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November 13, 2001
Growing pains for Centro Ybor
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[Times photo: Thomas M. Goethe]
This is a story about two retail and entertainment complexes born about the same time at about the same cost.
Mary Jo Melone
A travel day filled with familiar anxieties
I heard about the crash of American Flight 587 from another woman in the gym where I work out. In a voice full of fear, she all but shouted it at me.

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Crash shakes up travel at TIA
TAMPA -- Hands on hips, airline ticket in hand, Karen Conley stood in line Monday at the US Airways counter at Tampa International Airport.

Teaching reading by dividing
In Laura Blauvelt's fifth-grade class at Southern Oak Elementary School, some students read at a first-grade level. Others read like high school seniors.

Tense times color tribute to veterans
SEMINOLE -- An hour and a half into the Veterans Day ceremony at the VA Medical Center at Bay Pines on Monday, director Thomas H. Weaver cut in to announce the crash of an airplane in New York.

Ministry's food drive counts on kindness of strangers
TAMPA -- The numbers are daunting: 650,000 pounds of food, 55,000 toys, 8,600 turkeys and $3.08-million in cash.

Nose gear trouble forces TIA landing
A US Airways flight from Philadelphia made an emergency landing at Tampa International Airport on Monday after the crew reported difficulty lowering and locking the nose gear.


South Pinellas headlines
  • Gas leak prompts shutdown of school campus
  • Police: Drugs led to man's shooting

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • Tragedies color tribute to veterans
  • Suspend funeral director, board says
  • Police search for pigeon thieves
  • Number of polling places might drop
  • Historic building scheduled for repairs
  • Waterfront property should be preserved
  • New library cookbook is a hot concoction

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Father defies flames to save his 3 children

  • News of Florida
  • Session focuses on dearth of nurses
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