Anything Guava goes [Times photo: Kristen Scmid] TAMPA -- On any Saturday in Ybor City, women wear platform boots, sequined halter tops and leather miniskirts for a stroll down the street. On Guavaween in Ybor, men with hairy backs squeeze into backless pink dresses for a night guzzling beer.

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Community finally rises from ashes of tragedy
The supermarket in Palm River Plaza has been closed for more than 16 years, but people in Clair Mel still know it by name.

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Teachers provide a civics lesson
The Times looks at three schools in three counties to see if teachers exercised their right to vote in the September primary.

Only a few tackle the trying times
Just five families in Hillsborough accept foster care teens. Bob and Linda Briggs have been among the most reliable, opening their home to 525 teenage girls over the past 13 years.

Largo police Explorer scandal inquiry ends with no charges
LARGO -- Despite finding what they believe was criminal misconduct by a former Largo police officer, state prosecutors have decided not to pursue charges against anyone involved in the youth Explorer post scandal.

Two leave hospital after Friday wreck
One man remains in fair condition after the collision, which killed one car's teenage driver.

Man guilty in robbery and slaying of widow
TAMPA -- A jury took 90 minutes Friday afternoon to convict Anthony Carcione of federal charges of conspiracy to use interstate commerce to rob and murder Jean Schwarzkopf, a 78-year-old widow whose beaten body was found stuffed in the closet of her New Port Richey home in September 1997.

Friends commemorate Citrus High teen killed on Halloween
A memorial is planned for a student killed in a hit-and-run accident while trick-or-treating last year.

Week in review
Halloween roundup of pedophiles is canceled

Wife: Lavish spending out of love
The woman says she spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for her 92-year-old husband and with his approval.

Worker forced out over political ad
The manager of Weedon Island Preserve resigned under pressure Friday after county officials said he violated a rule prohibiting employees from participating in political campaigns on county time.

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