Search continues -- high and low [Times photo: Boyzell Hosey] Zachary Bernhardt still is missing, but officers say other parents have no undue reason to fear for their children's safety.

Howard Troxler
The court supreme demeans the voters
Last week, the Florida Supreme Court threw out part of our state Constitution. The court said the voters might have been confused when they passed that part.

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More TIA walls may soon hold ads
TAMPA -- First there was Tropicana Field. Then Raymond James Stadium. Is it possible we could someday have the "Tampa Home Shopping Network International Airport?"

Impasse might end Bayfront's alliance
The hospital plans to take a proposal directly to the St. Petersburg City Council in an effort to resolve their dispute.

Puny wet season leaves wells low
Back in deep drought and heading into dry season, area water restrictions could become even more severe, Swiftmud warns.

Medicare recipients ask about life after HMOs
At a Brooksville meeting, the answers are troubling -- when they're comprehensible.

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Judge dismisses murder charge

Court's guardian to aid millionaire
A grandson went to court after the 92-year-old man married a woman 42 years his junior and she spent hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Doctor was fighting ruling
TARPON SPRINGS -- At the time of his death Wednesday, former Tampa psychiatrist Louis J. Tsavaris was not only talking about clearing his name, he was pursuing it in court.

5 in bay area sue over Firestone tires
CLEARWATER -- Five Tampa Bay area residents are suing the makers of Firestone tires and Ford Motor Co., asking for an expanded recall of tires and for payments to those who have defective tires not covered in the nationwide recall.

Murder charge is dismissed
TAMPA -- Citing a lack of evidence, a judge has dismissed the first-degree murder charge against 26-year-old Earl Bernard Mason.

Killer was sane, second jury finds
His 1996 conviction reversed on appeal, the man is convicted again in the fatal stabbing of a friend's ex-wife.

Pinellas launches first large-scale gun buyback
Last year, John Kerutis of St. Petersburg had to drive all the way to Tampa to get rid of his guns. Four counties around Tampa Bay collected nearly 2,000 unwanted guns in a buyback program, but Pinellas wasn't one of them.

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