Keeping tabs on offenders [Times photo: Jim Damaske] The Sheriff's Office is pushing harder to support state efforts to register sex offenders.

Pinellas County elections office calls for referee
GOP accusations about the office's ballot miscount send the dispute to the State Attorney's Office. And two more lost ballots are found.

They're big, ugly -- and can kill your pet
Pet owners, beware: Giant toxic toads may be in your neighborhood, and a vet says they're nothing to mess with.

Talks build expectations, but little else
Clearwater Beach residents say they've heard grand plans before, but wonder when -- and what -- changes will come.

Friends rally to support 'well-loved man' in need
Blaine LeCouris, a longtime public servant in North Pinellas, says he is overwhelmed by the outpouring to help pay for his family's high medical expenses.

Revised causeway design cuts some costly extras
After the Clearwater bridge's price rose, designers excised lavish landscaping, fancy lights and other touches.

Children's yarn to save penguins
A class of sixth-graders will join a worldwide effort to help the Little Penguins of Phillip Island, Australia.

Largo looks to address its postal identity
As a way to build a sense of community, officials want mailing addresses to correspond with recently approved planning areas.

Too much development and not enough water
Re: Developers set sights on Clearwater Beach, Nov. 12 story.

Is political paralysis catching?
Is political one-upmanship, a la the presidential election, contagious? We may have seen it practiced at Thursday's Clearwater City Commission meeting.

Headlines through the years
Agent: Pinellas fruit untainted by arsenic

Eckerd players pass on men's SSC predictions
Every year coaches and sports information directors get together to predict the finish of the Sunshine State Conference men's basketball teams.

North Pinellas in brief
Italian-American Club hosts dinner-dances

Victim spots suspect boarding bus in Tarpon
Police stop the bus on U.S. 19 and arrest the man in connection with the robbery of the woman.

North Pinellas notebook
Tarpon fire department seeks holiday basket food

Veterans auxiliary unit installs new officers
Beta Beta Chapter elects officers

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