Marketing to the faithful [Times photo: Mike Pease] With clown suits and rock bands, donuts and flavored coffee, churches are finding ways to draw more members.

My apple pie is another's indigestion
CARROLLWOOD -- Laurie Wolf had five minutes to talk. She was rushing to a Brownie troop meeting. You could hear her daughters in the background.

Out & about
TWO WHEELING IN NEW TAMPA: Yes, traffic is lousy on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard and getting worse, but it's gotten a lot better for travelers willing to get out of their cars.

North Tampa teams are better than their records make it seem
Sickles really is much better than it was in 1999. But it's hard to convince someone of that when, just as in 1999, the Gryphons still haven't won a game.

Development meeting reset
The Hillsborough County Commission has postponed a discussion about creating special development guidelines for New Tampa to keep the area's appearance consistent.

Lack of money, trustees delays private high school idea
Establishing an elite college preparatory high school is put on hold as backers search for funds, board members and land on which to build.

Picture perfect
The Sickles High yearbook staff has a hard act to follow, coming after last year's award-winning book. Their idea of what to do when you first succeed: try, try again.

Citrus Park teenager receives two college scholarships
McKinley Glover IV, son of McKinley and Jessie Glover of Fawn Ridge, has been awarded a Missy and John Kuykendall Scholarship and a Presidential Award Scholarship by Davidson College in Davidson, N.C., where he is a freshman.

Board unsure whether to end lawsuit
A judge rules against the Tampa Palms Community Development board in an open meetings lawsuit, and board members must decide whether to appeal.

Meeting delay slights residents, leaders say
The county cancels a meeting with New Tampa residents, rescheduling it after the November election. The staff says the decision is not political.

Two armed men hold up Walgreens
The men round up three employees and one customer and then confront the manager with a gun. They fled with about $4,500.