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November 21, 2000

Building a winner the Garcia way
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[Times photo: Jim Damaske]
TAMPA -- Hillsborough High's football juggernaut rolls as head coach Earl Garcia pushes it: relentlessly, every day of the year.
Mary Jo Melone
Baby Sam: A story of rights, but whose?
In Tallahassee, armies of lawyers spill thousands of words before a bank of somber Supreme Court justices over the fate of millions of bits of paper called chad.

Top stories
Mystery of the Maine
USF researchers have found the wreckage of the Maine and a possible answer to one of history's questions: Did Spain explode the Maine in 1898?

Droves taking to planes, trains, automobiles
Although your family has been begging you to bring the homemade peach cobbler for Thanksgiving dinner, it could be quite awkward holding it on your lap. The airlines won't allow it. Train officials don't encourage it. And there may not be enough room on the bus.

Couple fight for Sam, prepare for loss
The pair who adopted the 4 1/2-year-old as an infant want to spare him trauma if they lose him.

Play time? It's not in teachers' lesson plans
Teachers and administrators in Pinellas County say pressure to perform well on state tests is squeezing out time for holiday celebrations and other fun.

Tampa Bay briefs
Man gets 3 to 15 years in prison for shooting


South Pinellas headlines
  • NAACP chief faces challenge from board
  • Ex-legal staffer running for seat on City Council

  • North Pinellas headlines
  • City's utilities director resigns
  • Library foundation confident it can collect building funds
  • Genesis strives to get back on track
  • A well-earned badge of honor
  • Racers to carry well-run name
  • PINELLAS DIGEST
  • Largo should select park site for library
  • A plea to Largo police, drivers about dangers on stretch of Starkey
  • Auxiliary unit installs new officers
  • Military NewsNotes:
  • Seminole Briefs
  • For the Record
  • Achievers
  • Teach-in moves to Latin beat
  • Agent: Pinellas fruit untainted by arsenic

  • Hillsborough headlines
  • Distrust surrounds school vote
  • FDLE traces illegal funds contributed in 1996 race
  • Prescription for unhappy patients: patience
  • Committee asks Tampa to renegotiate land pact
  • County officials open shelters as cold snap moves through
  • County votes not to extend administrator's contract
  • Child injured when school bus hits car
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  • State's next problem: budget
  • Around the state
  • Women to take pro tem posts in Legislature
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