellas headlines
  • Memories of shark attack in '22 linger
  • Officials advised to adjust city hall deal
  • Interim chief says the healing starts now
  • Minor league baseball will be missed
  • Authorities search lake for weapon used in rape
  • Leadership St. Petersburg accepting applications
  • Seven parking lots added at Coliseum Ballroom
  • Day care center adds space for 1-year-olds
  • Restraining order given in preacher vs. pianist case
  • Lights fail to signal warning to motorists
  • Chronic offenders may pay a steeper price
  • Media magnet school is short on students
  • New survey to be sent on beach street closings
  • Agencies detail new adult's rights
  • City moves to get mailboxes off curb
  • Thousands tackle another season
  • Preparation leaves centers little time to spare
  • Kothe taking a different course

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • District envelops mishmash of voters
  • Where his addiction led, he followed
  • Persistence key in halting plant cleanup
  • Creek riddle: Preserve it or control it?
  • East Lake soccer star called one of the best
  • At SPJC, doctors will be in house
  • Commissioners fail Pinellas residents
  • Helen Ellis' future brightens
  • Questions
  • Pinellas programs kick off season
  • Headlines through the years
  • Cheerleaders get a taste of success at camp
  • Beach cleanup can uncover treasure

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • County looks into park for pooches
  • Special interest warning issued amid the funding

  • News of Florida
  • Test's results fluster teachers
  • Art gecko
  • State briefs
  • College program has little impact
  • Age, experience at forefront of 12th District race
  • Success hinges on classroom, not admissions office
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